Emily Maitlis’s diary: The Democrat who’d rather see Trump win if it means El-Sayed losing
The would-be first Muslim Senator’s Michigan midterms campaign was shocked by Haley Stevens’ defection. But it might have done him a favour after all
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These are Reform’s five cruellest ideas
Nigel Farage’s party is relentlessly nasty when it comes to disabled people. In their total dismissal of people who are different, they reveal who they really are
How Abdul El-Sayed became the man who can break Trump
The candidate who was supposed to be a liability is taking the fight to MAGA in Michigan
If you feel sorry for private landlords after the Budget, try renting from one
They may be facing a tax squeeze, but trust me, their tenants have had a rougher deal
The billionaires who can switch off a war
Elon Musk’s decision to intervene in the Ukraine v Russia war shows Europe must build alternatives to military tech run by US private companies
We know Burnham wants to rejoin Europe. We know why. But how?
The prime minister’s enthusiasm for a return to the heart of the continent masks a whole series of unanswered questions
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
What happens to Trump if he loses the midterms?
Hegseth and Wiles out, more bombing of Iran and constant griping about election interference are all on the agenda
Meet the woman who won’t back down from Trump
Deep in MAGA country, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is facing huge financial disadvantage – but she’s still ahead
The Budget that smelled like an early election
John Healey’s “breathing space” package of affordable giveaways left big decisions unresolved – perhaps for a national vote soon
Help! Am I becoming an election bore?
I used to have normal hobbies, but in a world where everything is connected, I can’t take my eyes off global voting
Will Israel’s opposition dare break the Arab taboo to kick Netanyahu out?
By any normal standards, he has been roundly defeated. But Eisenkot may reject a controversial coalition that would end his reign
It’s time for Burnham to kill off old Labour
The original meaning of “socialism” has been lost – that’s all Marx’s fault. Fixing the misunderstanding inside Labour would be painful, but worth it
Can Serbia’s revolution without a leader actually work?
The Student List movement has ousted populist ‘Superman’ Aleksandar Vučić. Now comes the hard part
Forget the Terminator – the age of AI weaponry is already here
It’s not like the movies, when the robots suddenly become sentient. It’s more gradual than that – which makes it far more dangerous
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
Only a lunatic would escalate the war in Iran – and that lunatic is Donald Trump
Rumours say the president would respond to midterm humiliation by scaling up a conflict that would risk more American lives and more economic pain
Liz Truss’s new mini-book is every bit as bad as her mini-budget
BANK JOB – the crazy capitals are hers – is full of conspiracy theory, but zero self-awareness
Andy Burnham thinks he has found Britain’s Brexit escape route
The PM is kite-flying over free movement – by suggesting immigration is worse under our EU deal than if the UK was in the single market
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
Brazil and Serbia have shown hope is possible – Israel and America, it’s you next
Defeats for Bolsonaro and Vučić feel seismic as the midterms approach and Netanyahu’s fate hangs in the balance
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
Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder
Reform’s leader told US far right influencer Benny Johnson that NGOs who work with asylum seekers have ‘aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way’
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
What would a National Care Service actually look like?
It’s a welcome idea for a huge societal problem. But it’s still not clear how a service of this kind would work – or how it would be paid for
The Bad Boys of Brexit are back, the reunion no-one wanted
Nigel Farage is threatening to reform the superannuated punks who fought the 2016 referendum. Bring it on
‘The deep state stole my mini-budget’: An exclusive extract from Liz Truss’s new book
The short-lived PM’s Bank Job reveals how everything bad was actually someone else’s fault
Is this the moment MeToo died?
The movement seemed to have changed the world. But unchecked online hate and cases like the Cornell 7 means we are now back at square one
I went looking for Trump’s America – this is what I found
Driving through the US southern states on a Harley-Davidson offers lessons in hospitality – and also in why so many vote against their own best interests
Britain’s vengeful press will never forgive Prince Harry – and they want the royals to hate him too
The overreaction to his GQ interview exposes the hypocrisy of papers who urge him to shut up but won’t stop writing about him if he does
Burnham’s NEET plan is doomed because of one fatal flaw
Politicians love apprenticeships. It’s a shame most young people don’t – they’d rather experience university life
The truth that Northern Ireland has never confronted
The annual crisis over Protestant marches might have been avoided had we followed Mandela’s example
Emily Maitlis’s diary: Why are we turning away the people who could make Britain richer?
Our national obsession with immigration – and the pejorative language we use about it – has got to change
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?
Letter of the week: MAGA are on the road to hell
Write to letters@thenewworld.co.uk to have your views voiced in the magazine
The Indian PM’s plan that takes voter interference to its logical conclusion
Narendra Modi has a plan for winning the next election – and the thousands of demonstrators on the streets don’t like it one bit
18 things that will absolutely, definitely happen if Trump gets whopped in the midterms
New Musk-run voting machines, Kansas ruled not a real state and Hegseth to face a firing squad… is this America’s future?
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
Trump, Putin and the ‘peacemakers’ who make war more likely
The comforting idea that we can understand and persuade our enemies is leading the world towards disaster
Burnham’s hard road to hope
The PM’s first budget must show the meaning behind his mantra – by challenging us to be citizens rather than impatient observers
EXCLUSIVE: How to survive a political crisis
In an exclusive extract from his brilliant new book Persevilience, Alastair Campbell reflects on his time at the heart of the New Labour media operation, and what it taught him
EXCLUSIVE: The power of talking to dead people
In an exclusive extract from his brilliant new book Persevilience, Alastair Campbell writes how our parents, friends and colleagues pass away – but the advice we think they would give us lives on
Fighting UK crime on the Cambodian border
Fraud counts for 50% of all UK crime, and a large amount originates from overseas. But the victims aren’t just the westerners who lose their money
The Brexit majority has gone for ever – rejoin now has a majority of 9 million
The polls are clear – an overwhelming number of voters want to rejoin the EU. Millions of Brexit voters have died and the young want to get back in
The riots in France are being stoked by Russia and Iran
The original complaints about school conditions have been completely lost in a mess of competing political interests, many of which are being driven from abroad
The mask has slipped – now we can see the real, shameful face of Reform
ITV’s documentary reveals the party as a hotbed of racists baying for concentration camps and executions
Why one of the world’s leading economists says AI doesn’t add up
The PM’s former advisor isn’t convinced by the bargain the AI companies are offering. They stand to make trillions: but what do we get in return?
If Flávio Bolsonaro wins the presidential election, Brazil loses
Son of the extremist former president Jair Bolsonaro, Flávio offers more of the same culture war, Trumpy chaos. It is the country that will bear the brunt – again
RFK Jr’s anti-vax gamble with African babies’ lives is an experiment in cruelty
A Guinea-Bissau medical aims to investigate side effects that decades of research have failed to find
The moral depravity of Robert Jenrick
A high-profile English politician proposes the idea of killing immigrants in the English Channel. How has it come to this?