Politics

Echoes of Brexit as Alberta blunders towards vote on separation from Canada

Like David Cameron in 2016, premier Danielle Smith is facing a mutinous party and has called a referendum about a referendum while vowing a ‘no’ vote

Netanyahu 'relieved' Israel's 'best friend' Donald Trump is safe but says little about Iran deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Donald Trump “the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House” as he spoke out Sunday morning against the shooting near the White House, but stayed mum on the current Iran peace deal.

The Democrats’ 2024 autopsy fails to confront the truth

The document is full of disclaimers and does not address fundamental issues, including Gaza and the Biden-to-Harris transition

Russia strikes Kyiv with hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile

Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and the surrounding region has been hit by a massive strike of Russian missiles and drones, including its powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile. It is the third time the nuclear-capable missile has been used in the war in Ukraine. The strikes on Sunday killed at least four people and left dozens injured

Suicide bombing in embattled Pakistan province kills 24, injures dozens more

An apparent car bombing rocked Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Sunday morning, killing at least 24 people and injuring around 70 more, according to officials.

The Man Behind the Trump Administration’s Favorite Psychedelic

W. Bryan Hubbard is the Republican psychedelics whisperer.

Russia hits Ukraine with hypersonic missile in one of the war's biggest attacks on Kyiv

The Oreshnik missile has a range of several thousand kilometers and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

UK judge’s decision not to jail boys for rape like a ‘rock in my face’, says victim, 16

Boys, aged 15, given youth rehabilitation orders for two separate attacks against two girls in Hampshire

India, U.S. discuss Middle East, trade as Rubio cites progress on Iran conflict

Successive U.S. administrations have sought to draw historically non-aligned India closer as a counterweight to rising Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific.

From Gilead to Ladyland: how the rebellious women of literature offer hope in dark times

After visiting an island brothel in Bangladesh, the novelist was inspired to write an imagined uprising. She explores the radical fictional worlds where women have the power

Bruce Springsteen is a model for how celebrities should resist Trump

His recent concerts are a thunderous call to fight for democracy. The nation could use more like him

Dining Across the Divide: ‘If We Decriminalise Drugs, I’m Scared Which Way the Population Will Go’

A student and a salesperson disagreed about drug policy and HS2, but would they see eye to eye on the Edward Colston statue?