By Invitation
Unrest in Britain
Margaret Hodge’s lessons from east London on countering the far right
Mainstream parties must win back white working-class voters by focusing on local issues, says the former Labour MP
Venezuela
The real winner of Venezuela’s election urges the regime to face facts
A peaceful transfer of power is still possible, says Edmundo González
Thai politics
Thailand’s thwarted election winner on the move to ban his party
Weaponising the courts to muzzle dissent will fail in the long run, says Pita Limjaroenrat
Artificial intelligence
Keep the code behind AI open, say two entrepreneurs
Martin Casado and Ion Stoica argue that open-source models will power innovation without compromising security
Artificial intelligence
Not all AI models should be freely available, argues a legal scholar
The more capable they are, the greater the risk of catastrophe, reckons Lawrence Lessig
The state of Britain
Neil Kinnock on the post-war-like challenges facing Keir Starmer
A lack of social cohesion compared with 1945 makes them even more daunting, says the former Labour leader and Starmer confidant
The American election
A prominent donor on why the Democrats shouldn’t anoint Kamala Harris
A competition to replace Joe Biden would better serve the party, and the country, argues Joe Ravitch
Games over?
Halt the Olympics to save the planet, pleads a sports historian
David Goldblatt thinks pausing the spectacle might jolt the world into grasping the severity of the climate challenge
Breaking good
Rachael “Raygun” Gunn on the new sport that will invigorate the Olympics
The Australian breaker hopes we’ll all soon be talking about B-Girls, B-Boys and double airflares
British politics
A former adviser to Keir Starmer on what his victory can teach the global left
You don’t have to splurge to woo back working people, says Claire Ainsley
SCOTUS and presidential immunity
Justice Sotomayor was right for the wrong reasons
The Supreme Court’s ruling on prosecuting presidents is mistaken, says Eric Nelson, but not because the founding fathers were anti-monarchists
The American election
A big donor says Joe Biden’s team has gone all Trumpian
The president is deluding himself. Democrats are better than that, says Ari Emanuel