Ali Winston

The United States had our modern day John Hinckley Jr. moment last weekend: a gun-crazy kid from Western Pennsylvania took and missed his shot, sparking a two day media cycle (crazy how quick that happens). The wild speculation about the shooter's motivation will take some time to settle,

After a nail-biting few weeks and repeated entreaties from France's semi-finalist football team, France's voters dealt the Neo-Fascist Rassemblement National a shock defeat in yesterday's parliamentary elections, with the Nouvelle Front Populaire left wing coalition coming in first. Add that to Labor's

Oh it's bad. It's definitely worse than you thought. Forget for a moment about the Neo-Nixonian Supreme Court effectively declaring presidents to be above the law for any 'official act' committed in office (killing your own Attorney General, ordering members of Congress to be

Hot enough out there for you? Two thirds of the United States has been under a heat dome all week in what forecasters are calling an abnormally early spike in temperatures - but we'd better get used to it. There are some shoots of green out there in

Ahhh summer. Torrential rain, early fires, a heat wave for 250 million Americans, right wing parties ascendant in Europe - you'd think I'd be drowning in tears. But no, because I'm a simple creature and we are at the start of two straight months