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Les Hinton, who oversaw the Sun and the News and the World in the 2000s, has been speaking out about the lack of trust in the media

Deliver Me From Nowhere shows The Boss doing the work that politicians won’t – and telling the truth about a nation seduced by lies about itself

The Trumps have always used the threat of legal action to silence their critics. But in going after the journalist Michael Wolff they have made a big mistake

Students in the US believe the UK has a free speech problem and the vice president is spinning this myth as a reality

Satire has become one of the few sources of political sanity in the US. Now, one of its chief exponents is mulling a run for office

Conmen don’t win people over with arguments. Instead, they reflect their dreams back at them – and everyone’s a sucker for that

How 17th-century French pronunciation was taken across the Atlantic Ocean from northern and western France to North America

In 2016, American journalism failed to reach and serve certain audiences. The same problem is arising from Trump's second presidency

Peace is not just about bombs falling silent, but the humanity that goes into maintaining it

Ebs Burnough’s new documentary, Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, wants you to believe that we have more desire to communicate than social media will lead you to believe

Meridian Hill Park is a hub of progressive protest. It's home to everything Trump and his followers hate

Trump has forged a peace in Gaza – but his inability to influence Israel has undermined the US’s reputation and weakened its global alliances

The master’s new 1930s-set novel Shadow Ticket feels less like fiction and more like breaking news

As Trump tries to claim the arts for his elite, the Black feminist trailblazer makes the case for them belonging to everyone

Moisés Naím’s new book unpacks how these snake-oil shysters deceive the public

As Donald Trump knows, fear is a powerful tool in politics and makes people do dangerous things

ICE agents have brought fear and loathing to New York City - but the community is fighting back

The paper reported on Robin Williams's daughter's distress at AI images of her father - and illustrated it with plenty of them

The former political editor’s YouTube show is struggling to pull in the viewers

Trump and Kennedy want a simple answer to this very complex problem. And it must be an answer that fits their scepticism of much mainstream medicine

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Egged on by Trump and RFK Jr, a deadly blend of conspiracy theory and wellness woo-woo is going mainstream

Yarvin believes liberal democracy has failed and that monarchy should replace it. He just has absolutely no idea how to achieve this

The president’s wife is flogging baubles on her website for just $90 a pop

Just when America most needs dissenting voices, the comedian is retiring from his brilliant WTF podcast after 16 years

Melania’s holiday decorations are expensive, unapologetically Trump-branded and will cost you $465

Coded messages on the bullets that killed Charlie Kirk reveal a nihilistic, always online world where cynicism, violence and politics blur together – and meaning itself collapses.

From The Man From UNCLE to NCIS, the Scottish actor defied typecasting to become a global star and a fixture of television history

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has found organic carbon in Martian rocks – but scientists have warned against jumping to conclusions after previous false alarms

Winnie M Li’s novel brought back painful memories of sibling resentment and hurt