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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Graham Snowdon

Trump’s imperial measures: inside the 16 January edition of Guardian Weekly

The cover of the 16 January 2026 edition of the Guardian Weekly magazine showing a composite image of a painting of Napoleon Bonaparte with the face of Donald Trump.
The cover of the 16 January 2026 edition of the Guardian Weekly magazine. Illustration: Guardian Design; GNM Imaging; Getty

We’re just a couple of weeks into 2026 and already it feels like an eternity has passed.

From Venezuela to Greenland, a blitz of revanchist US foreign policy moves by Donald Trump has thrown the world into turmoil. Domestically, it’s little better: in Minneapolis, the killing last week of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent – who was defended aggressively by Trump – prompted shock and fury across America.

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