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?
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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.
Novara Live: Trump Is Over
Progressives are celebrating the end of Trump. What changes now? With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar, and Nelini Stamp, Anand Menon and David Wearing.
Downstream: Make America Normal Again. Interview With Adam Tooze
Joe Biden is President-elect of the United States. But what might his Presidency mean for working class Americans, US foreign policy and perceived national decline? Does his victory represent a return to political ‘normality’ after 4 years of the Trump White House? And what might Trump’s legacy be within the Republican Party? Joining Aaron Bastani […]
Opinion: Win or Lose, One Thing is Clear: Donald Trump’s Fascism is No Aberration
David Wearing
The US election is still too close to call. But this very fact makes one thing clear: Trump’s 2016 win was no fluke, but the expression of a formidable socio-political force that could take a generation to defeat, argues David Wearing.
Novara Live: Johnson’s Lockdown U-Turn
The Tories have been trashing the idea of a second English lockdown for weeks. They’ve finally implemented one in. But is it a month too late? With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
Opinion: How Will the US Election Outcome Impact the UK?
Anand Menon
On the eve of the US presidential election, how its outcome will affect the UK will hinge not only on who triumphs, but also on the ambitions of Boris Johnson's government, writes Anand Menon.
Novara Live: Trump Vs Biden: Round 2
With 10 days left to the US presidential election, last night’s debate was Trump’s final chance to shift the dial. Did Biden manage to close the deal? Ryan Grim joins Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar to discuss.
Analysis: What Will the Outcome of the US Election Mean for the American Left?
Micah Uetricht
With the US election looming, Micah Uetricht considers how a Biden or Trump presidency would impact the American left.
Novara Live: Circuit Breaker
Labour and SAGE are pushing for a circuit breaker lockdown to curtail the spread of Covid-19. But what would a “circuit breaker” really achieve? We ask Professor Karl Friston of Independent SAGE. Plus: Everything that’s wrong with the test and trace system, Micah Uetricht on Trump returning to the campaign trail, and a correction from […]
Opinion: Trump Thinks He Can Use His Coronavirus Diagnosis to His Advantage. He Can’t
Micah Uetricht
Trump's attempt to spin his coronavirus diagnosis to his advantage isn't working. Micah Uetricht explains why the president's illness is the worst-case scenario for him.
Novara Live: The Deadly Excel Error
Thousands were missed by test-and-trace because of an excel error. Will incompetence condemn Britain to a Second Covid Wave? Plus: Trump won’t isolate; Labour abstain on #SpyCops bill; and. Tory Party Conference. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
Novara Live: Trump Gets Corona
Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial discuss the bombshell news that Trump has coronavirus. Plus, pressure mounts on Margaret Perrier after breaking covid rules, the Julian Assange extradition hearing closes, the elites driving migrant prison ship plans.