Laurel Duggan

is UnHerd's US correspondent.

@laureldugg

How the Right and Left flipped on seed oils Distrust of health authorities is no longer progressive

19 Nov 2024

Bluesky offers speech policing for users fleeing Musk’s X A vestige of 'old Twitter' has been created on the liberal platform

16 Nov 2024

Is the US turning away from youth gender transitions? Some Democrats now want to restrict the practice

15 Nov 2024

Legacy media faces identity crisis ahead of Trump’s term Declining profits are forcing publications to pivot to the centre

14 Nov 2024

Francis Fukuyama: Trump’s win marks ‘decisive rejection’ of liberalism In a new piece, the scholar acknowledged the far-reaching effects of populism

08 Nov 2024

Democratic elites start blame game over Harris defeat Senior party figures are split over why their contender lost

07 Nov 2024

Why white women stuck with Trump Democrats struggle to make inroads with the country's largest voting bloc

07 Nov 2024

Abortion ballot failure seals Florida’s Rightward drift A measure restoring Roe-era access was rejected

06 Nov 2024

Americans moving to California at historically low rate More than half a million residents left the state in 2023

03 Nov 2024

Trump campaign attacks neocons in final days of race The Republican candidate is reminding voters of the establishment's failures

02 Nov 2024

America’s political marriage divide is growing New research shows that marital status is becoming a proxy for ideological beliefs

01 Nov 2024

80% of Americans believe speech can be a form of violence A FIRE poll has found widespread scepticism of the First Amendment

31 Oct 2024

Democrats promote porn access in pitch to young men The party is trying to win back male voters from Donald Trump

31 Oct 2024

Arab Americans are drifting back to the Republicans Trump is leading among the formerly Left-leaning demographic

28 Oct 2024

Will Democrats abandon the trans issue? Kamala Harris has softened her stance

25 Oct 2024

Kamala Harris is torn between Michigan’s Jewish and Arab voters By failing to strongly pick one side, she risks losing both

22 Oct 2024

Democrats and Republicans prepare narratives to challenge election loss Voter suppression and fraud suspicions are spreading

20 Oct 2024

WPATH medical guidelines plagued by conflicts of interest Many practitioners have a financial stake in gender care

18 Oct 2024

Salman Rushdie: publishing The Satanic Verses would be more dangerous now The novelist argued today that social media has exacerbated censorship

17 Oct 2024

Report: immigrants responsible for nearly all workforce growth since 2019 Foreign-born workers accounted for 88% of all labour force growth in the last five years

16 Oct 2024

Is Steve Sailer re-entering the conservative mainstream? The controversial writer is inching towards acceptance on the Right

13 Oct 2024

Donald Trump calls for total global nuclear disarmament The former president claimed he nearly reached a deal with Russia and China

09 Oct 2024

Over 5,000 US children have undergone transgender surgeries New data suggests that the industry is far larger than previously known

08 Oct 2024

China is dividing the American Right Prominent Republicans have called for an end to strategic ambiguity

07 Oct 2024

American Academy of Pediatrics faces internal split over gender transitions Some doctors are challenging the leadership over cross-sex medical treatment

02 Oct 2024

Kamala Harris: I support marijuana legalisation The Vice President is distancing herself from Joe Biden

30 Sep 2024

Top high school’s standards slip following DEI policy Semifinalists for a prestigious scholarship fell by half

29 Sep 2024

How fluoride fears went mainstream New research supports claims which were once dismissed as conspiracies

27 Sep 2024

House Democrat: DOJ and FBI are ‘check against white nationalism’ Rep. Plaskett claimed a GOP subcommittee was undermining federal agencies

25 Sep 2024

Cornell student faces deportation after anti-Israel protest Ivy League colleges are taking a harder line on demonstrators

25 Sep 2024

Volodymyr Zelensky: JD Vance is ‘too radical’ Ukraine's President launched a rare attack on the GOP ticket

23 Sep 2024

Nearly one third of all English schools teach toxic masculinity Some mandatory courses teach that men are 'problematic'

