Opinion: Kamala Harris Has No Platform
Steven Methven
In all the excitement generated by the new Democratic nominee for US president, one thing seems to have dropped out of view, writes Steven Methven: the politics.
Tag: donald trump
Opinion: The Democrats’ Biden Problem Is Letting Trump Off the Hook
Ash Sarkar
With speculation about Joe Biden’s cognitive fitness for office, Donald Trump is getting away with more and more outlandish falsehoods, writes Ash Sarkar.
Opinion: ‘Jobs or the Environment’ Is a False Choice Deployed by the Right
Polly Smythe
This May Day, beware of rightwingers trying to pit the green of environmentalism against the red of socialism.
Obituary: Berlusconi Didn’t Pave the Way for Italian Fascism – Liberal Technocrats Did
Matteo Tiratelli
Far more dangerous than the tangerine tyrant was Italian liberals' response to him, writes Matteo Tiratelli.
Analysis: The IMF is About to Enforce Worldwide Austerity
Matteo Tiratelli
The International Monetary Fund’s loan-making power has made it a linchpin of the global economy, writes Matteo Tiratelli – power it’s about to use to impose another decade of murderous austerity.
Novara Live: Will Putin’s Donbas Escalation Lead to All Out War?
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Analysis: Western Elites Aren’t Mourning the Loss of Afghan Life, but of Their Own Power
David Wearing
The west has suffered another humiliating defeat in the bogus “war on terror”, writes David Wearing, and the warmongers aren’t taking it well.
Opinion: After Afghanistan, We Need a New Kind of Foreign Policy
Aaron Bastani
Afghanistan has shown that America isn't always right. Amid the wreckage of the failed war on terror, Britain must do away with the comforting fantasy of a benevolent USA and develop a different kind of foreign policy.
Analysis: Neoliberalism is Dead – and Something Even Worse is Taking Its Place
James Meadway
The Tories may have ditched austerity, but that doesn’t mean we’ve anything to celebrate, writes James Meadway.
Analysis: ‘America is Back’, Says Biden. What Does This Mean for the Rest of the World?
David Wearing
Today Joe Biden completes his first 100 days in the Oval Office. David Wearing takes a look at the president’s foreign policy so far, and argues that in terms of the threats posed by US power, the changes we're seeing are both meaningful and insufficient.
Opinion: Even Without the ‘Vaccine Bounce’, Boris Johnson Would Still Be Winning
Samuel Earle
Boris Johnson's catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic has led Britain to one of the highest death rates per capita in the world. But it hasn't lost him voters. In fact, he’s gained new ones. In the first of a new series on the Tories and power, Samuel Earle looks at how the prime minister gets away with it.
Novara Live: The Start of the Biden Era
The Trump presidency has ended and Joe Biden is in the White House. Is there now a chance to seriously reform the US?
Opinion: To Stop the Far Right, Biden Must Fight for the Average American
Micah Uetricht
When he enters the White House on Wednesday, Joe Biden will have a rare opportunity to push through a bold agenda that improves the lives of average Americans, writes Micah Uetricht. Failure to do so could mean handing the levers of government to a Republican far more destructive than Trump.
Opinion: This Was Always Going to Happen
Kim Kelly
This week's storming of the Capitol by the far-right should not come as a shock, writes Kim Kelly—and if anything, it will happen again.
Opinion: We’ll Always Have Paris?
Adrienne Buller
Joe Biden’s victory marks the end of four years of US climate denial and isolationism. But rather than celebrating a return to the glossy theatrics of diplomacy, we need to make ever stronger demands for climate justice on a global scale, argues Adrienne Buller.
Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class
Aurelien Mondon
The idea that Trump and Brexit were working-class revolts is a dangerous myth, one the president's recent electoral defeat has done little to dispel, writes Aurelien Mondon.
Opinion: Evil Without Villains: How Does the Left Challenge Empire After Trump?
David Wearing
Trump is out, and the world is demonstrably safer as a result. But the violence of liberal imperialism will return with a Biden presidency - and the left needs to work out how to fight it, argues David Wearing.
Opinion: Liberals Are Obsessed With Dominic Cummings Because It Lets Them Pretend Everything Else is OK
Aaron Bastani
In a world set to be increasingly defined by climate change, inequality, technological innovation and a crisis of elderly care, perceiving political outcomes as the result of bad people making bad decisions is an easy way out, argues Aaron Bastani.