At the beginning of the Cold War, the artist wife of the physicist Alexander Langsdorf came up with the image of the “Doomsday Clock”.

It was the week identity politics ate itself. It was the week we learnt that the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren is between 1/1,024 and 1/64 Native American Indian.

There are autocrats. Look around. According to Freedom House, a quarter of the world’s states are “not free”.

Hoax academic papers expose the intellectual malware in our universities.

Ford v Kavanaugh throws a can of petrol on the bonfire of the legalities.

The president’s tariffs are widely mocked but he has found Xi’s weak spot.

Ten years after the fall of Lehmans, fears of a rerun are growing.

The late senator won’t be the last veteran who runs for president.

If Hillary Clinton were president, Congress would have already impeached her.