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Politics
Dreaming about being a statesman is one thing; being one is quite another
Daniel DePetris
Book Review
Maureen Callahan challenges us to ask whether our American heroes are really who we think they are
Josie Cox
The US government wants to avoid the war that Ukrainian membership would oblige it to fight
Owen Matthews
Middle East
To be the Israeli Bismarck is no mean feat. But there may be a sting in Bibi’s tail
Niall Ferguson and Jay Mens
Diary
One party seems to have been swallowed by its candidate; the other candidate appears to have been swallowed by her party
Andrew Sullivan
How, for instance, can small daily rituals be programmed?
Slavoj Žižek
Nearly all Hamas’s senior leaders are dead. What comes next?
Charles Lipson
Fraught times on the ground in the West Bank
Fin DePencier
China
The Chinese Communist Party is keen to foster the antagonism
Cindy Yu
Campaign 2024
Bret Baier politely took no prisoners
Teresa Mull
The former president abused John Micklethwait for asking perfectly reasonable questions
Freddy Gray
Depictions of sex in cinema have collapsed
Gareth Roberts
This is a fashion series made by people who hate fashion
James Delingpole
Abbasi’s heady weaving of the antic and the deadly serious may explain some of the criticism that’s been leveled at the film
Laura Allsop
Perhaps the Chicago White Sox’s swift decline was not the result of a calculated scheme but rather a classic case of Murphy’s Law
Ryan Spaeder
How she shaped the range of works that hang in the Mumbai House
Amy Rose Everett
They’re the perfect tool for a politician: they make complex issues look simple
Michael Simmons
Revisionism, even for pirates, has its limits
Melanie McDonagh
Consider the ancient Greek understanding of the natural world
Peter Jones
It was clearly inspired by satirical American and British shows about politics
Entrances and Exits shows the Seinfeld actor’s clever, energetic, dissatisfied, self-critical mind at work
Christopher Sandford
Film
The notorious film may be the most expensive, most unpleasant adult movie ever made
Alexander Larman
The novel’s central conceit serves as a sharp satire of our data-driven, algorithmic age
Sam Forster
In Elaine, Self has shown that understanding is possible, across generations and across time
Philip Womack
David Browne’s latest book pivots around 1961
Philip Clark