Opinions

Lula da Silva beat Flávio Bolsonaro to win a fourth term as Brazil’s president. .

After years of outrage or numbness being the main options for dealing with politics, Tuesday’s results were permission to be optimistic.

What do we actually mean by “equality”? Few thinkers have answered that question better than Elizabeth Anderson: not identical outcomes but a society where no one gets to dominate anyone else, including at work.

A decade of political misery does terrible things to the mind. Tuesday’s wins came with a sense of unreality.

After this week’s elections, Democratic congresspeople from working-class backgrounds are set to grow their numbers by 75%. They have a chance to push the party’s agenda in a pro-worker direction. .

Democrats won over rural voters from Maga in the midterms by focusing more on working people and less on culture wars.

Populism isn’t just a switch the GOP could have chosen to flip on in this election but didn’t. .

Yes, the Republicans suffered humiliating defeat. But the fact that a Trump presidency was even possible means something like it could happen again.

Italy’s top court has shut down the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, recognizing that it has become a disastrous health hazard. .

Even Donald Trump has acknowledged that support for Israel is increasingly a political liability in US politics. Will the Democratic leadership listen?

Gavin Newsom’s decision to empty California’s death row saves hundreds of lives and signals a national shift.

It’s important to enjoy the misery of one’s political enemies .

The United Auto Workers backed Abdul El-Sayed in a close Senate primary, then mobilized members across Michigan. .

The blue wave was undeniable. .

The president seems to accept this is his last White House stint and is focused on renovating whatever he can get his little hands on.

The defining feature of Israeli “democracy,” including its elections last week, is its operation according to a Jewish supremacist logic, intensifying the discrimination, oppression, apartheid, mass violence, and genocide against Palestinians.

A note from our US editor: A reckoning is coming, but make no mistake: Trump is still president – we’ll need a free press in 2027 as much as we did in darker days. Please help today if you are able.

In 2008, Barack Obama won a landslide victory and enormous mandate, only to quickly squander it. .

My friend was due to be released next January. Under draconian security laws, his sentence has been extended by 10 years.

What happened to climate injustice? .

Some dismiss books like A Court of Thorns and Roses as mere genre fiction. But reading for pleasure has its own magical power.

The clear-out at the newspaper seems driven less by politics than by a shift towards AI – and journalism will pay the price.

When fewer than half of health service workers have taken up the flu vaccine, there is little hope for the rest of us.

Estimated costs have already risen from £3.5bn to £40bn. The PM should bite the bullet and relocate MPs outside London – permanently.

The Student List has shown my generation, who protested against the Milošević regime in the 1990s, how we should have done it.

The conviction of the comedian for rape and sexual assault upholds the vital principle that women can say no, even after they’ve said yes.

The Democratic Socialists of America have gone from political obscurity to a major force in American politics. .

Amid protests in France, police unions are pushing for wage hikes and special legal privileges to cash in on the political capital they’ve built under Emmanuel Macron’s rule.

Every three years, New Zealanders’ carefully curated ‘nice guy’ persona is put to one side.

For a decade, good-hearted citizens witnessed horrors and insisted: ‘This is not America.’ Finally, the conversation has shifted.

Democratic voters have long sided with socialists on policy but feared they were a liability in elections. .

The real question in my mind is whether Democrats will take advantage of the new age of populism.

Seventy years ago today, Soviet forces crushed the Hungarian uprising that had electrified Eastern Europe. .

Though still a small minority, socialists will soon have more members in Congress than they ever have before. .

The reaction of the bulk of the American people to the cruelty and authoritarianism they’ve seen in the last two years has been abject disgust. .

Zohran Mamdani understood something no one else did: most Donald Trump voters had their reasons for going for Trump, and those reasons were economic. .

The takeaways from the midterms are clear: no amount of billionaire spending could overcome the fact that Donald Trump’s dominance is coming to a close, the Left has much more room to grow, and we have entered a period of new possibility in US politics.

Democrats should take the right lessons from their great night – but will they?

The electorate voted decisively to curb the president’s power.

A look at the polls and Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the midterms campaign trail suggests that MAGA may be exhausted and about to suffer a significant body blow.

Erika Hilton, one of Brazil’s first trans legislators, has brought new energy to the Brazilian left. .

Donavan McKinney, a Democratic Socialists of America–endorsed candidate for the US House in Detroit, is set to win his general election today. .

Endorsing his opponent while the US risks plummeting into fascism, she reveals the one issue that triggers her to take destructive action.

The president has spewed vulgar and hateful rhetoric even as he reveals his disdain for his followers.

Reports have suggested a vulnerable president could start a new bombing campaign. But that wouldn’t bring a deal any closer.

Sites like Kalshi and Polymarket offer faux populism as elites reap the benefits – and voters risk being misled.

From the cheesecake factory discourse to the double Dan Sullivans, campaign season has been ridiculous.

The first lady has been praised for ‘singlehandedly’ brokering a ceasefire in a Ukrainian city – though she may have had some help.

In advance of the midterms, Trump is blaming Kyiv for high gas prices while making clear moves to support Russia.

With his poll numbers tanking and his behavior getting odder, the remark seems more appealing to himself than to voters.

Republican attacks on the candidate for governor are contradictory and hinge on a warped understanding of sexual abuse.

No private individual should have the power to determine US foreign policy, as Musk has attempted to do in Ukraine.

The Democrats have gained new powers to constrain Donald Trump. But the drubbing that Republicans received could yet prompt him to new excesses.

Voters have delivered a damning verdict on Donald Trump’s presidency with this Congressional landslide.

Voters are turning against the Republicans. But the clearest possible message is needed to safeguard democracy.

His chief rival should reject the prime minister’s anti-democratic vision and work with Palestinian Israeli parties.