The break-up of the Right

What's happening today beneath the surface

Wednesday, May 21stWednesday
May 21^st

Analysis 21:30

Trump’s Golden Dome is a high-stakes gamble

Tom Rogan

Debate 19:30

Fake summer reading list exposes AI threat to journalism

Zaid Jilani

Analysis 16:00

Incel coverage is fueling a moral panic

With all the subterranean notoriety, there has never been a better time to be one.

Simon Cottee

Debate 13:00

Democrats will never find a liberal Joe Rogan

Emily Jashinsky

Tuesday, May 20thTuesday
May 20^th

Analysis 18:30

Pam Bondi is right: the DoJ isn’t impartial

Kyle Sammin

Analysis 17:00

Nvidia’s Middle East expansion is a bet against China

Harry Clynch

Explainer 14:30

New Gaza offensive is turning Netanyahu’s allies against him

David Swift

View more from the newsroom

Trump’s strategy of peace But does he have the staff to implement it?

George Beebe

5 mins

The brutal flaw in Israel’s starvation plan Famine won’t bring victory

Alex de Waal

6 mins

22 May

How to win American citizenship An immigration game show isn't a bad idea

Kat Rosenfield

5 mins

22 May

The brutal flaw in Israel’s starvation plan Famine won’t bring victory

Alex de Waal

6 mins

22 May

How to win American citizenship An immigration game show isn't a bad idea

Kat Rosenfield

5 mins

22 May

The brutal flaw in Israel’s starvation plan Famine won’t bring victory

Alex de Waal

6 mins

22 May

How to win American citizenship An immigration game show isn't a bad idea

Kat Rosenfield

5 mins

22 May

From the UK edition

Explainer21 May

Giving Ozempic to 20 million Brits would be disastrous

Kristina Murkett

Reaction21 May

Kemi Badenoch isn’t taking the Lib Dem threat seriously

Peter Franklin

Debate20 May

Who does the EU youth mobility scheme really benefit?

Philip Cunliffe

Reaction20 May

Starmer’s winter fuel U-turn reveals a government without direction

Angus Reilly

Reaction19 May

Gary Lineker exit has exposed BBC’s double standards

Ralph Leonard

Reaction19 May

Donald Tusk is powerless to stop Poland’s Right-wing wave

Michal Kranz

Explainer18 May

New report exposes fallacy of UK Net Zero target

Labour’s hopes of economic growth cannot be achieved while the UK has such high energy prices.

David Rose

Reaction18 May

Labour’s foreign aid cuts are long overdue

Henry Hill

Debate16 May

Is the NHS caving to pressure over trans clinic age limits?

A child’s rejection of gender norms should not be used to validate misogynistic fantasies.

Victoria Smith

Reaction16 May

Do Labor MPs really support Starmer’s immigration crackdown?

Angus Reilly

Dispatch

The gold mine tearing Ulster apart Locals dig deep to fight foreign money

Alexander Poots

6 mins

Shinto

Sumo is bigger than ever

Christopher Harding

6 mins

Dispatch

Inside a Ukrainian drone factory

Ian Birrell

12 mins

Chelsea Flower Show

Who will rescue Britain’s gardens?

Tim Abrahams

5 mins

Watch & listen

Watch & Listen

Colin WrightIs MAGA woke?

Ben ShapiroThe break-up of the Right

Emily JashinskyTrump’s FBI on the death of Jeffrey Epstein

Emily JashinskyBiden’s cancer diagnosis

Aris RoussinosRomania

Politics

The brutal flaw in Israel’s starvation plan

Alex de Waal

6 mins

How to win American citizenship

Kat Rosenfield

5 mins

Colin WrightIs MAGA woke?

Monday, May 19thMonday
May 19^th

Analysis 21:30

Was Biden’s cancer diagnosis covered up?

Concealment can prove far more damaging once exposed.

Oliver Bateman

News 19:45

Bernie Sanders: Democrats are a threat to democracy

UnHerd Staff

Online 15:15

Fertility clinic bombing heralds weird new era of terrorism

Mary Harrington

Dispatch 11:55

My night with Romania’s defeated populists

The upset to the country’s political class is unlikely to be resolved any time soon.

