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Will Israel finally topple the Iranian regime?

Kyle Orton

Thursday, June 12thThursday
Jun 12^th

Analysis 21:00

Analysis

Is Israel about to bomb Iran — or just bluffing for Trump?

Tom Rogan

Review 18:30

Review

NYT trans podcast fails to grapple with detransitioners

The Protocol never quite admits that Democrats left a vacuum, which Republicans filled.

Lisa Selin Davis

Dispatch 17:00

Dispatch

dispatch

Inside New York City’s anti-ICE protests

Lily Isaacs

Analysis 13:00

Analysis

Gold’s strength should worry the Fed

John Rapley

Wednesday, June 11thWednesday
Jun 11^th

Explainer 18:00

Explainer

explainer

Trump’s $1,000 baby accounts won’t help parents

Phoebe Arslanagic-Little

Analysis 15:25

Analysis

LA protests expose limits of Waymo’s street intelligence

Autonomous cars are a bit like Dodos: they have no natural sense for danger.

Gavin Haynes

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Middle East

Netanyahu’s attack on US diplomacy He’s dragging Trump into war with Iran

Heather Penatzer

4 mins

Cosmology

The Big Bang myth Our origins will always elude us

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

13 Jun

Gender wars

The manosphere meets its match 'Rad Fem Hitler' fights hate with hate

Lily Isaacs

7 mins

12 Jun

Cosmology

The Big Bang myth Our origins will always elude us

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

13 Jun

Gender wars

The manosphere meets its match 'Rad Fem Hitler' fights hate with hate

Lily Isaacs

7 mins

12 Jun

Jonathan Wilson: Fifa doesn’t care about football

LA protests expose limits of Waymo’s street intelligence

Trump’s immigration climbdown

Will Israel finally topple the Iranian regime?

Is Israel about to bomb Iran — or just bluffing for Trump?

NYT trans podcast fails to grapple with detransitioners

Inside New York City’s anti-ICE protests

Gold’s strength should worry the Fed

Trump’s $1,000 baby accounts won’t help parents

LA protests expose limits of Waymo’s street intelligence

Netanyahu’s attack on US diplomacy He’s dragging Trump into war with Iran

The Big Bang myth Our origins will always elude us

The manosphere meets its match 'Rad Fem Hitler' fights hate with hate

The Big Bang myth Our origins will always elude us

The manosphere meets its match 'Rad Fem Hitler' fights hate with hate

The Big Bang myth Our origins will always elude us

The manosphere meets its match 'Rad Fem Hitler' fights hate with hate

From the UK edition

The Green Party is still in thrall to gender ideology

Are Tory MPs really going to defect to Lib Dems over ECHR?

Will decriminalizing rough sleeping lead to migrant tent cities?

Labor spending review is a fiscal fantasy

Dominic Cummings: Whitehall is terrified of violence breaking out

Will Foreign Office staff resign over Gaza?

Sizewell C looks like an expensive mistake

Labour’s winter fuel U-turn is government by PR stunt

NHS can’t rely on foreign workers forever

Another spending review won’t solve Britain’s policing crisis

Trump’s military takeover His politicized army is un-American

Can Keir Starmer stop Reform?

Fifa doesn’t care about soccer

Why Ballymena is burning

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Politics

Are Tory MPs really going to defect to Lib Dems over ECHR?

Gold’s strength should worry the Fed

Will decriminalizing rough sleeping lead to migrant tent cities?

Trump’s military takeover

Can Keir Starmer stop Reform?

Democrats are dangerously split over California protests

LA riots are descending into ethnic conflict

Trump was right to send the National Guard to LA

Mark Rutte: Trump broke the Russia-Ukraine deadlock

Why men are outspending women on Botox

Trump’s war on science Not every egghead is the enemy

India can’t win a war with Pakistan Modi has everything to lose

How data wrecked American warfare Robert McNamara remade the military

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

The collapse of the American Dream Now the middle class are downwardly mobile

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

Our Mission

Trump is testing Los Angeles He is pushing the limits of presidential power

LA riots reflect failure of progressive leadership

Is Nucleus Genomic rigging the genetic lottery?

Elon Musk is on the path to political exile

Daily Mail’s praise of Kemi Badenoch ignores Tory failures

Kilmar Abrego Garcia return is a victory for due process

JD Vance: Elon Musk may not be welcome back

Should Trump nationalize SpaceX and Starlink?

Burkas are regressive and misogynistic — but they shouldn’t be banned

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

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

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

Dior’s faux feminism Fashion used to drive social change

Aptitude tests are making us stupid They encourage workplace conservatism

Culture

Edmund White was the master chronicler of hidden gay life

The BBC has let Paris Lees rewrite womanhood

Kehinde Andrews’s attack on academic language comes too late

Dior’s faux feminism

Can Jesse Singal save liberalism?

Musk’s influence in DC was always overhyped

Steve Bannon: Elon Musk is a Chinese agent

Edmund White was the master chronicler of hidden gay life

Merz’s Washington visit cools EU-US tensions

Trump’s travel ban risks undermining Iran deal

Andrew Tate defends Greta Thunberg’s Gaza voyage

Is Andrew Cuomo really the best New York City can do?