The left after Trump - New Statesman
1 day ago · The American philosopher Michael Sandel and the French economist Thomas Piketty are among the world’s most influential political thinkers. In their writing on inequality and the moral limits of markets, both are critics of the neoliberal order that has governed the West for the past few decades, and of the capitalist system that has facilitated the savage iniquities of the global …
Donald Trump can stay popular - New Statesman
17 hours ago · I am not the first to speak of the Great American Vibe Shift. But in the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration it is important to remind ourselves: the arch-liberal pieties established in the 2010s have ebbed, and the dual bogeymen of the social conservative and the immigration hawk are no longer as toxic as they once were.
The peace paradox - New Statesman
1 day ago · The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing. By Yair Wallach The images that emerged on 19 January from Gaza and Israel felt like a much-longed-for reprieve. Three hostages, young Israeli women, were freed from Hamas captivity and united with their families in ...
Will the ceasefire last? - New Statesman
2 days ago · Trump has changed the calculus for Israel and the Middle East. By Bruno Maçães As the first phase of a long-awaited ceasefire and prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel began on 19 January, almost 500 days after the 7 October attacks, one question loomed over all others: will it last? The ...
How we misread The Great Gatsby - New Statesman
1 day ago · Between Manhattan and West Egg, where Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway live, spreads the “valley of ashes,” “a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through …
The return of Donald Trump - New Statesman
3 days ago · The inauguration is the crowning moment of Maga’s political resurrection. By Freddie Hayward Four years ago, the political establishment exiled Donald Trump from Washington in revulsion and fear over his supporters’ attack on the Capitol to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden’s election victory ...
How will Labour handle Trump 2.0? - New Statesman
3 days ago · But for Keir Starmer, the “special relationship” is now fraught with peril. Trump has declared “tariff” the most beautiful word in the dictionary; Elon Musk, who fantasises about ousting Starmer, is running a US government agency; Nigel Farage, who daily vows to become prime minister, is lionised by Trump as “Mr Brexit”.