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Explainer 21:21

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Trump-Carney G7 meeting has not defused trade fears

Michael Cuenco

Analysis 17:32

Analysis

War with Iran could destroy Trump’s legacy

Jennifer Kavanagh

News 15:19

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N.S. Lyons joins US State Department

Max Mitchell

Reaction 11:50

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Sabrina Carpenter is a deeply boring sex symbol

She represents the depressing atrophying of creativity.

Poppy Sowerby

Sunday, June 15thSunday
Jun 15^th

Explainer 17:30

Explainer

AI is killing jobs and fueling campus radicalism

This sort of economic climate is fertile soil for anger and resentment.

Joel Kotkin

News 13:00

News

Are Chinese robots in the West a Trojan horse?

Tom Ough

Online 09:00

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Banning Bonnie Blue won’t sanitize OnlyFans

Victoria Smith

Reaction 08:00

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A national grooming gangs inquiry is long overdue

Rakib Ehsan

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nightmare scenario

The regime change maniacs are back Iran is in their sights, and they've learned nothing

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

institutional corruption

Britain’s grooming gang shame The public sector needs to be purged

Mary Harrington

6 mins

17 Jun

Faith

Tech bros don’t get René Girard Luckily, the Popes do

Alexander Douglas

5 mins

17 Jun

institutional corruption

Britain’s grooming gang shame The public sector needs to be purged

Mary Harrington

6 mins

17 Jun

Faith

Tech bros don’t get René Girard Luckily, the Popes do

Alexander Douglas

5 mins

17 Jun

Sohrab Ahmari: Iran’s devastating hubris

Can Steve Hilton save California?

Democrats’ civil war

Trump-Carney G7 meeting has not defused trade fears

War with Iran could destroy Trump’s legacy

N.S. Lyons joins US State Department

Sabrina Carpenter is a deeply boring sex symbol

AI is killing jobs and fueling campus radicalism

Are Chinese robots in the West a Trojan horse?

Banning Bonnie Blue won’t sanitize OnlyFans

A national grooming gangs inquiry is long overdue

The regime change maniacs are back Iran is in their sights, and they've learned nothing

Britain’s grooming gang shame The public sector needs to be purged

Tech bros don’t get René Girard Luckily, the Popes do

Britain’s grooming gang shame The public sector needs to be purged

Tech bros don’t get René Girard Luckily, the Popes do

Britain’s grooming gang shame The public sector needs to be purged

Tech bros don’t get René Girard Luckily, the Popes do

From the UK edition

Grooming gangs report lays bare generational cover-up

Increased NHS privatization is an expensive mistake

Can Labour afford British involvement in Iran?

Darren Jones has revealed Labour’s immigration confusion

The Church of England is suffering from social justice fatigue

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

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

Trump-Carney G7 meeting has not defused trade fears

Grooming gangs report lays bare generational cover-up

N.S. Lyons joins US State Department

Trump’s National Guard gamble

Can Steve Hilton save California?

Meta chatbot shows why AI privacy is a delusion

Is the US facing its own Tavistock moment?

Israeli strikes spark anti-regime sentiment across Iran

WTA’s egg freezing policy is a win for women

Will Israel finally topple the Iranian regime?

The West has forgotten the art of strategy China and Russia are the new grandmasters

Can China rescue the classics? Greek philosophy may be of ideological use

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

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

Trump’s National Guard gamble State violence can spark popular revolt

How data wrecked American warfare Robert McNamara remade the military

Our Mission

How far will Iran go? The Ayatollah is running out of road

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

Will decriminalizing rough sleeping lead to migrant tent cities?

Labor spending review is a fiscal fantasy

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

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

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

Inside America’s Right-wing tech armory High-tech swashbucklers are outbuilding China

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

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?

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

LA protests expose limits of Waymo’s street intelligence

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

Iran’s devastating hubris Will Trump show restraint?