This is what autocracy looks like
Since Donald Trump was elected again, I’ve feared one scenario above all others: that he’d call out the military against people protesting his mass deportations, putting America on the road to...
Musk’s legacy is disease, starvation and death
There is an Elon Musk post on X, his social media platform, that should define his legacy. “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” he wrote on February 3. He could have “gone...
Britain’s conservatives are imploding
Uxbridge is a middle-class place, stodgy but diversifying, whose voters are squeezed by a cost of living crisis and anxious about rising public disorder. Until last month, it was represented by Boris...
A warning of what’s to come
Thank goodness Speaker Kevin McCarthy has created a House subcommittee on the weaponisation of the federal government!Last week, The New York Times reported on an outrageous example of such...
Why Ukrainians believe they can win
I met Volodymyr Yermolenko, a Ukrainian philosopher and the chief editor of UkraineWorld, an English-language news site, in Kyiv in 2019.I’d gone there to report on how Ukrainians felt about Donald...