Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

UNBELIEVABLE: 2 | History Defined

I tried to save the USSR in 1985 with a hip Gen Z leader and all I got for my trouble was a drunk population and total national bankruptcy

It could've worked. It should've.

PC Gamer

Chairman Trump: has the US turned its back on free-market capitalism?

Republicans once believed governments should get out of the way. Trump is making his influence felt in every corner of the American economy

The Guardian - US

China's Rulers Push Party Role Before WWII Anniversary

An elderly Chinese war veteran's shin still bears the mark of a bullet wound he suffered when fighting the Japanese as a teenager, a year before the end of World War II. Eighty years on, Li Jinshui's scar remains as testimony to the bravery of Chinese troops in a conflict…

International Business Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

A straight face, with a wink – the subtle humor of deadpan photography

Deadpan is not so much a type of joke as a mode of delivery, a manner of address to an audience that often provokes nervous laughter.

The Conversation

Is MAGA going Marxist and Maoist? Trump's assault on free-market capitalism

Many business leaders are horrified at the prospect of New York City turning socialist under Zohran Mamdani, but Trump's assaults on free-market capitalism make him look like John D. Rockefeller.

Fortune

Shock poll claims Romanians are nostalgic for communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu: Who was he?

A recent survey reveals 66.2% of Romanians believe Nicolae Ceaușescu was a good leader, despite his repressive regime.

Euronews

Forgotten Comic Epics: Rick Remender’s Uncanny X-Force

The Grandfather Paradox is a thought experiment about time travel and paradoxes. It was the plot point of the first Back II The Future film. If you went back in time and killed your grandfather, you would erase yourself from your family’s timeline. So, how could you do this if…

Personal Finance Advice

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

China’s ‘nightmare’ youth revolution was lit by its neurotic authoritarian leader, Mao Zedong. What can we learn from it?

In the 1960s and 70s, the youth of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia rebelled by protesting against the Vietnam War, trying psychedelic drugs, embracing free love and discovering the Beatles. Meanwhile, what their contemporaries in China were getting up to was just as transformative.

The Conversation

Inside the Dalai Lama’s succession and what it means for China and the Tibetan struggle

As he turns 90 this week, the Dalai Lama has announced that he will be reincarnated, setting his followers on a collision course with China. Alisha Rahaman Sarkar speaks to activists and the president of the Tibetan government-in-exile about what this means for the future of Tibetan Buddhism

The Independent UK

Harvard battle is Trump’s ‘Mao moment’: lessons from China’s state-sanctioned university crackdown

During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary bourgeois intellectuals. After closing for a period, China’s universities reopened on a limited basis from 1970, with selection criteria based on class background, revolutionary…

The Conversation

25 Of The Biggest Mistakes That Changed The Course Of History

Destroyed centuries of knowledge. Whoopsie.

Bored Panda

Trump risks driving Europe into China’s embrace. Xi Jinping will be delighted

As the US descends into chaos, China is pitching itself as the steadier player. But Europe should be wary of its advances, says Orville Schell of the Center on US-China Relations at Asia Society

The Guardian - UK

Why Trump fails to understand China’s trade war tactics, and what his negotiators should be reading

As US and Chinese representatives prepare to meet in Switzerland in an effort to ease their escalating trade war, a potential sign of Beijing’s approach has emerged in an opinion piece published in the state-owned journal Beijing Daily.

The Conversation

Victims of Communism Day - 2025

May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.

Reason

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Salon

Elon's "tech-bro Maoism" is nothing new

The 20th century was full of techno-utopian visions of the ideal future society. None of them ended well

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Speed; Shanghai Dolls – review

Mohamed-Zain Dada makes a darkly comic drama out of a speed awareness course, while clever design elevates Amy Ng’s play about Madame Mao

The Independent UK

Divided loyalties? 62 Taiwanese military members found with Chinese residency permits

In the latest revelation of Chinese influence among the Taiwanese armed forced, at least 62 active-duty Taiwanese service members have been found holding Chinese residency permits

The Guardian - UK

What does China really think of Trump? That he and vengeful Chairman Mao would have got on well

Many see parallels with the architect of the Cultural Revolution. Both relished disruption and have exploited the power of the mob, says the Guardian’s foreign leader writer Tania Branigan

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Shanghai Dolls at the Kiln Theatre review: undeniably impressive

3/5 Two women across six decades of upheaval are covered in this astonishing true story of Mao Zedong’s revolution

The Independent UK

In Shanghai Dolls, Madame Mao’s life story of art, revolution and resentment is undone by clichés

2/5 This real-life tale of Mao’s wife and the first female director of China fails to meet its own potential

The Guardian - AU

Life in Shanghai, China’s commercial capital, goes on but anti-US sentiment is hardening

Chinese companies are relieved Trump’s wider tariffs have been paused but on social media, posts are full of defiance

The Independent UK

What the capture of Chinese soldiers says about Beijing’s role in Ukraine

NEWS ANALYSIS: The emergence of Chinese combatants in Donetsk – astutely publicised by Ukraine just as America is in a trade showdown with China – has illuminated the shadows of a very modern conflict, writes Michael Sheridan

Latin Times

Musk Promotes Post Declaring Hitler Was Not Responsible For Murdering 'Millions of People'

Elon Musk is under fire for amplifying a tweet that downplays the responsibility of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong for mass killings.

The Guardian - UK

Mao Zedong’s first Little Red Book had blue cover and less propaganda

Rare early editions of book by communist party chairman, who shunned the idea of wealth, set to go on sale for £1m

Reason

Sean McMeekin: Don't Whitewash the History of Communism

Historian Sean McMeekin dissects how communism has enduring and resurgent appeal in the West despite its history of violence and economic disaster.

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

International Monetary Fund

the Trump Administration

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.