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Trump’s evangelist

DIARY

Who’s afraid of Palantir? • The tech giant can cut crime and save lives — but is being vilified

In Praise of Newsprint

Trump’s global coup • The President is winning the geopolitical battle with China

The case for the administrative state

Turned off • How smartphones are ravaging the birth rate

The ‘great man’ era is passing away

Seek and destroy • The left will stop at nothing to purge America of MAGA

Europe should listen to Trump

Score bore • The soccer virus has never infected America

Slop stars • Why AI-generated musicians will never replace the real thing

Reading the Thiel leaves • The meaning behind his move to Argentina

Rage against the machine • The angry movement seeking to destroy the tech industry

Novel ideas • A century on, Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is still a powerful read, writes Gustav Temple

True detective • Not all portrayals of Sherlock Holmes hit the mark, says Julia Yost

Shell shocked • Who stands to gain in the pistachio wars?

Pit stop

New York life

Country life

Local life

Losing battle • Will Zelensky and Putin be brought to an exhausted peace?

Days

Kemi’s great game

Sorry States • Trump has destroyed the special relationship

How Lowe can they go? • The battle between Restore and Reform

There is Within Us Eternal Spring

Save us from the Gospel according to Grok

Snap shut • The real ‘Thucydides Trap’ Beijing and Washington must avoid

Are we allowed to feel angry yet?

Leap of faith • Why I take frog poison

Coming clean • The agony of decluttering my late husband’s home

I’m your man • A nerdy and passionate new book gets to the heart of the late George Michael, writes Lynn Barber

Adventures in wonderland

I robot?

Reversals of fortune • Robin Simon on the art of resurrecting forgotten artists

Mother superior

Here be monsters

Olden but golden

007: First Light

No life

Real life

High life • Exploring Bologna from above

The Wiki Man • Variety is the spice of evolutionary life

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Tequila

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