Politics: Left

Live updates and latest news coverage on the possible indictment of Donald Trump....

The EU contributed to Recep Tayyip Erdoan's authoritarian turn, but with help from Turkey's upcoming election, it can undo the error....

Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine....

Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion for defamation, while Fox has asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuit....

Republicans have been quick to attack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and defend former President Donald Trump before any charges have been spelled out....

With the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's decision on indictment seemingly imminent, Trump lawyers made an 11th-hour request. It may end up hurting his legal defense....

Research reveals a strong public appetite for progressive ideas. But we cannot flourish in an environment of mutual intolerance....

The industry is preoccupied with money-making, but the potential of shared computing could go far beyond finance....

In Washington, it's a busy hearing day on Capitol Hill. Among these expected to testify: Norfolk Southern chief executive officer Alan Shaw and Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen....

The Prime Minister made five promises to the public in January. We monitor whether they are being fulfilled....

The British Dental Association told MPs that chronic sectoral neglect has led to severe workforce shortages in dentistry....

With a growing body of research on the use of psychedelics to treat depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health conditions, a new political action committee seeks to elect candidates who support using psilocybin, ketamine a...

Tucker Carlson. Can't live with him. Can't, well.... The moments of Tucker Carlson hypocrisy are so legion, you'd need a week straight of no-sleep, Clockwork Orange-type pinning-your-eyes-open to see them all. But this unbelievable moment from...

Jack Smith's prosecutors have presented compelling preliminary evidence that Trump knowingly and deliberately misled his own attorneys about his retention of classified materials after leaving office, a former top federal judge wrote Friday in a seale...

It's bad enough to argue that Trump's fraudulent and corrupt hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels does not warrant an arrest but it's a whole level of MAGA worse to argue that the district attorney should go to jail merely for enforcing...

Depleted uranium is around 60% as radioactive as natural uranium, and its heaviness lends itself for use in armor-piercing rounds....

The Manhattan D.A. has been investigating whether Trump falsified business records in the alleged Stormy Daniels payout....

After three US banks collapsed in a week and a major European bank, Credit Suisse, had to be rescued, the financial system is facing a new set of systemic risks...

On this day in 1968 Tammy Wynette recorded her version of the Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman song 'D-I-V-O-R-C-E' which went on to top the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in June of that year. Press Watch : "Complicit enablers": 20 ye...

A poem for Wednesday...

In the last four years, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has proposed legalizing marijuana three times. All three times, the Republicans have shot that idea down. Can't have that devil salad in our fine state. However, the citizens of Wisconsin must not ...

A bipartisan group is trying to reauthorize a government spy tool that faces an uphill battle amid increased skepticism of the 9/11-era surveillance program....

The Democratic Women's Caucus unveiled its new leadership team on Wednesday, which includes Rep....

A case about a silly, poop-themed dog toy is also a case about free speech and judicial humility....

We can break the cycle of negativity bias in the media and get a more balanced view of the world....

A slow-burning crisis in which insolvent banks prop up insolvent businesses is a dangerous and very real possibility....

The Chancellor is caught between a banking crisis and a cost-of-living crisis....

There was a hoopla in Colchester for the royal visit, with small children waving flags and a brass band....

The Supreme Court will debate whether Jack Daniel's has to grin and bear it over dog-poop themed toys that bear a resemblance to its iconic whiskey bottles....

Benjamin Netanyahu's radical response to his indictment — and what it might portend for a potential Trump arrest....

The blistering Casey report identifies failings across nearly all the force's departments....

This column which, though named after a line in Shakespeare's "Richard II", refers to the whole of Britain has run in the NS since 1934....

The former PM will hope to convince Tory MPs in a Privileges Committee hearing about partygate not to vote for any sanction against him....

This week on "Intelligence Matters," host Michael Morell talks with former senior U.S. ambassador and Middle East envoy Dennis Ross about growing instability in the Middle East....

We thought we were safe. The flu season was tapering off. Spring was in the air (sort of, some places). As flu cases flatlined through January and February, Americans breathed a sigh of relief, kicked up our collective feet ... and immediately realized we...

The show's final season begins Sunday. Which Roy will rise to the top is anyone's guess....

As inflation rises once more, we summarise the measures announced in the Budget to help with rising prices....

From help with energy costs to start up loans, the government is supporting SMEs....

Scientists are developing a male pill with no side effects, but it would be an outrage if this luxury wasn't granted to all of us....

It's "squeaky-bum time" for the Labour leader but we know he has an appetite for concrete change....

The inspection body is flawed but we forget about the anarchy of schools before its creation and the kids that were failed....

I was hysterical with laughter watching this Diane Morgan-starring series from David Earl and Joe Wilkinson....

Speaking at the New Statesman Future Generations conference, panellists discussed how to prevent young people from losing faith in crucial public services....

The government's sinister framing of an attack on me is part of a climate of creeping authoritarianism....

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On Fox News' Outnumbered , the roundtable of Christian conservatives ginned up the "outrage of the day" by claiming Christians are the real people facing bigotry. Over the weekend, the San Jose Shark's promoted an event called Pride Night ...

Former President Donald Trump claimed he would be indicted today, but that can't be confirmed. It will happen, but we're not sure it will happen today. We are certain that he's a grifter, though. And the one-termer is fundraising off of his po...