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
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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
Mainstream American conservative icons Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania – who inspired Trump’s assault on diversity – were bankrolled by the funder of a Nazi eugenics foundation
The former senior diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall sees signs of Trumpist culture wars and a woeful lack of realism in the opposition leader's foreign policy set piece speech