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What can the exploits of the Roys tell us about a real-world media empire?

The Fox News host said during his interview with Nigel Farage that contracting Covid had, like others, emasculated, weakened and feminised Boris Johnson. But becoming feminine is not a synonym for weakness, nor has it got anything to do with the virus.

Sending Anne-Marie Trevelyan to win over Joe Biden is laughable, and illogical.

Joe Biden’s possible successor is the real success story of this administration.

Aspects of the show depicting the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affair seem so odd, different and plainly wrong that it feels like science fiction.

CHARLIE CONNELLY on new efforts by the US right to burn or ban books they consider dangerous.

Americans are set to spend $1billion dollars on this year's Thanksgiving, but the celebration is not without its problems and there are those who want it replaced by a day of atonement.

The film adaptation of Nella Larsen's novel is a sumptuous and seductive tale of segregation.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL's weekly diary looks at how 'Global Britain' exists as just a slogan.

Employees are quitting their jobs, of their own accord, at exceedingly high rates. Welcome to a new era of work.

The Black Eyed Peas star is going on a 'quest to find out more about the lives of Black Britons'.

Donald Trump might seem like yesterday's news - but he is not going away. He has trapped into a feeling shared by many in America.

Many authors have tried to make sense of the global tensions that produced 9/11 and the western response. But it is a little-known book written 50 years earlier that gets the closest.

Bonnie Greer likens the governor of Florida to Michael Gove - both highly educated men, and both ushering in the Age of Stupid.

Regardless of its merits, the cack-handed handling of the defence deal between the US, UK and Australia risks handing the initiative to China and Russia.

In a vote on the governor’s leadership through the pandemic, voters resoundingly rejected replacing him with a Trumpist Republican.

BONNIE GREER slams the 'Texas Taliban' over the strict abortion laws in Georgia and Louisiana.

BONNIE GREER on how the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center were an attempt to destroy the American Dream.

This week in 1901 the Big Stick Ideology was developed - and influences White House policy to this day.

BONNIE GREER on how the pandemic has intensified the shift in stanning – obsessional fandom – from the world of celebrity to politics.

A stunning new exhibition at this month’s Photo London fair sees Iranian born photographer Shirin Neshat turn her lens on her adopted country.

From 9/11 to Kabul, LIONEL BARBER charts two of the most pivotal decades in US history, a story not of a crumbling superpower but a chosen path to turn inwards, for better or worse.

Do not underestimate Joe Biden's decisions over the withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan - he knows what he is doing.

LIONEL BARBER considers the Republicans who might pick up the MAGA mantle and bid for the White House

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on the shameful moral vacuum that is the British government of today

The party's left has suffered setbacks, but could its battle with the centre allow the former president to return in 2024?

As the US once again swelters through a record-breaking hot summer, climate change historian Alice Bell looks back at the events in mid-1988, when the debate over global warming decisively shifted

Former president Donald Trump’s lawsuit suing Google, Facebook and Twitter is as crazy as it sounds – but BONNIE GREER says he is still dangerous The latest lawsuit from former president Donald Trump is as stupid as you think it is. In brief: he is suing Google, Facebook and Twitter in what he calls a […]

The vice-president faces challenges over voting rights and immigration on the southern border… as well as a battle for the country’s soul In the United States in the early years of this century, the Right and its racist elements created the Tea Party. Named after the Boston Tea Party, the new movement came into being […]

What separates the Sackler Family from the Chambers Brothers, asks Will Self, as he ponders the differences between legal and illegal drug dealing One of my favourite cultural books – if such a broad category can be summoned into being, after all, aren’t all books in some sense, cultural? – is Land of Opportunity: One […]

Muhammad Ali took part in some of history’s most memorable fights. One of his least remembered took place 45 years ago this week. It was certainly the most bizarre of his long career, and also one of the most consequential There are many ways to remember Muhammad Ali: cocky, young rapping poet; outspoken political and cultural icon; arguably […]