Jonathan Freedland

A Feigned Reluctance

Rory Stewart, in his recent memoir, observes with detachment what is ludicrous in politics—even when he’s near the center of it.

Labour’s Anti-Semitism Saga, the Denouement

Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension after defying a report’s damning conclusions about his leadership was the last twist in a shameful chapter of the party’s history.

Disinformed to Death

Perhaps the moment is ripe for three new books on disinformation.

Brexit: Fools Rush Out

An object lesson in the way politics can become consumed by nationalism

The Radical Empathy of Amos Oz

Long after liberal Zionism had come to seem quaint in an Israel whose heart had grown harder, the qualities of empathy and imagination that Amos Oz brought to his writing retained their value.

Trump’s Chaver in Jerusalem

Say Goodbye, It’s Independence Day

Today’s Republican Party, like its president, is utterly unfettered by the constraining power of shame. The result is that conventions once deemed immovable have been exposed as far weaker than we understood—not worth the paper they weren’t written on.

Ultra-Orthodox ‘Friends’

Year One: Foreign Affairs

Trump has not just dismounted from America’s moral high horse. He has descended into the ditch to join those the US once felt able to condemn.

Theresa May’s Losing Gamble

Dover and Out

How did Theresa May end up pushing for such a hard-core version of Leave?

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

A Great Family Business

The first season of ‘The Crown’ is essentially the ‘Godfather’ narrative, with Elizabeth as Michael Corleone.

A World in Doubt

The overwhelming sentiment animating European and global responses to the US election is fear: over what Trump will do and over what his victory might mean closer to home.

Assange and Trump

WikiLeaks has devoted itself exclusively to the release of documents that might damage Hillary Clinton. It would be a mistake to view this merely as an anti-Clinton intervention in the US election. It is positively pro-Trump.

As Low as It Gets

Trump may lose, but the causes of his rise will linger

A Howl of Rage

The End of Republicanism?

Put aside the huge implications of such a shift for global security. Trump is turning his back on decades of Republican Party doctrine.

Reality TV in Cleveland

Initial TV ratings suggested viewers had not exactly thrilled to the first episode of Cleveland’s Trump show. He has seemed determined to show that he is unbound by the standards of basic political competence.

From Brexit to Trump?

The Brexit vote offers lessons aplenty for Americans contemplating their own appointment with nationalist, nativist populism in November.