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How intelligence agencies undermine our computer security

Our intelligence agencies are supposed to keep us safe -- so why do they deliberately keep IT security flaws secret from users?

Rundle: the working class is marooned, thus cometh Trump

The Trump movement is carried by a white working class, abandoned 20 years ago, and which has no politically significant space to occupy in post-millennial culture.

Rundle: is the Donald done?

It seems mathematically impossible for Donald Trump to win the presidency. What remains is the scale of the disaster.

There is a great hunger for Trump's vulgar speech, and for good reason

There are those, myself included, who have come to find a tolerant newspeak intolerable -- in my case, not for the future of equality it claims to herald but for the present of inequality it seeks to mask.

Baby bashing and Melania's porn shoot: 72 hours of Trump

It's very difficult to keep track of all of the various ways Donald Trump has screwed up this week. And we have three months to go.

Rundle: Trump v Clinton but a prelude to a sweeping political transformation

Clinton's New Progressivism and Trump's contradictory anti-everything platform

Rundle: Clinton ascends, sets tone for campaign

Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic Party's nomination, calling for unity against Donald Trump.

Rundle: Obama lays a smackdown on Trump at the DNC

Extraordinary performances from Obama and Biden fuelled the Democractic National Convention on its final day.

The hacker hacked: America doesn't like cyber-snooping after all

Americans are angry at the idea of Russian cyber-spies interfering in US politics. Except, the US and its allies do exactly the same thing on a far greater scale.

Rundle: Clinton fest filled with kitsch but, man, what a show!

The Democratic National Convention is a magnificent, relentless spectacle.