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Could Zohran Mamdani’s policies provide a template for other American cities?
The Democratic mayoral candidate proposes radical policies to improve quality of life in America’s most expensive city, where bills continue to soar. Could New York become a welfare state model?
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What to expect from Japan’s ‘punk rock’ prime minister, Sanae Takaichi
Japan's newly elected leader of the ruling LDP party is primed to be the country’s next - and first female - Prime Minister, redefining national ambition as permanent overtime.
Macron faces political freefall after France’s shortest-ever government collapses
As Sébastien Lecornu’s record-short premiership ends in chaos, Macron faces mounting pressure to restore stability and contain the far right’s growing influence in France.
From pageants to politics: Erika Kirk’s rise as the new face of the Maga movement
Nothing makes a politician more potent – and palatable – than a strong dose of improbability. And no political figure in the US was as improbable as Erika Kirk. Barely a month ago, the…
Trump biographer Michael Wolff on the ‘moron’ president’s ‘incredible incompetence’
Trump’s second act is less a comeback than a test of the US system. This, at least, is the argument advanced by the author who has chronicled Trump’s rise, chaos and survival.
US mayors have a chance to keep the White House at bay – but they must be more vocal
The eternal internal conflict of the US is often delineated as between the federal government and the states. “States’ rights” regularly serve as a battle cry for the kind of conservatives – including, up…
Trump’s UK state visit: The true cost of glitz and glam diplomacy
Helicopters, motorcades and champagne banquets – Donald Trump’s second UK state visit was diplomacy at its most extravagant. But at what cost – and to whose benefit?
Corporate activism is melting under Trump 2.0. Ben & Jerry’s is the latest casualty
Jerry Greenfield’s exit from Ben & Jerry’s reflects a broader reckoning: socially minded business is struggling to survive in an era where activism is seen as a liability, not a strength.
Lula turns Bolsonaro’s downfall into a win for Brazil’s democracy
The fall of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s mercurial hard-right former president, came gradually and then suddenly. After a steady, years-long drip of revelations about his time in office and months of judicial procedures and hearings,…
