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In Deep review: Trump v intelligence – and Obama vs the people Pulitzer-winner David Rohde dismisses the Deep State theory – but also shows government does pursue entrenched interests Donald Trump speaks at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in January 2017. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images The 2016 election left the US gaping at a brewing […] More
Some people in the US seem surprised that a form of cultural chaos is spreading far more rapidly than the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19. It’s the predictable consequence of three convergent phenomena: American individualism, the confrontational forms of expression it takes through social media, and the belief that the freedoms listed in the Bill […] More
Using trophy animals as power symbols didn’t start with Tiger King. According to Mammoth author Chris Flynn, the American obsession dates back to the 1700s • Read more about Guardian Australia’s Unmissables series US presidents have always kept animals at the White House; Calvin Coolidge’s two lions were named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau. Photograph: […] More
Covid-19 proves it: unity is the only remedy for 21st century global crises Stephen Marche The problems of this century will be global and they will be intimate. Our culture of division cannot stand ‘In the 21st century, it is solidarity or death. That’s what we’ve been shown.’ Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters The phrase Generation X, […] More
What Mrs America gets right and what it gets wrong about 70s feminism Moira Donegan Mrs America gives Phyllis Schlafly a depth in fiction that was lacking in history but Shirley Chisholm is refreshingly portrayed as more than just a martyr Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly in the miniseries Mrs America, left, alongside the real […] More
The entertainment media cooperative considers itself a ‘post-capitalist’ streaming service – and a critical counterweight to rightwing media ‘The political stakes are becoming really, really clear that it is, as it always has been, a matter of life and death.’ Illustration: Guardian Design/The Guardian Naomi Burton and Nick Hayes met at a meeting for the […] More
EJ Dionne and Eitan Hersh offer complementary visions of how Democrats can achieve results by putting down their smartphones and taking real action Elizabeth Warren casts a shadow after a campaign Canvass Kick Off in Columbia, South Carolina in February. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters At what author EJ Dionne Jr accurately identifies as a “Code Red” […] More
‘What it means to be an American’: Abraham Lincoln and a nation divided Amid a new crisis, Ted Widmer’s book on the 16th president’s journey to Washington in 1861 may prove timely indeed Abraham Lincoln in a portrait by Matthew Brady, taken in December 1861. Photograph: Bettmann Archive Ted Widmer has published a book about […] More
