Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and...

John & Nisha Whitehead “We’re all potential victims.” Peter Christ, retired police officer Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before...

The past five days have seen nation-wide riots break out across France. These events were supposedly set in motion the death of Nahel Merzouk, an Algerian-French teenager shot by...

John Steppling “European Left-wing political scientists find difficult to understand that the colonial contradiction is at the heart of our present, they think it’s a conceptual error, something anachronistic,...