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Donald Trump can stay popular - New Statesman
4 days ago · I am not the first to speak of the Great American Vibe Shift. But in the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration it is important to remind ourselves: the arch-liberal pieties established in the 2010s have ebbed, and the dual bogeymen of the social conservative and the immigration hawk are no longer as toxic as they once were. Trump won in 2016 on a tight margin and an uneasy anti-establishment ...
The peace paradox - New Statesman
5 days ago · The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing. By Yair Wallach The images that emerged on 19 January from Gaza and Israel felt like a much-longed-for reprieve. Three hostages, young Israeli women, were freed from Hamas captivity and united with their families in ...
America’s new plutocracy - New Statesman
Jan 15, 2025 · The Belgian-Dutch philosopher Ingrid Robeyns describes this as “plutocracy on steroids”. In her recent book, Limitarianism, Robeyns charts the concentration of extreme wealth over the past four decades.The super-rich, she told me, “have benefited tremendously from the economic choices” made in Western countries since economic policy changed in the late 1970s – “financialisation ...
Will the ceasefire last? - New Statesman
6 days ago · Trump has changed the calculus for Israel and the Middle East. By Bruno Maçães As the first phase of a long-awaited ceasefire and prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel began on 19 January, almost 500 days after the 7 October attacks, one question loomed over all others: will it last? The ...
Has Biden buried the American left? - New Statesman
Jan 20, 2025 · Has Biden buried the American left? Scattered and listless, the movement this defeated president leaves behind must regroup quickly. By Justin H Vassallo In his farewell address last week, Joe Biden tried once more to summon the gravitas that eluded his presidency when he warned that “an oligarchy ...
US - New Statesman
Has Biden buried the American left? Scattered and listless, the movement this defeated president leaves behind must regroup quickly. By Justin H Vassallo The return of Donald Trump
The combat zone - New Statesman
Nov 20, 2024 · The crucial question now is how Putin will respond. The Russian president has warned explicitly in recent months that if the US and its Nato allies allowed their missiles to be used to strike his territory, it would mean they were “at war with Russia”.
Cover Story - New Statesman
Inside the mind of the billionaire at the heart of American power. Donald Trump’s second term will hasten American decline, at a time when Russia and China are also in crisis. How a demagogue remade the Republican Party and transformed US politics. For Democrats, the summer’s “politics of …
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The New Statesman is the leading progressive political and cultural magazine in the United Kingdom. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, the New Statesman has notably recognised and published new writers and critics, as well as encouraged notable careers.