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What should Australians do when the heat is on?

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It Might Be Time To Face Some Cold

Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now

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Allan Behm

Europe faces a pincer attack from White House ideologues backed by Silicon Valley and its far-right proxies

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Armida Van Rij

Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility

They are far into the lethal zone. Three people who are being held in prison on charges connected with the protest group Palestine Action have been...

yesterday 200

George Monbiot

Surprise dip in inflation a lightbulb moment – but RBA unlikely to deliver interest rate bargains

A new year and we are straight back into talk of inflation. But while the November inflation figures released on Wednesday were lower than...

yesterday 10

Greg Jericho

The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state

When a bleary-eyed Trump explained the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro this past Saturday, he invoked the Monroe doctrine: while the US president...

yesterday 50

Jan-Werner Müller

Rosalía’s Lux is more than epic Catholic pop – it grapples with a world fraught with complexity and crisis

I went into Lux primed not to like it. Not because I doubt Rosalía’s virtuosic talents or her intense intellectual curiosity, but because the...

yesterday 20

Carlos Delclós

Keir Starmer has a historic opportunity to fix this awful Brexit – if he follows this plan

Good things may come to those who wait, but when it comes to repairing the Brexit settlement Britain was left with by Boris Johnson, the waiting...

yesterday 10

Naomi Smith

New year resolutions? How to free yourself from brain rot in 2026

yesterday 10

Look!! A Bird!!

Democrats can win back the White House in 2028. Here’s how

By January 2029, Donald Trump will be capping off a nearly 14-year stretch at the helm of American politics. While he will no longer serve as...

yesterday 10

Colin Seeberger

We study glaciers. ‘Artificial glaciers’ and other tech may halt their total collapse

Sea levels are rising faster than at any point in human history, and for every foot that waters rise, 100 million people lose their homes. At...

yesterday 10

Brent Minchew And Colin Meyer

Is Starmer’s reluctance to criticise Trump smart tactics – or the sign of a man without a plan?

For an inveterate liar, Donald Trump is remarkably honest. The best guide to what he thinks is what he says. When forecasting his likely course of...

yesterday 30

Rafael Behr

If Donald Trump thinks Greenland should be his, how long before he sets his sights on Scotland?

‘We do need Greenland, absolutely,” Donald Trump told the Atlantic on 5 January, with the hand-wavy follow-up, “We need it for defence.” His...

yesterday 8

Zoe Williams

The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: time to move together, faster and further

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan for 2026 was to talk more about the domestic issues that concern British voters. Donald Trump knocked that plan off course....

yesterday 20

Editorial

The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house-room to an ill-advised debate

Most readers of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun will have been moved by the portrait of its eponymous AI narrator. As a solar-powered...

yesterday 10

Editorial

Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland – cartoon

yesterday 10

Polly Hudson

We live in a surveillance culture – but why would I want to track my son or husband?

News just in: the sky is blue, water is wet, and tracking our kids’ every move with phones or AirTags is causing a “deeply concerning” increase in...

yesterday 5

Polly Hudson

‘For a moment, only that story matters’: my plan to reignite the all-consuming love of books

A girl on the cusp of adolescence gazes down at a book. Her left hand rests against her flushed pink cheeks, while her right clutches the pages,...

yesterday 5

Polly Hudson

Nicki Minaj’s Maga conversion is doing nothing for her career – or is it?

Starships are meant to fly, but Nicki Minaj’s musical career is now doing a Maga-propelled nosedive. For the past few months, the rapper and former...

yesterday 30

Arwa Mahdawi

Is your community bushfire ready? In Cobargo after black summer we don’t just have a plan, we have one another

As extreme heat grips large parts of Australia this week, the time for preparation is now, not when flames are visible or evacuation orders sound....

yesterday 40

Zena Armstrong

Elon Musk is moving back into politics. Can’t he take up a new hobby instead?

“You know, I’ve generally found that when I get involved in politics, it ends up badly,” Elon Musk mused on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast in...

