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The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed

Writing during the carnage of the first world war, the iconoclast intellectual Randolph Bourne described the American revolutionary inheritance as a squalid marriage between...

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Barack Obama says US is ‘worse off’ than before war with Iran

Barack Obama has said that after 15 weeks of war with Iran, the US is now “worse off” than before the conflict started in...

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Trump posts late-night social media spree as Iran war drags on

Donald Trump unleashed a late-night social media tirade against his political enemies, attacking predecessors including Barack Obama with false accusations and amplifying calls for...

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Starmer says it ‘beggars belief’ he wasn’t told about Mandelson vetting failure as he faces down the Commons – UK politics as it happened

Starmer's Mandelson statement to MPs - snap verdictAndrew SparrowIt wasn’t much of a win, but as Keir Starmer heads back to Downing Street he...

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In the other US target of regime change, Cuba, I saw real hardship – and resilience | Sara Kozameh

On 29 January this year, after the kidnapping of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro but before the assassination of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, President Trump turned his...

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