Aris Roussinos

Debate 10:00

Trump should not demand a ceasefire in Putin call

Jennifer Kavanagh

How China co-opted the green movement Development for Beijing, degrowth for us

Joel Kotkin

7 mins

21 May

How data wrecked American warfare Robert McNamara remade the military

Stephen Pimentel

7 mins

25 Apr

Katy Perry is pointing us to the Moon Nasa must beat China

Peter Hague

7 mins

16 Apr

Emily JashinskyJake Tapper’s Biden confession

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

Elon Musk was destined to fail He’s lost in the smarmy world of politics

David Auerbach

5 mins

21 May

Welcome to the age of Otaku Ghibli memes are just the start

Louis Elton

7 mins

4 Apr

Our Mission

When the herd takes off in one direction, what do you do?
UnHerd is for people who dare to think for themselves.

Mission Statement

Bidengate is the anti-Watergate Democracy has died in darkness

Mary Harrington

6 mins

20 May

Sunday, May 18thSunday
May 18^th

Analysis 17:00

Moody’s US credit rating downgrade has spooked investors

John Rapley

Explainer 13:00

New report exposes fallacy of UK Net Zero target

Labour’s hopes of economic growth cannot be achieved while the UK has such high energy prices.

David Rose

Reaction 08:00

Labour’s foreign aid cuts are long overdue

Henry Hill

Saturday, May 17thSaturday
May 17^th

Analysis 17:00

China threatens Scott Bessent’s economic rebalancing act

Wolfgang Munchau

Debate 13:00

Can Germany really build the strongest army in Europe?

Calls are growing to get Russian gas back as quickly as possible.

Katja Hoyer

Reaction 08:00

Labour is panicking over deportation hubs

Mike Jones

Japan’s humiliation of South Korea They should be the best of friends

Oliver Jia

5 mins

21 Mar

critical thinking

Aptitude tests are making us stupid They encourage workplace conservatism

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

9 mins

12 Mar

Sohrab AhmariPope Leo versus the populists

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

Putin’s plans for Europe A ceasefire could free his hand

Bethany Elliott

6 mins

20 May

Ancient Rome was built on gossip Tittle-tattle is a powerful weapon

Boyd Tonkin

7 mins

18 Feb

Culture

21.05 2025

Democrats will never find a liberal Joe Rogan

Everton are the real Scousers

Despotic Inroad

6 mins

How ADHD medicine failed boys

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

Friday, May 16thFriday
May 16^th

Analysis 19:00

Harvard is preparing to outlast Trump’s war on DEI

John Murawski

Online 16:15

Grok’s ‘white genocide’ glitch: a cautionary tale for AI’s future

Gavin Haynes

Analysis 10:00

Istanbul Ukraine talks are for show, not peace

Bethany Elliott

Thursday, May 15thThursday
May 15^th

Analysis 19:00

Top Democrats distance themselves from progressive past

Michael Baharaeen

Explainer 10:00

Blue-state housing crisis is costing Democrats voters

Joel Kotkin

Debate 07:00

Are we over-medicalizing neurodivergence?

Kristina Murkett

Flyover country

Trump’s rural voters know what they’re doing Sneering only widens the divide

Nicholas F. Jacobs

5 mins

19 May

Frank Zappa: America’s last rebel The old music gods are cashing out

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

17 Feb

How YouTube forged the online Right Its polemicists radicalized a generation

Gavin Haynes

6 mins

14 Feb

Emily JashinskyTrump takes on the neocons

Trump’s Economic Revolution

These Times

Why I’m still a Democrat Still the serious party of government

Sam Kahn

8 mins

20 May

Martin Amis stole my life He distorted our romance for profit

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

7 mins

14 Feb

Science

21.05 2025

Giving Ozempic to 20 million Brits would be disastrous

20.05 2025

Nvidia’s Middle East expansion is a bet against China

The Pope versus the populists Can there be reconciliation?

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

17 May

Wednesday, May 14thWednesday
May 14^th

Reaction 20:30

David Hogg saga exposes fecklessness of Democrats

Malcom Kyeyune

Debate 17:15

Pope Leo XIV: the holy critic of artificial intelligence

Peter Franklin

Explainer 13:20

Trump’s Middle East tour seals end of Opec

Ralph Schoellhammer

Reaction 11:15

Pfizergate ruling increases pressure on Ursula von der Leyen

Thomas Fazi

Analysis 07:00

Scotland’s assisted dying vote paves way for UK legislation

Jamie Gillies

Skepticism won’t save you Science can never be certain

Timandra Harkness

6 mins

12 Feb

Anorexia shouldn’t be a death sentence Ethical activists conspire to enable suicide

