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Donald Trump is now radioactive Original
Pretend I’m on the ballot, the president of the United States repeatedly told American voters over the last several weeks. Millions of voters did exactly that. Be careful what you wish for, my dude.
Donald Trump is now radioactive
Pretend I’m on the ballot, the president of the United States repeatedly told American voters over the last several weeks. Millions of voters did exactly that. Be careful what you wish for, my dude. The astonishing results of the 2026 midterm elections do not just represent a rebuke or a political setback for Donald Trump. Those neutral-sounding terms of art are not remotely adequate.
The dark paradox of Israel’s election — and ours
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The dark paradox of Israel’s election — and ours
Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t win last week’s election in Israel. But he didn’t exactly lose it either. The real loser may have been Israel’s fragile democracy, already corrupted from within, perhaps past the point of no return, by Netanyahu’s decades-long death-grip on power. On the eve of a momentous election in the United States, the parallels are both inexact and unavoidable. Israelis must now decide what kind of country they will have, or at least what kind they aspire to have.
Israel's election paradox — and ours
Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t win last week’s election in Israel. But he didn’t exactly lose it either. The real loser may have been Israel’s fragile democracy, already corrupted from within, perhaps past the point of no return, by Netanyahu’s decades-long death-grip on power. On the eve of a momentous election in the United States, the parallels are both inexact and unavoidable. Israelis must now decide what kind of country they will have, or at least what kind they aspire to have.
Why are young people so angry? Why isn’t everyone? Original
A specter is haunting Europe, and plenty of other places too. Nobody knows quite what to call it. It isn’t the specter of communism this time around, or at least not under that name — although something approaching class warfare, redefined in 21st-century terms, is on the agenda for the first time in decades.
Why are young people so angry?
A specter is haunting Europe, and plenty of other places too. Nobody knows quite what to call it. It isn’t the specter of communism this time around, or at least not under that name — although something approaching class warfare, redefined in 21st-century terms, is on the agenda for the first time in decades.
Even Europe’s far right is ready to dump Trump Original
When Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, he seemed like the leader, or at least the dominant figure, of a globalized version of the MAGA movement, a worldwide network of far-right parties sometimes described as the “nationalist international.” We can make a long list, starting with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France, the not-quite-neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany, or AfD, and Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, along with other previously-fringe...
Europe's far right is done with Trump
When Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, he seemed like the leader, or at least the dominant figure, of a globalized version of the MAGA movement, a worldwide network of far-right parties sometimes described as the “nationalist international.” We can make a long list, starting with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France, the not-quite-neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany, or AfD, and Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, along with other previously-fringe...
French students are in the streets. Donald Trump and Fox News are freaking out
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Manchester City’s cheating scandal isn’t really about soccer Original
The biggest scandal in the modern history of professional sports broke wide open across the Atlantic this past week. How much that reflects larger social, cultural and economic pathologies and whether it affects regular people’s lives in any meaningful way is a complicated question. At the very least, I would suggest that the Manchester City scandal, which has driven the already-overheated British media to new heights of hysteria, isn’t really about soccer or sports.
Trump rolls over for China’s panda gift
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Trump rolls over for China’s panda gift
Certain obvious questions arise from Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington this past week, a spectacle that one observer has described as "diplotainment" rather than actual diplomacy. Exactly how much did Donald Trump abase himself in service to a temporary and transactional friendship with the dictatorial leader of a nation that is, at least by conventional standards, America's principal strategic enemy? No one knows; I am tempted to surmise that Trump doesn't know himself.
Israel and Ireland wage a soccer war Original
Israel and the Republic of Ireland are engaged in an overheated war of words that has transformed a relatively minor sporting event into an ugly international incident, not to mention a symbol of rising tensions around Israel’s relationship with the rest of the world. Two soccer matches between those countries will apparently take place over the next three weeks, but under increasingly bizarre circumstances. It’s fair to say that most people in both nations wish they weren’t happening at all.
