In just one year, book bans in the US have increased by a third – largely targeted at works containing content on LGBTQ+ rights, race and racism, physical abuse, grief and death
US Politics
The spurious Republican inquiry treads the same treacherous ground of Russian propaganda exposed in the impeachment of Trump
History repeats itself, the first time as hope, the second time as dread. In a preface to the 2002 reissue of her classic work on the fear of bodily pollution, first published in 1966, the anthropologist Mary Douglas wrote: When I was writing Purity and Danger I had no idea that soon the fear of […]
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Something even worse than government run by politicians is government run by politics, writes AC Grayling
Big questions remain about Russia's attempts to interfere in US elections
One of the key elements of the Georgia false statement criminal statute is 'knowing' misrepresentations are false
The Fulton Country District Attorney is looking at the same facts as the federal indictment, but under different laws and with the potential for new uninvestigated evidence
Former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall, who now lives in the US, explores which country has been on the bigger self-destruct mission
A conversation on current US politics with Thomas Frank.
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Russia's use of cluster bombs is leaving Ukraine fighting sub-optimally against a weapon it doesn’t have, writes Brian Latham