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Arwa Mahdawi

I got married twice in my 20s. Now I’m in love with my midlife situationship

We were just two midlifers in our 50s who met back in 2020 using a popular dating app. Bored, lonely and emerging from lockdown we jumped at the...

previous day 40

Natasha Ginnivan

Many schools don’t think students can read full novels anymore. That’s a tragedy

Reading fiction has been such a joy for me that my heart broke a little to learn recently that many schools no longer assign full books to high...

previous day 20

Margaret Sullivan

What did I learn from a new – and very random – poll? Our interior lives are much weirder than I thought

New polling just dropped from TV’s channel 5, conducted by More in Common, about a range of topics that fall under the umbrella, “every little...

previous day 10

Zoe Williams

Male bonds develop one way, female friendships another. Should we stop trying to make men more like women?

It’s good to talk. Or so men are always being told, by everyone from mental health campaigners to the women they live with, bemused by the male...

previous day 40

Gaby Hinsliff

Why the surprise over Trump’s Venezuela coup? US presidents promise isolation – and deliver war

It is starting to trickle out. Last week in Caracas was not an invasion, it was a putsch. It was the militarised kidnap of one ruler to aid his...

previous day 10

Simon Jenkins

Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will

It’s a sickening law of the internet that the first thing people will try to do with a new tool is strip women. Grok, X’s AI chatbot, has been used...

previous day 3

Sophia Smith Galer

Trump is marching into 2026 with the worst cabinet in history

As 2024 ended and Donald Trump’s cabinet picks were rolled out, commentators scrambled to decide which one was the worst. Was it Matt Gaetz for...

previous day 8

Austin Sarat

Greta Thunberg came to stay – and my kid may have inadvertently helped her get arrested

It was 6am. London. A few days before Christmas. My four-year-old is singing at the top of her lungs and charging around my parents’ house on a...

previous day 40

Arwa Mahdawi

Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid

There is no two without a three, as we say in Italian. After their complicit silence on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and their tacit acceptance of...

previous day 100

Nathalie Tocci

Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start

As Venezuela’s skyline lit up under US bombs, we were watching the morbid symptoms of a declining empire. That may sound counterintuitive. After...

previous day 200

Owen Jones

Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization

Trump’s domestic and foreign policies – ranging from his attempted coup against the United States five years ago, to his incursion into Venezuela...

previous day 200

Robert Reich

We can safely experiment with reflecting sunlight away from Earth. Here’s how

The world is warming fast – and our options to avoid catastrophic harm are narrowing. 2024 was the first full year more than 1.5C hotter than the...

previous day 10

Dakota Gruener And Daniele Visioni

Is Trump really as lawless as he seems? Or is he just a law unto himself?

previous day 30

It’S Open To Interpretation

Forget all the artisanal cheese. French crisps are absolutely depraved

I spent Christmas in France, which was on its best behaviour: tasteful, twinkling lights, market stalls stacked with exquisitely fresh fruit and...

previous day 10

Emma Beddington

It’s not easy being an English northerner surrounded by southerners. Here’s how we survive

Of course they weren’t being mean, but each time my university friends jokingly echoed my Leeds-accented “no” with a noise that is perhaps best...

previous day 10

Robyn Vinter

The Guardian view on Trump’s raid in Caracas: oil matters, but it’s not the whole story

It’s all about oil. That was the reason Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader illegally abducted by US forces at the weekend, had given for Donald...

previous day 60

Editorial

Nine scientific breakthroughs I’d like to see in 2026 – from earworms to procrastination

People who greet the new year with hope, ambitious plans and optimised gut microbiomes might be obnoxiously apparent at the moment, but we all know...

monday 20

Emma Beddington

For Americans, 2026 started with two starkly different visions for the country

The new year opened with a pair of scenes that illustrated the great divide within the US and the stakes of the ongoing contest over its future. On...

monday 30

Moira Donegan

Trump’s Venezuela invasion sets a perilous precedent

No matter how you slice it, Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is an act of naked aggression. It is blatantly illegal and sets a disturbing...

monday 40

Kenneth Roth

Who does new year Keir look like after his reset? Last year Keir – and that’s a huge problem

Keir Starmer kicked off the political new year with a fascinating and revealing 45-minute-long interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. The...

monday 30

John Mcternan

With Trump’s military action in Venezuela, the US has made every other country less safe

The US military operation in Venezuela undermines a fundamental principle of international law, agreed after the horrors of two world wars and the...

monday 20

Volker Türk

As we farewelled Ronda our soft-hearted labrador, the grief was as painful as any I’ve felt

Each time a family dog dies, I go over it all again and decide that the intense grief is far outweighed by the joy the animal brought to our lives....