Trump’s Irish golf trip turns into a diplomatic headache Original
If Donald Trump is widely perceived at home as a sleepy, failing president trapped in crises of his own making and heading toward a midterm wipeout, his ability to command media attention and bewilder onlookers appeared undiminished during a two-day trip to Ireland this past weekend. This wasn’t even an official state visit, just another of the business-meets-pleasure excursions that have become routine during the Trump administrations, and that no previous president would have ever contemplated.
They’re done taking orders from Washington
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US allies’ dramatic Israel pivot: They’re done taking orders from Washington Original
It was a turning point in 21st-century history. Or it was an act of cynical political calculation. Heck, there’s no law that says it can’t be both. British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband took the floor in the House of Commons on Sept. 8 to deliver one of the most remarkable speeches heard there in many years. It wasn’t a magnetic performance; nobody’s likely to compare Miliband to Winston Churchill or Barack Obama as an orator.
Putin is testing Europe. How far will he go before war?
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Putin is testing Europe. How far will he go before war? Original
It’s always been a cop-out to blame the sinister influence of Vladimir Putin for the failings of liberal democracy. There is no serious evidence that Putin got Donald Trump elected the first time around, although he certainly liked the idea, and he isn’t responsible for the the conditions that led America and much of the Western world to Trump and his offshoots: economic inequality, political paralysis, disastrous foreign policy blunders and rising tensions around immigration and diversity.
Canada knows the US can’t be trusted. It’s ready to fight Original
Canadians have made it clear: They don’t want to become the 51st state. For the record, and despite the increasingly delusional geography lessons delivered by the Trump administration, actual Americans overwhelmingly agree. That’s without even dealing with the fact that Canada has 10 provinces and three territories, all with distinct identities, except perhaps for Saskatchewan. (Sorry! Joke!) So in the imaginary universe where this scenario plays out, aren’t we’re talking about 60 states or so?
What if the fascists win in Germany? Original
When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz finally rose to power in May 2025 after years of political failure and an inconclusive election, he already faced what looked like an impossible situation. He had Donald Trump on one side, a few months into an increasingly erratic and vindictive second term, and the rapid rise of the neofascist far right in Europe, and specifically the Nazi-curious Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, on the other.
Even MAGA loves socialism now Original
As you may have noticed, many members of the American media and political classes are currently rending their garments in terror and despair at the perceived threat of “socialism.” It’s not at all clear what that word means in 2026, in this context or any other. It only helps a little to observe that whatever “socialism” is supposed to refer to these days, it doesn’t have much to do with an economic or political system where the state or the working class control the means of production.
Trump’s FIFA pal in trouble as plan to sell off World Cup collapses Original
By most objective standards, the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament — which concluded two weeks ago in New Jersey with Spain’s grueling 1-0 victory over Argentina — was a major success.
Anthony Minghella, 1954-2008
English writer and director Anthony Minghella has died at age 54, according to various news reports. It’s a sad and early departure for one of the best-loved figures in the British film industry. Minghella was chairman of the British Film Institute, where he had vowed to stem the outflow of British talent to the United States. He won the 1997 best-director Oscar for “The English Patient,” an international hit that launched a new wave of high-gloss, star-studded literary adaptations.
Trump’s foreign policy enters its decadent, desperate end stage Original
It’s tough to find any semblance of a silver lining in the humiliating implosion of Donald Trump’s foreign policy over the last year, especially after a week that has brought us another escalation of the war no one supports, a recycled trade war with Canada, an out-of-nowhere nuclear deal with a country that should never have access to nuclear weapons, and yet more threats against a small nation that poses no threat to the United States.
Can Andy Burnham rescue Britain?
Perhaps that’s just as well. Scratch that; there’s no “perhaps” about it. As every single article about Burnham’s accession to power will inform you, he is now Britain’s seventh prime minister within the last 10 years, going back — not at all coincidentally — to the Brexit vote in 2016 that ended then-P.M. David Cameron’s career and sent the U.K. down the slippery slide into international irrelevance and permanent financial crisis.
Can seventh prime minister in 10 years save Britain?
