In Search of Normalcy: What the Two Parties Aren’t Giving America
People just want things to work. Charles C. W. Cooke
Trump’s Apology Tour
By Noah Rothman
DOGE Takes a Nibble Out of Big Government
By Jim Geraghty
People just want things to work. Charles C. W. Cooke
By Noah Rothman
By Jim Geraghty
Images of Los Angeles protesters waving Mexican flags have gone viral in conservative circles this week. Many protesters say they are aware of the political reaction but won’t put their flags away.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Who won the war?’ We did, say the Americans, the British and the Russians. Each nation has a long history of claiming a unique role in defeating the Axis powers and diminishing the contribution of its allies. By Martin Ivens
The wartime alliances that could not survive the peace By Omer Bartov
Capers and wallpaper: a new film from Wes Anderson By Keith Miller
What Americans understand by greatness By Andrew Stark
A practical and literary guide to modern magic By Russell Williams

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘What He Can’t Say’ – On the road with Kier Starmer…
One family’s experience of life and death in the war zone. By Sondos Sabra
The civil wars within Maga and Reform UK only show how dangerous they are. By Andrew Marr
The Prime Minister believes he will heal Britain – but can he find the words ? By Tom McTague
Tracey Emin, Jeremy Corbyn, Piers Morgan and others on what the Prime Minister should do next.
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘American disorder’
Donald Trump’s troop deployment in LA could yet backfire
Governments’ obsession with factories is built on myths—and will be self-defeating
Ecuador is a test case in the fight against global gangs
Scenes of unrest in Southern California, stoked by President Trump as he tries to deport more immigrants, have left Democratic leaders worried the confrontation elevates a losing issue for the party.
President Trump has expanded domestic use of the armed forces, testing the limits on involving troops at protests and the border.
The conviction, on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual act, was handed down in a mixed verdict that acquitted Harvey Weinstein of a second count of the same crime.

It’s three years since the murders of the journalist Dom Phillips and the Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who were both killed on a visit to the remote Javari valley in the Brazilian Amazon.
Dom was a Guardian contributor based in Brazil, whose reporting often appeared in the Guardian Weekly. Last week his widow, Alessandra Sampaio, came to visit our London offices along with Beto Marubo, an Indigenous leader from the Brazilian Amazon.
From the other side of the world it’s easy to feel far removed from the activities of criminal gangs that threaten the Amazon’s Indigenous people and plunder its natural resources. But hearing Beto and Alessandra speak so powerfully about the impact of Dom and Bruno’s work reminded me why we need to stay focused on a region that defies easy scrutiny.
In disputes over protests, deportations and tariffs, the president has invoked statutes that may not provide him with the authority he claims.
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.
Officials from the world’s largest economies will try to strike a deal Tuesday to relax painful export restrictions that they have imposed on each other.

THE WALRUS MAGAZINE (June 10, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Summer Reading’…
by Soraya Amiri
Afghans worry their children are doomed under new curriculum enforced at gunpoint
The culture war’s favourite prophet can’t finish a straight thoughtby Luke Savage