Can we believe Ilhan Omar’s autobiography?
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman by Ilhan Omar reviewed
Dominic Green
Thursday
Tuesday
Trump picks a Swedish model
As with reindeer, immunity is in the herd
Thursday
Welcome to COVID College
Corona bursts education’s business bubble
Tuesday
COVID-19: the bluffer’s guide
‘That’s the viral test. I’m talking about the antibody test’
Thursday
The symbolism of Orion, the hunter of the heavens
From our UK edition
What happened in the rites of Eleusis is a mystery. So are all the unwritten parts of human history. Our pre-literate past is a history without a clear story: excavated stones and waste pits, fragments of myth and philological association. The early literate past is little clearer. The later Bronze Age of the Myceneans, the
Tuesday
Lockdown is over. Someone tell the government
Americans want to do whatever they feel like doing: what else are natural rights for?
Wednesday
Bill de Blasio isn’t an anti-Semite but…
…he is an idiot
Tuesday
Netanyahu’s wages of winning
The 14-page ‘coalition agreement’ sounds less like Gantz’s roadmap to power and more like a political suicide note, written for him by Netanyahu
Monday
The Meghan & Harry Show will end in tears
Now they’ve left the royal family, Meghan and Harry want to change their terms of engagement with the media to Hollywood rules
Thursday
Trump walks the recovery tightrope
Good cop, bad cop…then back to work?
Thursday
Will coronavirus kill the eurozone?
Merkel fiddles while Rome goes bankrupt
Wednesday
Plagues at Passover
As the story of Passover and the Exodus shows, without faith we are nowhere, dependent on the arbitrary caprice of the market and the pharaoh
Monday
Who is Dominic Raab?
A karate black-belt and former Foreign Office lawyer working to prosecute war criminals is deputizing for Boris Johnson
What happens if Trump gets the coronavirus?
The Republican machine could quickly reassert itself
Wednesday
Meghan Markle’s white privilege
Elephant demands that we pity the weakness of the most powerful
Saturday
King Solomon’s lost city will remain lost forever
From our UK edition
Armageddon began as Har Megiddo, the Hill of Megiddo in northern Israel. The theological aspect is Christian. For Jews, ancient or modern, Megiddo is more existential than eschatological. The name denotes a fortress overlooking a strategic crossroads: Megiddo means ‘strength’. This is where the ancient Via Maris (the ‘way of the sea’, or coastal road)
Saturday
Finger pickin’ good
Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck has reinvented his instrument and retraced its roots
Tuesday
The coronavirus is springing the Thucydides trap
War isn’t inevitable, until it is
Wednesday
Trump cannot defeat a virus
The coronavirus response is defined by delusion and petulance
The circular failing Squad
How the socialists rebuilt the Blue Wall