Every generation has to find its own balance between politics and law. The realm of politics is about who has power and who does not. The realm of law is about one species of that power: the use of ...

Historians will debate for ever and a day why the second Donald Trump government was so much more extreme than his first. So extreme that Trump’s second term, if unchecked, could launch a revolution ...

At the start of the summer, various articles appeared in the press bemoaning the ethnic composition of the population living in public housing in the UK, or even of London itself. I pushed back in a ...

In the acknowledgements to her book Nuclear War: A Scenario, shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, Annie Jacobsen writes: “Nuclear war is insane. Every person I interviewed ...

With wide shoulders and grey hair, Wael al-Dahdouh suits the nickname Al-Jabal, the mountain of Gaza. Throughout years of war reporting, Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in the Strip has been pictured in a ...

Zohran Mamdani has risen from nowhere to lead the race for New York mayor. Why is a Democratic party in crisis shunning him and his populist agenda?

Books and films informed our atomic nightmares during the Cold War. They are doing so again ...

In 1983, architect Peter Calthorpe gave up on San Francisco, where he had tried and failed to organise neighbourhood communities, and moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, a town on the San Francisco Bay ...

David King on COP30: ‘My fear is that the US will turn up’ The former UK climate adviser on Paris, his net zero doubts and why he’d prefer a United States no-show at the annual UN climate conference ...

Dominic Sandbrook is the author of “Never Had it So Good” (Abacus) and is finishing a book on the 1970s ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

If you’ve ever walked a city street so late at night that it’s very early in the morning, you may have been greeted by a strange and unbidden thought. In the eerie stillness, it can feel for a moment ...