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Samantha Power also tells online Hay festival that former US administration underestimated how ‘ripped off’ Americans felt, and discounts possibility of Michelle Obama as vice-president Samantha Power speaks at the UN general assembly in 2016. Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP The US has shown “gross incompetence … at the highest levels” in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, […] More
Cartoonist Nick Anderson calls president ‘adolescent’ after work parodying bleach-injection claim sparked a legal manoeuvre Nick Anderson’s The Trump Cult cartoon. Photograph: Nick Anderson The Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Nick Anderson has described Donald Trump as an “adolescent wannabe authoritarian”, after the US president’s re-election campaign failed to pull one of Anderson’s cartoons mocking Trump’s inaccurate suggestion […] More
Trumpocalypse review: David Frum bushwhacks a new axis of evil The former George W Bush speechwriter thinks 21st-century conservatism has ‘delivered much more harm than good’ Donald Trump arrives to address a rally in Colorado Springs in February. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Nearly 100,000 Americans lie dead, almost 40 million people are out […] More
Molly Ball’s biography of the most powerful woman in American history is worthy of its subject Nancy Pelosi holds a press conference after the House passed Resolution 755, Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J Trump, in January. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images From her perch as speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has […] More
Amid the evasions and distortions lies evidence that Ralph Reed knows, really, that religion and politics can mix to noble ends – just not under this president Donald Trump prays at his desk in the Oval Office, as he participates in an Easter Blessing. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Ralph Reed, an evangelical leader […] More
A life of the fifth president makes interesting reading, not least for his warnings about foreign influence in the White House James Monroe, circa 1816. The last of the founding generation to be president, he bridged the Revolution with the first sectional conflicts of the Antebellum era. Photograph: Buyenlarge/Getty Images Why read a biography of […] More
The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has four essential rules for successful punditry: Those maxims have consistently made Krugman the most intelligent and the most useful New York Times pundit, at least since Frank Rich wrote his final must-read column 11 years ago. A new collection of Krugman’s pieces, therefore, is a timely reminder […] More
Interview Andrew Anthony Interview Michael Lewis: ‘Trump is like a psycho dad to America’ Andrew Anthony The uncannily prescient author of Moneyball explains how Trump’s ‘appallingly bad’ handling of the coronavirus outbreak could finally undo him Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, The Fifth Risk and the Big Short. Photograph: Cheese Scientist/Alamy Back in December, the […] More
