Democrats aren’t doing enough to win over voters with their approach to tackling government accountability and corruption, as those issues take on greater salience. New polling from the center-left group Third Way and Impact Research, shared first with Semafor, found that voters trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats to reduce ...
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Iran complicates Iraq’s charm offensive in WashingtonIran complicates Iraq’s charm offensive in Washington
The News American and Saudi strikes on Iran-backed militias this week laid bare the dilemma at the heart of the Trump administration’s Iraq policy: Washington wants to pull Baghdad closer, but Iraq remains on the front lines of a widening confrontation with Iran. Following US-Saudi strikes in eastern Iraq, President ...
US hits dozens of targets in Iran overnight threatening peace effortsUS hits dozens of targets in Iran overnight threatening peace efforts
Central command says strikes were aimed at diminishing Iranian military while mediators insist talks ongoing Middle East crisis – live updates The US military has struck dozens of targets in Iran overnight in retaliation for Tehran’s attack on American forces in Jordan on Wednesday, sparking a further Iranian response and ...
College Republicans are fighting and the far right is benefiting: ‘It looks very childish’College Republicans are fighting and the far right is benefiting: ‘It looks very childish’
Tensions in the national party are trickling down to US college campuses, where a newer student group is rapidly outflanking longstanding moderate rivals When the Utah county clerk’s office announced last month that it was hiring Kai Schwemmer – an undergraduate at Brigham Young University and a rightwing influencer – ...
I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie ChallengerI’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger
To understand the experience of life, don’t look to the mind. Look to the body In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term “somatophobia” to describe the strange human delusion that we are minds rather than bodies. Forty years later, artificial intelligence is everywhere, offering ...
How Harlan Coben became the king of potboiler TVHow Harlan Coben became the king of potboiler TV
The prolific crime author’s latest Netflix thriller I Will Find You has become one of the streamer’s most-watched shows of all time – but what’s his secret? Netflix’s all-time top 10 English language series chart is starting to look like a stale old thing. It is topped by Wednesday, which ...
‘Kind of like a fairytale’: documentary tells the unusual tale of Flaco the Owl‘Kind of like a fairytale’: documentary tells the unusual tale of Flaco the Owl
Wild Inside looks back on the incredible year when an escaped zoo owl managed to bring New Yorkers together Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl gained a cult following after leaving his life in captivity at the Central Park zoo in 2023 and surviving, against all odds, for more than a year ...
Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander HurstEurope is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst
The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course Are we understanding it yet? As Europe burns in the west, the south and the north, are we grasping the fact that our economies, food systems, political ...
The body snatchers: how a young Nigerian man was lured to London in an organ-trafficking plotThe body snatchers: how a young Nigerian man was lured to London in an organ-trafficking plot
David Nwamini was working at a market in Lagos when he was given the chance to start anew in the UK. He had no idea what was expected of him in return • The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click here to order David Nwamini ...
A rain festival with no rain: the Indian farmers bracing for a ‘super’ El Niño as monsoon arrives lateA rain festival with no rain: the Indian farmers bracing for a ‘super’ El Niño as monsoon arrives late
Raja is normally a celebration of the start of the monsoon, but in the eastern state of Odisha, the rains came so late the seeds were sown under clear skies Kasturi Gamango and Pramila Sabar cannot contain their giggles as they explain one of the big attractions of the Raja ...