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How video games wrote the future
Games aren’t just the most significant and popular artform of our time—they’re the driving force behind the AI revolution
Peter Hoskin
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Trump is mobilising federal troops with no clear legal basis
DAT Green
Politics
The Spending Review was a major political shift
Tom Clark
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Don’t drain the swamp—refill it
Tim Smedley
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The Englishman on a crusade to ban UNRWA
Alona Ferber
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If Kemi Badenoch continues as Tory leader, her party’s decline could become terminal
Andrew Adonis
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Among the LA protesters
Peter Hoskin
People
Diane Abbott: ‘Party leaders want MPs that keep quiet’
Imaan Irfan
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Labour Party
Neil Kinnock: Labour is ‘100 per cent wrong’ on Reform
Alan Rusbridger
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Daron Acemoglu reveals what tech bros won’t say about AI, while Peter Hoskin explains how gaming made the future. Plus, Neil Kinnock on Labour’s “paralytic caution”, Alona Ferber tours settler Jerusalem & Atul Dev on US universities’ capitulation to Trump

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When students protested, Columbia capitulated
Atul Dev
The Englishman on a crusade to ban UNRWA
Alona Ferber
The strange death of the Rejoin campaign
Ben Ansell
The ghosts who took vengeance for China’s polluting past
Isabel Hilton
Confronting the enigma of Muriel Spark
Rhodri Lewis
Deborah Levy: ‘At the close of a novel, the world must become bigger’
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Europe could blow the west apart
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On the aid frontline of the Gaza war
Henry Porter
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Maga meets the Middle East
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Germany
Germany’s next move could make or break green Europe
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The Trump-Musk feud
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The new wave of approachable journalism
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Q&A: Would you have interviewed Hitler?
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The founding fathers of Trumpism
Donald Trump may look like a clean break from figures of the grand old right, like William Buckley and Friedrich Hayek. Two new books prove otherwise
Tom Clark
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The ghosts who took vengeance for China’s polluting past
Isabel Hilton
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Mental problems: the overdiagnosis of overdiagnosis
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The problems with Jesse Armstrong’s ‘Mountainhead’
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AI’s biggest secret: we can shape it
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Daron Acemoglu
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The uncomfortable truth about progressive groupthink
Sasha Mudd
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AI isn’t magic. It’s just weird
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Down the Truth Social rabbit hole
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Simon Armitage: ‘I went into poetry because it was alternative’
In his hometown of Marsden, West Yorkshire, the poet laureate is performing in what he calls a ‘middle territory between poem and song’
Tom Clark
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Naga Munchetty: The BBC mustn’t stop trying to earn trust
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