monday 20

Paul Daley

Ever been caught short? Here’s the good news: a great British toilet revolution could be on the way

Why do we have so few public toilets in UK cities? It’s hard to think of two more fundamental social needs than a) not being forced to relieve...

monday 10

Eddie Blake

The Guardian view on the junk food advertising ban: shaping tastes is a job for government

After years of wrangling, from this week new rules shield children in the UK from junk food advertisements. Those featuring processed food and...

monday 20

Editorial

The awkward truth about some of Trump’s views on Europe? European leaders agree with him

I expected the EU to push back strongly against Donald Trump’s new national security strategy. Not only does it show contempt for the EU and its...

monday 50

Shada Islam

The US violated international law in Venezuela. These are the questions Australia must now ask

No matter how the Trump administration seeks to justify its actions in seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in an audacious...

monday 40

Donald Rothwell

I’m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront

It was my blue shirt, a present from my sister-in-law, that gave it all away. It made me think of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, the lowly bureaucrat...

monday 40

Yanis Varoufakis

Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that

I never thought it possible that you could look back on the Iraq war, and the foreign invasions of the “war on terror” in general, and feel some...

monday 100

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What should Australians do when the heat is on?

It Might Be Time To Face Some Cold

Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now

Allan Behm

Europe faces a pincer attack from White House ideologues backed by Silicon Valley and its far-right proxies

Armida Van Rij

Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos

Aditya Chakrabortty

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility

George Monbiot

Surprise dip in inflation a lightbulb moment – but RBA unlikely to deliver interest rate bargains

Greg Jericho

The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state

Jan-Werner Müller

Rosalía’s Lux is more than epic Catholic pop – it grapples with a world fraught with complexity and crisis

Carlos Delclós

Keir Starmer has a historic opportunity to fix this awful Brexit – if he follows this plan

Naomi Smith

New year resolutions? How to free yourself from brain rot in 2026

Look!! A Bird!!

Democrats can win back the White House in 2028. Here’s how

Colin Seeberger

We study glaciers. ‘Artificial glaciers’ and other tech may halt their total collapse

Brent Minchew And Colin Meyer

Is Starmer’s reluctance to criticise Trump smart tactics – or the sign of a man without a plan?

Rafael Behr

If Donald Trump thinks Greenland should be his, how long before he sets his sights on Scotland?

Zoe Williams

The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: time to move together, faster and further

Editorial

The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house-room to an ill-advised debate

Editorial

Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland – cartoon

Polly Hudson

We live in a surveillance culture – but why would I want to track my son or husband?

Polly Hudson

‘For a moment, only that story matters’: my plan to reignite the all-consuming love of books

Polly Hudson

Nicki Minaj’s Maga conversion is doing nothing for her career – or is it?

Arwa Mahdawi

Is your community bushfire ready? In Cobargo after black summer we don’t just have a plan, we have one another

Zena Armstrong

Elon Musk is moving back into politics. Can’t he take up a new hobby instead?

Arwa Mahdawi

I got married twice in my 20s. Now I’m in love with my midlife situationship

Natasha Ginnivan

Many schools don’t think students can read full novels anymore. That’s a tragedy

Margaret Sullivan

What did I learn from a new – and very random – poll? Our interior lives are much weirder than I thought

Zoe Williams

Male bonds develop one way, female friendships another. Should we stop trying to make men more like women?

Gaby Hinsliff

Why the surprise over Trump’s Venezuela coup? US presidents promise isolation – and deliver war

Simon Jenkins

Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will

Sophia Smith Galer

Trump is marching into 2026 with the worst cabinet in history

Austin Sarat

Greta Thunberg came to stay – and my kid may have inadvertently helped her get arrested

Arwa Mahdawi

Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid

Nathalie Tocci

Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start

Owen Jones

Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization

Robert Reich

We can safely experiment with reflecting sunlight away from Earth. Here’s how

Dakota Gruener And Daniele Visioni

Is Trump really as lawless as he seems? Or is he just a law unto himself?

It’S Open To Interpretation

Forget all the artisanal cheese. French crisps are absolutely depraved

Emma Beddington

It’s not easy being an English northerner surrounded by southerners. Here’s how we survive

Robyn Vinter

The Guardian view on Trump’s raid in Caracas: oil matters, but it’s not the whole story

Editorial

Nine scientific breakthroughs I’d like to see in 2026 – from earworms to procrastination