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When everyone else is away on holidays, those that are left make for the bay. It’s like the water belongs to those who wake early

Countries that cherish democratic values need to take a stand against the president-elect’s throwback to unabashed American expansionism

In another era, the outgoing president would have made a great cold war leader. Instead, his tenure was dogged by errors, naivety and overcaution

Elon Musk, one of the brightest minds of his generation, is saying it, so it must be true

At many points, it looked as if he never would be sentenced. That he was sentenced to nothing, then, is itself a small victory

Every barrel of oil, every cubic meter of gas, and every ton of coal burned brings us closer to environmental catastrophe

Imagine a world in which a cabal of extreme libertarian oligarchs operated with complete impunity. In which they did what they liked on a private island outside the reach of the law, operated a uniformed militia, and saw ordinary people as subhuman “trash” whose struggles for survival only have value…

There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheld, says writer and academic Emily Bell

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: With uncontrolled blazes still raging around Los Angeles, on the day it was confirmed that last year was the hottest in human history, it would be a good time for global leaders to finally take climate change seriously. But the signs are that no such Damascene…

The supreme court order may also be a harbinger of what awaits the US over the next four years: litigation that again divides the judiciary and the nation

Editorial: Events in California reveal how political obstruction is deepening a climate crisis that needs urgent action to prevent it becoming an irreversible disaster