Is Guernica (1937) the most famous piece of political protest art ever made? Probably. Depicting the wailing, the dead, the gorged and dismembered, Picasso’s Cubist mural is so ingrained in our ...

In these agonising moments when, as Michelle Obama put it last summer, “we all have that deep pit in [our] stomach[s], a palpable sense of dread about the future”, there is one question that haunts me ...

Unless the US polls have messed up for the third consecutive presidential election—and later in this blog we shall discuss why they might have done—three lessons can be learned from the battle between ...

“In America, if you say something like, ‘I’m trying to build a global movement of ambitious idealists’, then the response is, ‘Yeah, of course,’” says Rutger Bregman. The historian and writer of ...

The decision by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos last week that his paper would not endorse a candidate in the US election offered a sneak peek into a potentially Trumpian future. It was also a ...

Temporary accommodation is the sharp end of England’s housing crisis. Official data shows that there are now more than 117,000 households in this unenviable situation— an increase of 23 per cent in ...

Changing self-imposed, artificial borrowing rules, as Rachel Reeves did this week in the first Labour Budget in 14 years, cannot alter the fundamentals of the funding difficulties facing the country.

Although TS Eliot was arguably the most influential literary critic of the 20th century, for decades, scholars worked without a collected edition of his critical prose, which was scattered through the ...

American voters are too calm about their coming election. Many in the centre of the ideological spectrum, and particularly those swing state voters who will decide the winner, see this as a time of ...

Alan Rusbridger is the editor of Prospect and the former head of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He was editor of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015.

It has been called a national emergency, an epidemic, and a public health crisis. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is all of those things. In its election manifesto, the Labour party pledged to ...