Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Prospects for the US: Normal is broken
GLYN ROBBINS reports from a trip to the US where the Democratic Socialists of America are looking to bolster Bernie Sanders’s campaign
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) party activists in New York City
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
EIGHTEEN months from an election that threatens four more years of Donald Trump, US politics is in a state of flux, with many similarities to — and lessons for — Britain.
The political Establishment is disintegrating. In the words of Pete Buttigieg, one of the 23 candidates for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, “Normal is broken.”
This opens huge opportunities for the left. But during a recent visit, I saw few signs of the unified campaign necessary to reverse the deep political disillusionment Trump has exploited.
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