By Invitation
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
Geopolitics
The West’s values are important, but so is realism, says Finland’s president
The Global South must be courted, even if that means compromising interests, argues Alexander Stubb
French politics
This needn’t be France’s Brexit moment, says its business envoy
Pascal Cagni explains why foreign investors should not panic
Europe’s other flashpoint
NATO must tackle instability in the Balkans, says an ex-head
Russia and China are up to old tricks in the region, argue George Robertson and Andi Hoxhaj
Business and the American election
A business leader on why he’s backing Donald Trump
The Biden administration has played dirty and shown staggering incompetence, argues Joe Lonsdale
The French election
A hard-right government might disrupt France’s relations with Europe
Or it could try to change the EU from within—which would be worse, reckons Jean Pisani-Ferry