Texas – where big money politics and culture war fearmongering went to die
The Republicans pushed ant-trans messages and took nearly half a billion dollars from Musk in campaign finance – but it didn’t work
Politics
Trump hands GOP presidential hopefuls the biggest political shit-sandwich of all time
But even so, the race for the republican nomination for 2028 is under way, and the extremists, the devoted MAGA-ites – and even JD Vance – are all running
Beating Trump isn’t the wild triumph you all seem to think
MAGA’s defeat will mean nothing until we understand what caused Trumpism and how to stop it breaking out again
The White House on results night – the grimmest watch party in history
The day after, we saw something new and unnerving – a conciliatory Trump, who congratulated the Democrats on their win. Just what is he up to?
Kid Rock, gold wheelbarrows and a bigger recount: How Trump and his inner circle spent election night in his half-built ballroom
The president settled back on his gold throne to enjoy the night. Then the results started coming in…
Watching the fall of Trump with New York’s MAGA hardcore
At the start of the evening, the bartender poured stingily. Once the results came in, I got a full cup – “we’ve got to drown our sorrows, right?” he said
The awkward friends of Berlin’s aspiring mayor
Elif Eralp’s attempt to censor her interview remarks about a Hamas sympathiser has spectacularly backfired
How Trump and bad luck finished off Pedro Sánchez
Despite Spain having the best economic performance in the Eurozone, the Spanish PM was never going to get out of this one
Can Serbia’s revolution without a leader actually work?
The Student List movement has ousted populist ‘Superman’ Aleksandar Vučić. Now comes the hard part
The French police’s protest crackdown has crossed a line
A witness who saw a 17-year-old boy’s hand blown off by a grenade says a generation will grow up having learned not to trust the authorities
When I think of President Le Pen, I suddenly struggle to breathe
The fiery protests across France didn’t shake me. The thought of the next election does
Who will win the battle of the €1.8 trillion EU budget?
Brussels wants a deal done fast before a probable Le Pen victory in France – but unrealistic spending proposals make that unlikely
The Conservatives get their net zero figures wrong… by nearly £500 billion
The party’s flagship policy document managed to double the actual cost of meeting net zero targets – by counting figures twice
Letter of the week: We have everything we need to fight the climate crisis
Write to letters@thenewworld.co.uk to have your views voiced in the magazine
The 60% problem: Why a hotter climate is a crisis for the UK economy
Drought is hitting British farms just as war and supply shocks make our food supplies more vulnerable
Andrew Neil, the wally with the brolly
The broadcaster posted an umbrella emoji as he mocked those predicting a scorching summer
Reform’s farmers are feeling the heat
As the fifth heatwave in four months blasts Britain, even Nigel Farage’s climate science deniers are struggling
Jeremy Clarkson reaps what he sows (literally)
The TV farmer worries that his harvest is ‘fucked’. Has he met the Sunday Times columnist who has rubbished all efforts to combat climate change?
How the iPod helped ruin everything
Apple’s music player was a beautiful design triumph, but its impact on our lives has been deeply damaging
The great crypto con is finally falling apart
The North Korean hackers have exposed the so-called ‘people’s currency’ as an emblem of the hollowness of 21st-century speculation – promising riches while offering nothing tangible in return
It might not look like it, but a motoring miracle has now happened
The cars on the road might seem familiar. But forget about them – the future of driving now looks radically different
The ad industry knows it’s funding online hate – so why won’t it act?
Anti-immigrant vitriol, misogyny and conspiracy theories are making people rich, but whistleblowers say they’re all seen as “the cost of doing business” with tech giants
His dad tried to overthrow Putin – now Pavel Prigozhin runs an African country
After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed mutiny and mysterious death, his son inherited a slimmed-down version of the Wagner Group – and it’s thriving again
The chancellor’s impossible budget
John Healey needs to find a huge amount of money – but he can’t cut welfare or put up taxes on ‘working people’. So what options does the chancellor actually have?
Meet the woman who won’t back down from Trump
Why one of the world’s leading economists says AI doesn’t add up
Bonnie Garmus: ‘Donald Trump would not understand my book’
The woman who’s seen the end of America
Why Slavoj Žižek probably hates you
Why Ruth Ellis still haunts us
James Ellroy still wants to fight you
