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Luke Harding (“Click for regime change,” February)
Posturing behind “the people”
The populist insurgency is a veil—masking money and power
The Trump trap
By trying to ban us, the President is stopping me leaving
Labour pains
By-election jitters reflect a more profound loss of the party’s historic plot
The scary science of continental drift
Brexit is already hitting Britain in the brains
How Britain can still count after it quits
On foreign policy, 27+1 could add up to more than you might think
Candidate for a country at a crossroads
Emmanuel Macron is a French anti-Trump. But he is making the running
Reader’s block
Amid the frenzy of Beijing there is little room for the slow pleasures of the book
The Duel
Is the government’s city devolution agenda really a cover for cuts?
Is the government’s city devolution agenda really a
Speed data
A world going grey
Western societies have long worried about getting old—but, in time, there will be a dearth of workers in their prime across the planet as a whole
Features
Shooting the messengers
Trump rages at serious journalists who gave up on him before he began—reflecting a divided America whose two tribes have given up listening to each other
High crimes, low odds
You’re never going to oust Trump using the law—unless the politics turns
Trumpeting a global trade war
The US underpinned the liberal economic order. So what now in a world of America First?
War of attrition
The right to abortion has long been under assault in many individual American states. Now Donald Trump’s Washington is joining in the attack
Brief encounter
Experimental psychologist
Take back control
We’re being asked to pre-commit to a pig-in-a-poke Brexit. Here’s how we can retain a free hand
Don’t care was made to care
The priority for fixing the NHS isn’t more cash for hospitals, but supporting the frail at home
May’s way
The prime minister has clambered up the greasy pole in a stealthy style of her own. Don’t imagine she’ll be easy to dislodge from the top
Getting it together
Having teased out democracy’s paradoxes, Amartya Sen is keeping his cool as politics runs wild
Spooked
Spies see everything, and they’ve seen everything before. Except Donald Trump
Silence in court
Open justice let the light in on rendition; secret rulings will prevent us learning those lessons
The vision thing
Roger Penrose is still defining the way we see the universe. But, in today’s world of ultra-specialised science, could a thinker of such breadth ever emerge again?
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Minuting the frenzy
In Whitehall one person above all has a ringside seat watching the shambles at the heart of government, finds Sue Cameron
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