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UNITED STATES

Zohran Mamdani: ‘Democracy doesn’t work if people can’t afford their basic needs’

Eight months ago, he became New York’s first socialist mayor on the promise that another way of doing politics is possible. Though he has no shortage of critics, the energy of the Mamdani effect can be felt across the city and within the Democratic Party nationwide. His guiding principle is that politics should improve the lives of working-class people

Leo XIV, the peacemaker
Leo XIV

Leo XIV, the peacemaker

Robert Prevost has gone from being an enigma, someone who seemed timid, to becoming a revelation in just two months. A calm man whose primary concern is bridging divides, he has emerged as a surprising antagonist to Trump and has lashed out against Silicon Valley’s techno-fascism. What is this pope thinking, and why has he been so disconcerting?

Pelicot Case

Gisèle Pelicot: ‘Society was not prepared for a case like mine’

For 10 years, her husband drugged her so that more than 80 men could rape her while he filmed it all. In 2022, the case came to light, and two years later, Mr Pelicot and 50 of his attackers were convicted in a trial that Gisèle Pelicot insisted be public. The shame had to change sides. Now she tells her story in a book. We met in Paris with this lucid woman who has become a symbol of the fight against sexual violence