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Starmer’s end: Can seventh prime minister in 10 years save Britain? Original
Witnessing the abrupt ending to a political career is never an edifying spectacle. Some defeated or disgraced leaders handle it better than others, but the level of ego inflation that leads people into electoral politics in the first place does not tend to be accompanied by grace or humility. Many Americans have spent most of the last decade fruitlessly longing for the final and conclusive downfall of our current president, as in the last act of an action thriller.
America abdicates as global superpower — and it’s about time Original
On a sweltering summer night in Cleveland 10 years ago, I witnessed Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the 2016 Republican convention — the “I alone can fix it” speech — and realized for the first time that he was likely to be elected president. Like many people in this business, I have too much ego invested in not being surprised by anything that happens, no matter how dire or ridiculous.
Can the worst World Cup ever find a way to redeem itself? Original
By the time this article appears on Salon, the men’s national teams of Mexico and South Africa will be almost ready to take the field — sorry, the pitch — at Mexico City’s cavernous Estadio Azteca for the opening match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Playing at home, at 7,300 feet above sea level and before 80,000 or so rabid supporters, El Tri will be heavily favored to win.
Do US Citizens Really Know How Much the World Hates Us?
Andrew O'Hehir | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service Billboard created by Grow Up Art in London, 13 May 2025 (Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) The global romance with the USA turned sour years ago. Now the world’s ready for a divorce. 31 May 2026 – A few days ago, I put one of my college-age children on a plane to Berlin, on the way to a month-long theater intensive. It was a wistful and exciting moment, a rite of passage for many privileged middle-class parents around this time of year.
Greg Bovino goes full fash: What a shock
It’s hardly breaking new ground to suggest that former U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, the man who led the Trump administration’s paramilitary assault on Minneapolis last winter, looks and acts like a fascist. But so much of American public discourse, over the last decade or so, has involved refusing to “observe the observable,” in Joan Didion’s famous phrase.
Remember Greg Bovino? He’s now an international fascist hero
It's hardly breaking new ground to suggest that former U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, the man who led the Trump administration's paramilitary assault on Minneapolis last winter, looks and acts like a fascist. But so much of American public discourse, over the last decade or so, has involved refusing to "observe the observable," in Joan Didion's famous phrase.
Remember Greg Bovino? He’s now an international fascist hero
It’s hardly breaking new ground to suggest that former U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, the man who led the Trump administration’s paramilitary assault on Minneapolis last winter, looks and acts like a fascist. But so much of American public discourse, over the last decade or so, has involved refusing to “observe the observable,” in Joan Didion’s famous phrase.
Do Americans Really Know How Much the World Hates Us?
The global romance with America turned sour years ago. Now the world's ready for a divorce A few days ago, I put one of my college-age children on a plane to Berlin, on the way to a month-long theater intensive. It was a wistful and exciting moment, a rite of passage for many privileged middle-class parents around this time of year.
Do Americans really know how much the world hates us? Original
A few days ago, I put one of my college-age children on a plane to Berlin, on the way to a month-long theater intensive. It was a wistful and exciting moment, a rite of passage for many privileged middle-class parents around this time of year. It felt like the kind of experience that’s supposed to remind you, amid the relentless passage of time and the chaotic info-jumble of contemporary life, to try to be fully present wherever you are.
Trump's Next Phony War: Cuba, Beware
What Iran war? In desperate search of a legacy, Trump goes after Cuba’s failing regime. It's sad on both sides From every imaginable point of view, the story of the Cuban revolution is a tragedy. How to make sense of that story is quite another matter. Like all tragedies, Cuba’s is haunted by unanswered questions, fatal mistakes and sliding-doors alternative possibilities.
Trump still wants a winnable war: Is Cuba next? Original
From every imaginable point of view, the story of the Cuban revolution is a tragedy. How to make sense of that story is quite another matter. Like all tragedies, Cuba’s is haunted by unanswered questions, fatal mistakes and sliding-doors alternative possibilities. As is customary in the genre, what we think of its protagonists is a subjective question, determined by perspective more than anything else.
