PERSPECTIVES

By MATTHEW ALEXANDER After 36 years in the Senate, 8 years as Vice President and 4 attempts to become President, Joe Biden seems set to...

BY ARTHUR KLEINMAN For the Middle East, the current moment is a foreboding one. With a number Arab states riven by conflict – in most...

By LILY MECKEL Early voting has begun in several states around the USA for the most significant elections in US history taking place on...

Book review by NOAH KEATE In a parallel universe, where Brexit and coronavirus never happened, housing would be one of the big policy...

By FABIAN TIGGES In 2020, we are not only witnessing the historic Covid-19 pandemic, but are experiencing a great, widespread, deeply...

ANDREW DOVER reviews What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer Every election has its iconic debate and campaign...

By TERESA TURKHEIMER Conversations about race - whether it be with family at the dinner table, friends, or colleagues at work - are now...

By ISHRAQ SUBHAN In September, Barbados announced that it would remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and become a republic. This...

By DOMINIC GILONIS In one of his final speeches to the Reichstag, the German statesman Otto von Bismarck compared Europe to a powder keg....

By ADAM GRAVELY He dubbed it “a blessing from God”. He said he now has a “protective glow” of immunity. And less than two weeks after...