Joel Schalit / 19 Aug 2026
Good News From The Battleground
Letter From the Editor
It wasn’t supposed to go this well. As July drew to a close, The Battleground recorded its highest monthly readership ever.(...)
United States
Sabina Knight / 15 Aug 2026
Coming to Terms with America
Framing American Democracy: Contemporary Artists Reflect, Wadsworth Atheneum
Beset by fears for US democracy, how do disenchanted Americans celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday?(...)
John Foster / 07 Aug 2026
Far-Right Identity Politics
Why the Left Failed
Why do societies that remain wealthy, educated, and formally democratic struggle to produce citizens who believe in democracy?(...)
Ceuta Shattered the EU Dream
Euroscepticism in an Age of Fascist Creep
Ari Paul / 04 Aug 2026
Netanyahu Über Alles
Ruthless Cosmopolitan
It feels like only yesterday Israel advocates insisted we are free to criticise the Israeli government because they do it all the time.(...)
Mitchell Plitnick / 30 Jul 2026
The War Over Genocide
Israelis, Americans and Gaza
Do Israeli actions in Gaza constitute genocide?(...)
Ari Paul / 27 Jul 2026
Trump, the Left, and the Politics of State Terror
Ruthless Cosmopolitan
Marco Rubio or the late Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber?(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 23 Jul 2026
No Fairy Tale Villain
Demystifying Jeffrey Epstein
Although the Epstein Files could inspire a war on human trafficking, fixation on their exceptional contents threatens to do the opposite.(...)
Ari Paul / 21 Jul 2026
Mahmoud Khalil is Fighting for Us All
Ruthless Cosmopolitan
Mahmoud Khalil’s ordeal has exposed the cruelty of the US’s Black-Red-Green-and-White Scare.(...)