Opinion
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What’s more powerful than the politics of division? Actually listening to people | Julianne Schultz
<p>US voters have shown there’s nothing inevitable about populism and big money politics. Australian leaders take note</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily political email</a>, <a
Americans Voted Against the ‘Depravity Economy’
Technology is increasingly a moral issue — and a bipartisan one.
We the People Finally Turn on Trump
A Norma Desmond crash-out to end all crash-outs.
Never Get High on Your Own Supply
Republicans violated the Notorious B.I.G.’s fourth crack commandment.
Children’s Problems Today Go Beyond the Screens
Readers discuss a guest essay by a child psychiatrist.
Democrats Need a Bold Governing Agenda
If Democrats rise to this moment, they can turn a single night’s victory into a new American promise.
Will Pete Hegseth be the blue tsunami’s next victim? | Arwa Mahdawi
<p>The ‘secretary of war’ and his shameful history are facing bipartisan scrutiny</p><p>Can you smell the schadenfreude in the air?</p><p>Watching some of the worst people in the world get their comeuppance this week has been deeply satisfy
How the Democrats Did It
Michelle Goldberg reported on the Democrats’ most exciting campaigns. Here’s what she saw.
Talarico’s Politics of Love
Senator-elect James Talarico had a clear vision of what Texans were looking for. Ezra Klein and Michelle Goldberg discuss his successful Senate campaign on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Vance Was Wrong About Ossoff’s Campaign
After the 2024 election, JD Vance suggested that Senator Jon Ossoff would have to cozy up to President Trump to win a Senate seat. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” Michelle Goldberg and Ezra Klein discuss what actually happened — and how Ossoff ch
Israel took a beating in the US midterms | Judith Levine
<p>In a reversal of longstanding assumptions, strong criticism of Israel’s actions may have helped put candidates over the top</p><p>“You took a chance on the unlikeliest of candidates,” Abdul El-Sayed <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/
Watching ‘NAZA’ Amid the Gazan Rubble
A Gazan journalist watches the controversial documentary from inside the war zone the film is about.
Moscow has shuttered Novaya Gazeta – we told the truth and we paid the price | Elena Kostyuchenko
<p>Russia’s best-known independent newspaper was my home for 17 years. It’s being shut down, but the spirit of its journalism will live on</p><p>Novaya Gazeta – Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper – is <a href="https://www.theguar
Pineapple on pizza is an insult to our great Italian cuisine – and here’s why we secretly love it | Luca Cesari
<p>Of course an Italian chef would rather be sacked than make this. Defending our food against such blasphemy makes us feel like better people</p><ul><li><p>Luca Cesari is a food historian and author of The History of Pizza</p></li></ul><p>
How ‘Talafreako’ Became a Selling Point
Insult politics are out. Ken Paxton’s attacks on James Talarico were “digging his political grave,” the columnist David French argues. In a recent live episode of “The Opinions,” French describes how some conservative evangelicals in Texas
The Guardian view on the AI backlash: American voters want a say in their future | Editorial
<p>Tech stocks have lost trillions while voters have rejected the industry’s political champions. The billionaire-led boom is facing a democratic reckoning</p><p>This week’s midterms showed that the political bill for the AI boom is falling
The most diverse, anti-establishment Congress in history is cause for optimism
<p>After years of outrage or numbness being the main options for dealing with politics, Tuesday’s results were permission to be optimistic</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/sign-up-to-the-stakes-2026-you
What is this strange, post-election feeling? Oh right – it’s utter joy | Dave Schilling
<p>A decade of political misery does terrible things to the mind. Tuesday’s wins came with a sense of unreality</p><p>Late on Tuesday night, the comedian Alex Edelman <a href="https://x.com/AlexEdelman/status/2117877456753582129">asked a po
Democrats finally decided to take rural America seriously – and won big | Anthony Flaccavento and Erica Etelson
<p>Democrats won over rural voters from Maga in the midterms by focusing more on working people and less on culture wars</p><p>Long before Jamie Ager entered politics, he was making a name for himself in a very different place: the meat cou
After the midterms, the global right is reeling. But the danger of Trumpism will never be gone | Jonathan Freedland
<p>Yes, the Republicans suffered humiliating defeat. But the fact that a Trump presidency was even possible means something like it could happen again</p><p>He’s down, but not quite out. Barring divine or other intervention, Donald Trump wi
There is a showdown looming in the Democratic party over support for Israel | Moustafa Bayoumi
<p>Even Donald Trump has acknowledged that support for Israel is increasingly a political liability in US politics. Will the Democratic leadership listen?</p><p>Abdul El-Sayed’s victorious path to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us
