United States
Reining in the police: Action or cop-out?
The aftermath of George Floyd’s death is a Me Too moment for race relations and the law enforcement agencies
Return of the dragon
China’s Covid belligerence will only isolate it further
The man who exposed the watchers
David J. Garrow reviews Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State, by Barton Gellman
Does peak infection sync with lockdown enforcement?
The lockdown logic’s basic arithmetic doesn’t add up
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