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

7 Feb

Jason RileyThe affirmative action myth

Trump versus Zelensky and the Wars for Ukraine’s Resources

These Times

Political Gravity

The decline and fall of MAGA Time and chaos are tugging Trump down

Ross Barkan

7 mins

20 May

The folly of a British Silicon Valley Starmerism is suffocating its progress

Travis Aaroe

5 mins

7 Feb

Faith

19.05 2025

Fertility clinic bombing heralds weird new era of terrorism

The Charedi have a woman problem

Julie Bindel

6 mins

The Pope versus the populists

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

Tuesday, May 13thTuesday
May 13^th

Debate 21:00

Jake Tapper is wrong: Biden was declining long before 2024

Emily Jashinsky

Analysis 19:30

Ruben Gallego launches centrist insurgency inside Democratic Party

Michael Cuenco

Reaction 15:30

Why is Josh Hawley the only Republican defending Medicaid?

Sohrab Ahmari

Monday, May 12thMonday
May 12^th

Analysis 19:00

A Putin-Zelensky meeting is long overdue

It won’t end the war overnight, but it could restart the only serious path to peace.

Anatol Lieven

Explainer 10:50

China tariffs deal could backfire on Trump

Jennifer Kavanagh

Weekend Analysis

Trump’s new world disorder America is heading for a default

Helen Thompson

6 mins

17 May

new world order

Europe is clinging to yesterday Donald Trump will bring down the coalition of centrists

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

20 Jan

Are you a board game loser? Real life is leaving you behind

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

7 Dec

Peter HitchensThe case for the death penalty

Crisis: Trump, Zelensky and a moment of truth for Starmer

These Times

Starmer’s ‘EU reset’ is a fairytale There will be no sunny uplands

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

19 May

Keir Starmer has no dream. The Prime Ministers reset is doomed to fail

Tom McTague

5 mins

5 Dec

War

21.05 2025

Trump’s Golden Dome is a high-stakes gamble

20.05 2025

New Gaza offensive is turning Netanyahu’s allies against him

19.05 2025

Trump should not demand a ceasefire in Putin call

Putin’s plans for Europe

Bethany Elliott

6 mins

Why Erdogan can’t crush the Kurds

Matt Broomfield

6 mins

How ADHD medicine failed boys Stop blaming the kids

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

15 May

Sunday, May 11thSunday
May 11^th

Debate 20:00

Labor and Tories are losing the immigration argument

Tom Jones

Explainer 16:00

Tariffs alone won’t save US pharma

Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski

Analysis 13:00

Stephen Miller’s plan to suspend habeas corpus is dangerous

Kyle Sammin

Reaction 08:00

Where are Britain’s Left-wing protectionists?

Richard Johnson

Saturday, May 10thSaturday
May 10^th

Reaction 19:00

Is Trump about to recognize a Palestinian state?

Trump is prioritizing the Sunni Arab monarchies and his own ambitions over Netanyahu's.

Tom Rogan

Factcheck 13:00

Is the EU basing policy on flawed sexual assault data?

Ivar Arpi

Analysis 08:00

Can Nigel Farage’s deportation plan succeed?

Farage must avoid the trap: we don’t need another referendum sideshow.

Mike Jones

Emily JashisnkyIs Trump winning the trade war?

The German Election: Friedrich Merz, “Independence” from America, and the Rise of the Far Right

These Times

The Charedi have a woman problem Yehudis Fletcher is fighting from within

Julie Bindel

6 mins

19 May

Society

21.05 2025

Fake summer reading list exposes AI threat to journalism

21.05 2025

Incel coverage is fueling a moral panic

19.05 2025

Gary Lineker exit has exposed BBC’s double standards

The gold mine tearing Ulster apart

Alexander Poots

6 mins

Sumo is bigger than ever

Christopher Harding

6 mins

Friday, May 9thFriday
May 9^th

Debate 20:00

Trump’s trans military ban goes too far

Lisa Selin Davis

Explainer 18:00

Trump should not shy away from taxing the rich

Republicans need to keep populist priorities in mind.

Fred Bauer

Debate 16:00

The EU will suffer in any US trade deal

Wolfgang Munchau

Reaction 13:00

Tesla has bigger worries than boycotts

Gavin Haynes

Analysis 10:30

Is the UK-US deal a blip in the global trade war?

John Rapley

Reaction 07:00

Pope Leo XIV heralds a renewal of Catholic social justice

Sohrab Ahmari

The fading American police officer Underpolicing is a social-justice problem

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

14 May

Emily JashinskyBiden-Harris makes a comeback

Trump, Putin and Europe’s Historic Crisis

UnHerdTV

Weekend Spotlight

Everton are the real Scousers Who are we without Goodison Park?

Despotic Inroad

6 mins

17 May