21 Sep 2024

Support for German Greens plummets — poll More than a third of Germans want the party to have no role in the next government

20 Sep 2024

Gavin Newsom’s misinformation laws risk more censorship New California legislation will target social media companies

19 Sep 2024

Hillary Clinton: jail Americans who post misinformation She also accused the media of being soft on Donald Trump

17 Sep 2024

Stanford and UPenn embrace institutional neutrality More elite colleges have joined Cornell and Harvard in adopting the practice

11 Sep 2024

Democrats are bleeding black and Hispanic voters — poll Kamala Harris is performing worse than Joe Biden among minority voters

10 Sep 2024

Are elite universities ignoring affirmative action ban? New admissions data shows different approaches are being taken

04 Sep 2024

American Medical Association doubles down on gender ideology A draft form of its new guide promotes terms such as 'chestfeeding'

28 Aug 2024

Cornell joins Harvard in adopting political neutrality Ivy League universities are now vowing not to take positions on external issues

26 Aug 2024

Was Texas’s migrant-busing scheme a success? There has been a noticeable shift in the Democrats' rhetoric on the border crisis

25 Aug 2024

Alt-Right trolls of 2016 distance themselves from Trump Online influencers are encouraging the Republicans to get more aggressive

24 Aug 2024

Trump joins podcast circuit to increase appeal with young voters The former president recently sat down with comedian Theo Von

21 Aug 2024

RFK Jr campaign may join forces with Trump VP pick Nicole Shanahan said staying in the race could help Kamala Harris

20 Aug 2024

Javier Milei criticises UK censorship drive The President pledged to protect free speech in Argentina

16 Aug 2024

Democrats want to reclaim patriotism from Republicans Kamala Harris is looking to capitalise on Donald Trump's negative rhetoric about the US

15 Aug 2024

Kamala Harris is hiding her progressive record The Vice President is trying to pivot to the centre

14 Aug 2024

Report: thousands of US girls underwent trans ‘top surgeries’ A growing surgical industry is impacting vast numbers of children

13 Aug 2024

EU threatens Musk over Trump interview Thierry Breton has accused the X owner of allowing hate and misinformation to spread

13 Aug 2024

Liberal media gives Kamala Harris the soft treatment The new Democratic nominee is yet to receive proper scrutiny

12 Aug 2024

Study: Scientists damage credibility with social medial use Researchers found political posts made scientists seem less trustworthy

10 Aug 2024

Mitt Romney is the Democrats’ new darling The Republican senator has been enjoying a renaissance on the Left

04 Aug 2024

Majority of Americans think First Amendment goes too far A Fire report documents bipartisan rejection of free speech measures

01 Aug 2024

British Medical Association takes aim at Cass Review Several health organisations have questioned the report's methodology

31 Jul 2024

Bankruptcies jump 28% in states with legal online sports betting Researchers found that low-income men were hardest hit

27 Jul 2024

GOP divided over Kamala Harris strategy The Right has mixed feelings about personal attacks on the Vice President

24 Jul 2024

Kamala Harris polling worse than Biden with young voters A new poll suggests that the Vice President is no Gen Z favourite

23 Jul 2024

Conspiracy theories swirl amid Biden’s long absence The President resigned by letter and hasn't been seen in days

23 Jul 2024

How liberal elites turned on Usha Vance The wife of the GOP's VP candidate has been attacked despite staying largely apolitical

20 Jul 2024

Donald Trump criticises Nayib Bukele at GOP convention The Republican nominee blamed El Salvador's President for migrant crime

19 Jul 2024

Democratic elites attacked online over Biden criticism Infighting is spilling out into the open

12 Jul 2024

GOP’s new party platform divides the Right Populists and establishment conservatives are sparring over new policies

10 Jul 2024

Matteo Renzi: EU leaders are turning a blind eye to crime The former Italian PM pinned some blame for populism on elite complacency

09 Jul 2024

How Kamala Harris became an internet icon Memes of the Vice President have taken off online

03 Jul 2024

Could these Democrats beat Donald Trump? The party's rising stars face would face a major challenge

