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Cracks in the ice • Trump’s Greenland strategy could imperil his legacy

NATO’s Suez moment • The US is no longer Europe’s guarantor

SPECTATOR ACADEMY READING LIST • Each issue we ask a different contributor to recommend ten books every American should read to revive their mind and our shared culture. Here are Jacob Heilbrunn’s.

Wrecking ball • Will Trump face a domestic backlash over his Greenland caper?

Oceans apart • The decision to hand over the Chagos Islands has left the British PM isolated

Serious beef • EU farmers’ objections to a South American trade deal

Protection equals sovereignty

Meet the male Kardashians

Scam states • Inside the Cambodian cybercrime compounds run by Chinese gangs

Great Scott • Remembering the creator of Dilbert

The deep-state vampire

Screen test • Unmasking the true TV villains

Sexual healing • I’ve had enough of misogynistic sex-confessionals

There should be no ‘sanctuary’ from ICE

Gold rush • There’s no reason to stop buying precious metals

Rage against the machine • The clamor against X’s lurid deepfakes is still an attack on freedom of speech

War on censors • Congress must shield the US from foreign attacks on the First Amendment

Northern exposure • Data is the reason the Arctic has become a key battleground

Sound and fury • The Venezuela operation signals a shift in sonic warfare

Warning lights • The drive toward electric cars has been a disaster

False advertising • AI marketing is driving me to distraction

Inside story • Nicolas Sarkozy’s prison memoir is a compelling portrait of France itself, writes Ian Maxwell

Terror squad

Drive through history

Allergic to experts

A view set in stone

Potted history • Two major exhibitions by Edmund de Waal show the artist’s extraordinary depth, writes James Cahill

It’s good to walk

To see, or not to see?

Behind the auteur

Managing decline

January

New York life

Best life

Country life

American life

Kitchen karma • The mindfulness behind the cooking of Buddhist nun Jeong Kwan

Pit stop

A slice of nostalgia • Hunting for the Pizza Hut of my youth

Sex sells • Why I can’t resist a red-light district

Long hair

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