The far right's rise to power in Sweden has been stopped, but its influence persists.
Since the party was founded in 1988, the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) have experienced such steady growth that a victory…
The defacement of Washington, D.C.: from a giant arch to a nuclear-proof bunker, Trump's legacy-building display of excess is an architectural disaster.
If the US president were a developer, you might expect some sprucing up of the capital—a few buildings renovated, maybe…
We hear that AI could wipe us out, and we just shrug. How do we escape this nihilism? | Brigid Delaney
This year, the idea that the future is almost entirely hopeless has quietly become part of our shared mindset. Last…
End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here
The more power today’s radical right-wing nationalists gain, the more likely their destructive politics will become normal. We shouldn’t, for…
I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner
This weekend, the CEOs of major AI labs called for slowing down AI development. Their concern is justified: the field…
The one change that worked: I was terrified of the dentist – until I found a very special one.
I haven’t always been afraid of the dentist. If you’d asked me ten years ago whether sitting in the dentist’s…
The AfD won a shocking election in Germany. Elon Musk was thrilled.
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party shook European politics this week with a decisive win in a German state election,…
OpenAI's CEO and Elon Musk support calls to slow down 'reckless' AI development.
Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to “slow the pace” of AI…
George Osborne has called for the UK to rejoin the EU customs union and increase trade.
Former chancellor George Osborne said Britain’s economy had “fallen off a cliff” since Brexit and that rejoining the European Union’s…
'I was hit by an emotional hurricane': Esther Freud, Deborah Levy and other novelists revisit their childhood homes
‘People return to their childhood homes to revisit earlier versions of themselves.’ — Psychotherapist and author Julia Samuel Julia Samuel,…