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John Wyndham's novel The Day of the Triffids has an arresting opening sentence: 'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there [...]

For some, this was meant to be Donald Trump's Gotterdammerung. Through nearly two years of meticulously secretive investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller was defined in the public consciousness as the [...]

I can tell you the exact moment Jeremy Corbyn lost me on anti-Semitism: when video surfaced of him saying Zionists '... having lived in this country for a very long [...]

What is news? Is it a commodity or a luxury item? Can you quantify it, or will only qualitative measures suffice? Can what made newspapers and journalism so crucial to [...]

By Nicky Woolf As she walked out into the glaring lights of the auditorium for the bikini round, Arielle Yuspeh could feel her sash slipping from her shoulder. By the [...]

Eddi Regolado still cries when he hears the national anthem: not that of his native Nicaragua, from which he fled with his family during the long civil war when he [...]

For 11 years, Stacie Steward commuted a hundred miles by car from Saginaw, Michigan, to the Sterling Heights Assembly plant outside Detroit, She is an electrician, in charge of maintaining [...]

For Marcus Ruiz Evans, Brexit was a political epiphany. 'Yes, the pound dropped, there has been a lot of hardship, I get that,' he conceded when we met one recent [...]

BZZZZT. You blink, and you're in the dark again. You don't remember where you are at first, but you'd guess it was in the dark. When it hits, it usually [...]

On the evening of 11 June, the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, didn't sleep. The following morning, two of the world's most volatile and unpredictable leaders--Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un--would [...]

Insomnia Marina Benjamin Scribe, 14.4pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling] 'If we insist on defining [insomnia] in terms of what it annuls, then how can we grasp the essence of what is [...]

On 17 June, Melania Trump released a statement. 'Mrs Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to [...]

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership James Comey Macmillan, 290 pp, 20 [pounds sterling] James Comey has been on a charm offensive of impressive scale. In the space of [...]

In the evening of 5 November, in the Brooklyn suburb of Park Slope, Bill de Blasio arrived at his victory party to an unusual tune. Political playlists are usually anodyne […]

0h! Aitch!' cried the crowd again and again, a sea of red. On the other side of the stadium, more fans--a mirror image in red--responded each time: 'Al! Oh!' This [...]

The Tsarnaev Brothers: the Road to a Modern Tragedy Masha Gessen Scribe, 274pp, 14.99 [pounds sterling] On 15 April 2013, two bombs made from pressure cookers, stuffed with gunpowder from [...]

Double Down: the Explosive Inside Account of the 2012 Presidential Election Mark Halperin and John Heilemann W H Allen, 499 pages, £20 As the sunset spread across the Ohio plains […]

An Atheist in the Foxhole Joe Muto Dutton Books, 336pp, $26.95 Fox News, launched by the former Nixon strategist Roger Ailes in 1996, now boasts a larger audience than its [...]

'A national political campaign,' the journalist H L Mencken once said, 'is better than the best circus ever heard of ' The circus is in town again. With the words' [...]

The article discusses opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump in relation to an investigation by U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller. Topics include a summary of Mueller's report by U.S. Attorney General William Barr, purported Russian government interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and U.S. public opinion on the report.

The author offers personal reflections on the controversy over allegations that British Labour Party politicians, including party leader Jeremy Corbyn, have expressed anti-Semitic views in relation to his own upbringing and beliefs as a Jewish citizen of Great Britain and his own concerns about Israeli policies toward Palestine.