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In a bid to exercise absolute power, today’s crop of authoritarian leaders is recruiting – and exploiting – believers, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The new management team at the watchdog must make sure staff are fit to practise and must learn from its past mistakes

This week, Mexico’s president was groped in public. But a New York Times podcast is fretting about excessive wokeness

Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’

Last weekend’s Cambridgeshire train attack brought up a question that we often ask ourselves. But the answer isn’t simple, says psychologist Emma Kavanagh

A few years ago, when you said “Thailand” to an Indian man, his face would undergo a minor muscular transformation. A smirk would appear on face that can be interpreted as half-guilt for the sins he’s committed or half-anticipation for the sins he desires to commit.  

Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

After Claudia Sheinbaum was assaulted this week, her opponents claimed she staged it. From their own experiences, the women I met know she didn’t have to, says author Mona Eltahawy

In 1975, few Australians believed the dismissal of a democratically elected government was business as usual

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Starmer’s government has been busy emulating the ‘chaos and confusion’ that characterised the final days of the last Conservative administration, ahead of a Budget that will be profoundly depressing. If Labour is hoping to revive its fortunes, it will need to get a grip

Editorial: The increasing ferocity and frequency of tropical storms imposes an unbearable burden on countries including Jamaica