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Of all tech billionaires, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos saw the biggest hit to his net worth in the past 12 months, according to a new Forbes ranking. Pablo…

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg; Donald Trump Seth Wenig, File/Associated Press; Andrew Harnik/Associated Press Donald Trump became the first former president to be…

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that he intends to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus appears to be another attempt to raise the stakes in the conflict in Ukraine. It follows Putin’s warnings that Moscow is ready to use “all available means” to fend off attacks on Russian territory, a

Keir Starmer keeps telling us what he believes, often at length. There was the 14,000-word Fabian pamphlet 18 months ago. In the past week he has given a speech about “mission-driven government”, and written another 3,000-word article, on which The New Statesman has put the headline: “This is what I believe.”

Children’s author Roald Dahl has entertained generations of children with his darkly humorous books. His storylines usually pit unsavoury adults against clever…

My role as War Child global ambassador has taken me to various conflict zones around the world – but since the conflict in Ukraine broke out in February 2022, there has been something especially unsettling about this conflict being on our doorstep. Meeting children and families forced to flee their homes, when the context is so similar

The people who are in the forefront of pushing Social Security “reform” by cutting benefits have gotten pretty good at hiding their intentions behind plausible-sounding jargon and economists’ gibberish.

Some Western commentators are now catching up with the reality that the NATO-supported war in Ukraine is a “Western war against Russia,” a forever antagonist of Eastern Europe. Guardian columnist Martin Kettle last week admitted that this assessment is correct. But Kettle only came to this conclusion after Germany,

Napier Marten’s public appeal to his missing daughter Constance, with her few-days-old baby, imploring her to make herself known to the authorities for the safety and welfare of both, could hardly fail to move you. “Darling Constance... I beseech you... you are much, much loved... we are deeply concerned for your and your

More than 150,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2022, according to one estimate, and an additional 23,000 have been laid off since the start of 2023. These workers are not alone. More than 30 million American workers have gone through mass layoffs since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking them in 1996.