The return of the Trump doctrine - New Statesman
1 day ago · Trump will return to the White House older, if not necessarily wiser, but without any evident need to pacify the establishment figures who were so hostile to his re-election. The experience of his first term left Trump suspicious of government bureaucracy and the FBI, CIA, and the military.
Donald Trump is right. There is a “swamp”, but it’s the left ...
1 day ago · There is a “swamp”, but it’s the left that must drain it - New Statesman. US Election 2024. 11 November 2024. Donald Trump is right. There is a “swamp”, but it’s the left that must drain it. The left needs an agenda to reinvent the failing state. By Peter Hyman. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. In every conversation I had ...
England’s revolt against change - New Statesman
1 day ago · In 2011, a riot in Tottenham, North London, following the shooting of Mark Duggan by police, quickly spread across the cities of England. The average age of the rioters prosecuted was sixteen. It was a multi-ethnic, adolescent revolt. David Cameron’s coalition government launched no inquiry into its causes.
Bernie Sanders crashes Kamala Harris’s stubborn farewell ...
5 days ago · Kamala Harris’s favourite spot when she studied at Howard University in the 1980s was a large, grass-covered area in the middle of campus called the Yard. She would stand there and watch the musicians playing instruments and the medics leaving the lab, the students laughing together. “That was the beauty of Howard,” she wrote in her memoir.
The revenge of Donald Trump - New Statesman
5 days ago · The revenge of Donald Trump. Americans know who he is. They voted to elect him anyway. By Katie Stallard. Photo by Brian Snyder / Reuters. In the end, it was not close. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Donald Trump declared as he claimed victory in the early hours of 6 November at his campaign headquarters in ...
The collapse of Germany’s government - New Statesman
5 days ago · On the day Donald Trump was elected, the German coalition government collapsed, a decision that condemns the country to a political vacuum that could last for eight or nine months. If you want to know how Europe reacts to Trump, this is your answer: no statesmanship, no coordination, and pettiness. Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister ...
The great American rupture - New Statesman
5 days ago · The 81-year-old Mr Biden’s presidential debate performance combined tragedy with farce. Having long tolerated his mental decline, the Democrats lay exposed. If any candidate could defy these odds it was not Ms Harris. As the vice-president she was irrevocably tied to the Democrats’ record.