Donald Trump wants to make China great again Original
So Donald Trump went to Beijing, and we didn’t even get a stupid T-shirt. If we had, it might have come with a purposefully incomprehensible slogan, absent any sound or fury but definitely signifying nothing. It might, for example, have featured the phrase “constructive strategic stability,” which is how Chinese President Xi Jinping describes a (marginally) improved relationship with the United States.
Keir Starmer looks doomed. But does anyone really want his job? Original
Britain’s embattled prime minister, Keir Starmer, faces a worsening political crisis that may force him from power, days after his ruling Labour Party suffered crushing losses in local and regional elections throughout England, Scotland and Wales. You could call this a startling reversal, given that Labour won an enormous parliamentary majority in the British general election less than two years ago.
UK politics descends into chaos: Is there a lesson for Democrats? Original
Last week’s local and regional elections across much of the United Kingdom — inevitably described as the “British midterms,” although the parallel is imprecise — delivered a world of hurt to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour Party, less than two years after they won a supposed landslide victory in the last national election.
An arch bigger than the Arc de Triomphe? Hitler wanted that too Original
It might be a bit too convenient, at this moment in history, to observe that failing tyrants, as they feel their power slipping away, start building grandiose monuments to themselves. But at least in the modern context, it’s not wrong.
Trump lost badly in Iran. How does he spin that as a win? Original
There is no way to sugarcoat the epic scale of America’s humiliation in Donald Trump’s disastrous and irrational war with Iran, or the damaging global effects that will endure years or decades into the future.
MAGA lost big in Hungary — but the battle for Europe isn’t over Original
It wasn’t a great week for the far right’s self-appointed crusade to reconquer Europe as a fairytale paradise of whiteness and Christianity. Maybe that’s because that whole idea is vaporware, rooted in a nonsensical social and historical vision and devoted to a losing battle against economic and demographic reality. But that quality of noble, doomed struggle toward impossible goals is both the far-right movement’s fundamental weakness and the source of its power and danger.
MAGA and Putin bet big on Hungary’s election. Will it pay off? Original
In an episode of MAGA gaslighting so absurd that the most avowedly neutral observers around the world found it irresistible, Vice President JD Vance visited Hungary last week to deliver a campaign speech for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. It was “disgraceful,” Vance said — in his patented sad-but-outraged mode, suggestive of a junior college debate team’s second-best performer — that “outside forces” were trying “to put their thumb on the scale” of Hungarian politics.
MAGA's big bet on Hungary backfires
In an episode of MAGA gaslighting so absurd that the most avowedly neutral observers around the world found it irresistible, Vice President JD Vance visited Hungary last week to deliver a campaign speech for that nation’s doomed Trumpian prime minister, Viktor Orbán. It was “disgraceful,” Vance said — in his patented sad-but-outraged mode, suggestive of a junior college debate team’s second-best performer — that “outside forces” were trying “to put their thumb on the scale” of Hungarian politics.
Why does the right hate the pope so much?
Pope Leo XIV holds the Easter candle at St. Peter's basilica in the Vatican, April 4, 2026. Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images My adult children and I amused ourselves recently with an absurd fictional scenario in which we reach Karl Marx by spectral telephone in the afterlife — where he is no doubt surprised to find himself — and try to explain that right-wing Americans of the 21st century, with no apparent sense of irony, sometimes accuse the pope of being a Marxist.
Why does the right hate the pope so much?
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Iran is right: Trump has already lost this war Original
More than 30 years ago, historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote that most young people in the late 20th century “grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in.” (Apparently an “intelligent American student” had asked him whether the phrase “Second World War” meant that there had been a first one.) That’s not the only moment in Hobsbawm’s 1994 book “The Age of Extremes” that now reads as uncanny.
Ireland’s leader survives visit with cranky old guy in White House Original
It could have gone worse, you’d have to say, for Irish Taoiseach (or prime minister) Micheál Martin, who made his ritual St. Patrick’s Day visit to the White House on Tuesday. But in this case, maybe not a whole lot worse. In fairness, Martin was no more than a bit player in his joint press conference alongside Donald Trump in the Oval Office, a fate shared by many of the president’s past visitors and many more to come.
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