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2 days ago · Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine. By New Statesman Thomas Piketty, taking the longer historical and …

4 days ago · The lawsuits have already started. Within hours of Trump signing the order on birthright citizenship, immigrant rights advocates had already filed suit against the government …

2 days ago · This anxiety resurfaced this week after the debut of a new large language model, an AI chatbot called DeepSeek developed by a Chinese company; it was referred to by the …

2 days ago · So Reform’s lead comes from two places. First, there is a huge level of apathy among the electorate. Almost one million of those who voted Conservative in July say they’re …

Jan 22, 2025 · The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing. By Yair Wallach The images that emerged on 19 January from Gaza and Israel felt like a …

3 days ago · The Holocaust continues to haunt our politics. But slurring our opponents as Hitlers is not the way to defeat them. By Andrew Marr This starts with an excessively fair-minded, …

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Jan 21, 2025 · Trump has changed the calculus for Israel and the Middle East. By Bruno Maçães As the first phase of a long-awaited ceasefire and prisoner exchange between Hamas and …

Nov 20, 2024 · The crucial question now is how Putin will respond. The Russian president has warned explicitly in recent months that if the US and its Nato allies allowed their missiles to be …