America’s loosening grip: inside the 17 April Guardian Weekly

The decline of US hegemony. Plus: Hungary’s new dawn Get the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home address At the end of 2025, Patrick Wintour wrote a compelling essay for Guardian Weekly in which he described an interregnum in global history, where the rules-based order had been eroded and great powers once again jostled for control and influence. This week’s edition sees Patrick return to a key aspect of that theme, the deteriorating global standing of the United States after a period of high-stakes brinkmanship with Iran.