Politics

Can the State Be Trusted With the Death Penalty?

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‘This is state violence’: Paris students rage at politicians and heavy-handed policing

Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutality

Democrats upbeat as unpopular Trump imperils Republican midterm hopes

Polls show GOP candidates trailing Democrats in Senate races, and Republicans also struggling in House contests

The Battle for Hormuz Is Not the War

More oil is flowing through the strait, but that doesn’t mean the U.S. has won.

Zombie Originalism

Samuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant.

How have good or bad practices of hiring managers affected you in your job search?

Did you receive helpful feedback, or were you ghosted?

‘Using the presidency to line his pockets’: could claims of corruption fuel backlash against Trump?

Experts say president is vulnerable amid discontent over rising prices – and the US public has ample cause for complaint

‘They take our water, our soil’: protesters fight ‘foreignisation’ as Javier Milei encourages land sales in Argentina

The country’s far-right president is courting billionaire investors by removing a block on foreign ownership of land and natural resources

Student riots engulf France as far-right presidential frontrunner Le Pen vows fiscal turnaround

A teenager reportedly lost a hand in the protests, which have seen over 5,000 people arrested.

Spanberger is already making Virginia unaffordable

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) campaigned as a centrist who promised to make Virginia more affordable for families. But her existing energy policies are poised to make electricity more expensive for ratepayers next year, and the full energy plan she released last week would make energy more expensive for decades to come.

Trump suggests he would let Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego

Gavin Newsom calls comments ‘deranged and dangerous’ after president tells Nebraska rally: ‘They can take out a city’

‘A return to prison is always looming’: Iran Nobel laureate recounts torture in jail and hopes for the future

The human rights activist was severely beaten by security forces and denied medical care. In an interview with the Guardian, she discusses her shifting sense of identity and being a mother in jail