When Chlöe Swarbrick became the Greens’ co-leader in March 2024, she announced that she wanted the party to go “mainstream”. Her professed aim was to supplant the Labour Party to ultimately form “the nation’s first Green-led government”, all without compromising the movement’s core values. In June that year, she claimed it was achievable through “mass mobilisation”. A month later, she told the party’s AGM: “We can and we will lead the government in the not-too-distant future. I mean it to the...

There is something deeply satisfying about watching Nicolás Maduro hauled from his palace and deposited in a Brooklyn jail cell. The man was a monster. Under his rule, Venezuela’s economy contracted by roughly three-quarters – the largest peacetime economic collapse in the Western Hemisphere’s modern history. Nearly eight million Venezuelans fled, more than a quarter of the population he inherited. The country that once boasted Latin America’s highest living standards became a humanitarian...

By 2040, New Zealand could still look calm on the surface. Elections would be held. Parliament would sit. Courts would operate. Flags would fly. But if the vision set out in He Puapua were fully implemented, the country beneath those familiar symbols would be fundamentally altered — not by revolution, but by steady, bureaucratic redesign across education, law, land, media, health, and government itself. He Puapua is not a vague discussion paper. It is a roadmap commissioned by government...