Opinion

Readers respond to articles on the Green party’s motionAs ever, Jonathan Freedland is on the money in his article (The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think, 3 October). As a non-religious Jew-ish Londoner, I am appalled at the passing of the motion to declare Zionism as a form of racism, and I am seriously considering leaving the Green party as a result.While I condemn the Israeli government’s actions against the Palestinian people, and I am n

Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s article on the sweet spot between quaint rural place names and nominative determinismHow could Adrian Chiles have overlooked Dorset, where quaint village-naming meets nominative determinism (From Bentley Pauncefoot to Yetts O’Muckhart, I’m obsessed with Britain’s weirdly named villages, 7 October)?The county is home to the three Matravers brothers: dark and cruel Langton, squandering the family fortune at the gambling tables; Worth, a one-nation Tory and local

The decision to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan is a sign of profound moral decay

Readers gasp at the news that their beloved columnist is leaving the Guardian after 25 yearsHow could you let this happen (It’s true: this is my final column. You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs, 2 October)? You have some truly great writers, and for them I will continue to support the Guardian, but it’s Marina Hyde’s column that many of us look forward to most. She is uniquely and reliably smart, funny and spot-on. Is it money? Like Nye Bevan with consultants, f

Susan Jones points out that an NHS-style system does not require either sales costs or shareholder profitsIn Dining across the divide (4 October), the young participant, Ted, is quoted as expressing his “desire to abolish the NHS and replace it with a social insurance model. This would still have provision for free treatment at the point of need, but people would pay through insurance systems, and they would choose the level of cover they’ve got. Those models deliver far better outcomes for pati

The computer scientist Arvind Narayanan explains that just because A.I. is intelligent doesn’t necessarily mean it’s powerful.

A new framework from United Family Advocates argues that federal child welfare financing requires significant reform to prioritize community-based support over the costly and harmful practice of separating families.

There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.

Nations are rediscovering choke points as a foreign policy strategy. They should use them sparingly.

Eric Hobsbawm was in Berlin when Adolf Hitler took power, in Paris at the Popular Front’s peak, and in the Communist Party when it all came down. Emile Chabal’s new biography follows a historian who always asked what remained possible after defeat.

Inside the weird campaign that could flip the Senate to the Democrats.

Canada, Norway and Ukraine convened the Pathways to Peace conference in Toronto on Sept. 28 and 29 to coordinate international efforts toward returning deported children, detained civilians and prisoners of war.

The latest example of the genre involves a retired 80-year-old top spook and the foreign intelligence agency’s chief of staff

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will spend $174 million over five years on "R3PEATS," a new initiative aimed at "strengthening replication and reproducibility" of NIH-funded research. The program, which NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya announced in a Science editorial and a press briefing in September, is the agency's answer to the 20-year-old observation that most published research findings are false. The initiative's name stands for "Rigor, Replicability, and Reproducibility to Promote E

Whether it’s Trump, Orbán or Vance, opening the fiscal purse to appease a grumbling public is a classic move made by history’s practitioners of clientelism.

(Photo illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock)IF YOU’VE SPENT MUCH TIME watching the NFL, college football, or Dancing with the Stars over the past week, or if you’re just an average political obsessive,1 you’ve probably noticed the taxpayer-funded ads from Donald Trump.They’re billed as “public service announcements,” and one of the spots features excerpts from a speech Trump gave at one of his 2024 campaign rallies. The speech

The Department of Justice is seeking to indict former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for “lying” to Congress about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to new reporting. The news comes years after The Federalist exclusively exposed Hutchinson for her contradictory claims on the subject. Punchbowl News’ Laura Weiss reported on Thursday claims […]

For decades, African countries' borrowing costs have been largely determined by major credit-rating agencies whose methods overlook key features of these economies' institutions and markets. The new Africa Credit Rating Agency could mark a turning point, challenging how the continent’s credit risk is graded and priced.

Many Israelis are hopeful that a new government would ease the growing distance between their country and the rest of the world.

Some commentators are claiming that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed once supported Medicare for All and now merely backs a “public option.” Matt Bruenig explains why this is not true.