US Politics

If liberal centrists on both sides of the Atlantic simply keep waiting for politics to return to "normal" they risk a very rude awakening, argues Neal Lawson

If Europeans come from Venus, Peter Jukes observes, it’s only because they are aware (unlike Elon Musk) of the bleak devastation of Mars

Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities

Former EU Trade Negotiator John Clarke on how to counter the method behind the madness of current US trade policy

For all its chaos in operation, Trump's regime has a strategic rationale and must be fought strategically, argues Jon Bloomfield

In his regular dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York explains how US actions feel like a complete betrayal in the interests of Putin

Keir Starmer's attempts to be an "honest broker" with Donald Trump are doomed to failure, argues Adam Bienkov

With the increasingly bizarre compliance of the US President to the Russian President, Zarina Zabrisky wonders if the KGB/FSB tradition of assassination and mafia-style intimidation may be key

With the US potentially allied to Russia over the fate of Ukraine, there needs to be a root and branch rethinking of British and European security

There is a concerted global effort to undermine the very concept of evidence-based policy and scientific progress, argues Kit Yates