How to topple a tyrant
We often discuss how strongmen rise to power. What about how they fall?
Politics & Conflict
What’s the point of politics?
Labour’s feud over child benefits points to a deeper question: how to balance strategy with doing the right thing
“Replace the House of Lords with a new House of the People”
Danny Sriskandarajah, author of "Power to the People", talks to us about how to revive Britain's democracy
Solidarity splinters
Opposing ideas about antisemitism threaten to split the anti-racist movement. A new book seeks to bridge the divides
Argentina’s gamble
President Milei has slashed inflation, while railroading rights and increasing poverty. Is his big bet worth the cost?
‘Justice for all Syrians’
Human rights defender Mansour Omari on joy, grief and the search for justice after the fall of Assad
Book review: “If I must die” by Refaat Alareer
This posthumous collection of writings serves as a personal record of the atrocities experienced in Gaza
The second coming of Donald J. Trump
To many evangelicals, Trump is not just a president but a messiah. How did he gain such mythic power, and where will it lead?
In a word: Coup
The latest from Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
Jaguar diplomacy
In Brazil’s tropical wetlands, ecotourism has forged an uneasy truce between cattle farmers and their old enemies