28 Jun 2024

US trans medical lobby deeply divided behind closed doors Internal emails reveal WPATH's feud with other organisations

27 Jun 2024

Democrat calls misinformation hearing an election distraction New York Representative Nydia Velázquez rejected claims of censorship

26 Jun 2024

Graduate infiltration of labour unions angers blue-collar base Gaza has widened the chasm between bosses and conservative workers

20 Jun 2024

Was Joe Biden the victim of ‘cheapfakes’? Both the Left and Right have shared misleading videos of the President

18 Jun 2024

State Department subpoenaed over Global Disinformation Index funding Republicans claim the government funded censorship projects targeting conservatives

17 Jun 2024

US support for same-sex marriage falls to 51% A new survey has found an eight-point decline from 2021

07 Jun 2024

Peter Singer: I would choose assisted dying The philosopher said that he would rather die than lose himself to dementia

29 May 2024

Harvard to remain neutral on controversial public issues The faculty has grown tired of the university's activism

29 May 2024

After Klaus Schwab, will the WEF move to the Right? Davos is preparing for a Trump presidency

24 May 2024

Media ramps up attacks on Supreme Court conservatives Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have become major targets

21 May 2024

Larry Hogan: the GOP’s antidote to the MAGA Right The moderate ex-governor could have an outsize influence in the Senate

18 May 2024

US medical establishment rejects Cass Report America has become a Western outlier for youth gender treatment

17 May 2024

Study: Covid face masks didn’t stop spread of Omicron Researchers found that infection rates have not been affected since February 2022

15 May 2024

Restorative justice is damaging American schools Districts representing 11 million children have adopted the questionable approach

15 May 2024

Global Disinformation Index removes funders from website The organisation has come under pressure following an UnHerd investigation

13 May 2024

US Government fails to shut down censorship case A judge has ruled that two media outlets may challenge the Department of State

12 May 2024

Think tank closure ends America’s libertarian moment FreedomWorks couldn't cope with the rise of Trump

09 May 2024

David Lammy defends Donald Trump on Nato The Shadow Foreign Secretary said that America wants Europeans to do more

08 May 2024

Campus protesters don’t represent Gen Z Students aren't united in support for anti-Israel activism

07 May 2024

Ayaan Hirsi Ali takes on Richard Dawkins over New Atheism The Christian convert said she regretted her part in undermining faith

06 May 2024

Joe Biden turns populist as election approaches The President is relaxing cigarette and marijuana rules

03 May 2024

Elite universities bear responsibility for Palestine protests Prestigious US colleges have created an activist generation

30 Apr 2024

Poll: voters warm to mass deportations US public opposition to immigration is mirroring the European trend

27 Apr 2024

UT Austin protests challenge governor’s free speech vow Greg Abbott has been criticised for cracking down on Palestine demonstrations

25 Apr 2024

TikTok is causing a realignment in American politics Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have revised their positions on the app

24 Apr 2024

Donald Trump’s popularity soars among Gen Z Young voters are turning away from the Democrats

23 Apr 2024

Democrats struggle to control progressives over Gaza The Left's disruptive tactics are causing problems for Joe Biden

20 Apr 2024

Calls to defund NPR grow after CEO tweets resurface Katherine Maher has made a series of incendiary comments

16 Apr 2024

The Ivy League donor revolt isn’t over Wealthy alumni are continuing to oppose campus protests over Gaza

15 Apr 2024

US universities crack down on Palestine protests A string of colleges have penalised students for campus demonstrations

12 Apr 2024

Sam Harris: jihadists are worse than Nazis The neuroscientist claimed it was a matter of civilisation versus its enemies

11 Apr 2024

Meet Melina Abdullah, Cornel West’s BLM activist VP pick The political novice has a colourful past

10 Apr 2024

David Cameron: Ukraine war is ‘good value for money’ The Foreign Secretary claimed it was an investment in US security

10 Apr 2024

Study: women and girls lead decline in youth mental health Researchers discovered a huge rise in depression and anxiety among the cohort

08 Apr 2024