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The Republicans’ latest Clinton stunt will not work

The Republicans’ latest Clinton stunt will not work

I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that, somewhere in a makeshift situation room in Mar-a-Lago, there’s a whiteboard with “very high IQ strategies to...

yesterday 10

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Arwa Mahdawi

Americans disapprove of Trump’s foreign policy. His escapades are likely to cost him

Americans disapprove of Trump’s foreign policy. His escapades are likely to cost him

Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg since his 3 January seizure of the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has been guided by his triumph of the will, as he...

yesterday 9

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Sidney Blumenthal

Racial quotas for immigration are back

Racial quotas for immigration are back

On 14 January, the Trump administration announced a stop on issuing immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America...

yesterday 8

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Heba Gowayed

The hill I will die on: Stag and hen dos should be fun, not bankrupting endurance tests

The hill I will die on: Stag and hen dos should be fun, not bankrupting endurance tests

A stag or hen do should be a straightforward, fun night celebrating a good friend moving into a new chapter of their life. Instead, thanks to films...

yesterday 9

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Liam Pape

Samuel Ojo on competitive pressure at the gym – cartoon

yesterday 10

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Mara Wilson

My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare

My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare

When I was a little girl, there was nothing scarier than a stranger. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, kids were told, by our parents, by TV...

yesterday 9

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Mara Wilson

For all the talk of Australian values our rights as citizens and humans remain fragile

yesterday 2

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Julianne Schultz

Does my obsession with old trinkets make me a hoarder or a sentimental maximalist?

yesterday 2

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Eleanor Burnard

I went to A&E with a broken wrist and caught a dose of ‘I’ve been lucky’ syndrome

I went to A&E with a broken wrist and caught a dose of ‘I’ve been lucky’ syndrome

It was a bad start to the new year. Slipping on ice, I fell and broke my right wrist, so now I can’t hold a pen with my writing hand. But my...

yesterday 40

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Polly Toynbee

The life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops

The life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops

“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carlos, the African American sprinter who raised his fist in a black power salute from the...

yesterday 70

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Gary Younge

French farmers wrongly accuse Brussels of betrayal. Macron’s complicity could help the far right to victory

French farmers wrongly accuse Brussels of betrayal. Macron’s complicity could help the far right to victory

Once again, France’s farmers have been blocking motorways with their tractors in protest, this time at an impending EU trade agreement with a group...

yesterday 10

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Paul Taylor

I never thought I’d see an asylum hotel on fire, or worry about my staff’s safety. The past five years changed that

I never thought I’d see an asylum hotel on fire, or worry about my staff’s safety. The past five years changed that

It is difficult to think of another area of government policy that has weathered as much legislative hyperactivity as asylum and migration. I have...

previous day 60

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Enver Solomon

Are our bodies full of microplastics or not? There’s a way to resolve this debate, and scientists must hurry

Are our bodies full of microplastics or not? There’s a way to resolve this debate, and scientists must hurry

Are we being injured and killed by ubiquitous, teeny-tiny shards of toxic plastic? Or aren’t we? For many months, the Guardian has reported a...

previous day 30

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Debora Mackenzie

Aside from creepy surveillance, what are ‘consumer-ready’ service robots actually for?

Aside from creepy surveillance, what are ‘consumer-ready’ service robots actually for?

There’s something particularly dystopian about watching the mute headlines of daytime television play at the gym. It feels like a movie montage;...

previous day 10

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Samantha Floreani

By seeking to defuse domestic tensions over Gaza, West Midlands police ended up making matters worse

By seeking to defuse domestic tensions over Gaza, West Midlands police ended up making matters worse

It was an infamous night in football. More than 5,000 Dutch police officers had to be deployed to contain hundreds of Israeli fans embarking on a...

previous day 20

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Gaby Hinsliff

Say what you will about Trump, but unlike Starmer he knows his own power – and how to use it

Say what you will about Trump, but unlike Starmer he knows his own power – and how to use it

Last weekend, as the world wondered whether Donald Trump would swipe Greenland, Keir Starmer made his own big geographic intervention: he published...

previous day 40

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into ‘great spaces’ found a new advocate in Trump?

Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into ‘great spaces’ found a new advocate in Trump?

It is axiomatic to many of his critics that the US president, Donald Trump, is a fascist. Indeed, some have seen echoes of the work of the Nazis’ “...

previous day 60

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Brendan Simms

The Guardian view on Trump’s world: from Venezuela to Iran to Greenland, the madness is the method

The Guardian view on Trump’s world: from Venezuela to Iran to Greenland, the madness is the method

The Middle East was braced on Wednesday night, but the anxious petitioning of Gulf states and Iran’s attempts to appease the US president appeared...

previous day 50

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Craig Guildford’s departure: right decision, dangerous implications

The Guardian view on Craig Guildford’s departure: right decision, dangerous implications

After refusing to walk, in a manner reminiscent of Stuart Broad batting against the Australians in the 2013 Ashes, the West Midlands chief...

previous day 10

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Editorial

Mystic Nigel has seen the future: a country run by his cabinet of taxidermied Tories

Mystic Nigel has seen the future: a country run by his cabinet of taxidermied Tories

Like a 1970s rust-belt serial killer, Nigel Farage is painstakingly assembling around him the political corpses of Boris Johnson’s final, terrible...

previous day 8

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Marina Hyde

Panicking over Greenland plays into Trump’s hands – it’s time for cool heads and stalling diplomacy

Panicking over Greenland plays into Trump’s hands – it’s time for cool heads and stalling diplomacy

Is Greenland Donald Trump’s 25th-amendment moment? Last time around, this was when the Washington “grownups” debated his capacity to be president,...

previous day 6

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Simon Jenkins

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich

There is one political problem from which all others follow. It is the major cause of Donald Trump, of Nigel Farage, of the shocking weakness of...

previous day 6

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George Monbiot

Don’t look away as the people of Iran cry out for our help

Don’t look away as the people of Iran cry out for our help

Did you notice history being made this week? I am not referring to what may have been the most pathetic moment in recorded time – Donald Trump...

previous day 6

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Jonathan Freedland

Trump has pulled back from the brink on Iran – for now

Trump has pulled back from the brink on Iran – for now

Will Donald Trump order a US military attack on Iran? That question captivated the world for the past two weeks, as the US president issued...

previous day 6

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Mohamad Bazzi

Is Greenland showing Trump’s true colours?

previous day 10

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Mohamad Bazzi

Are Trader Joe’s tote bags the last vestige of American soft power?

Are Trader Joe’s tote bags the last vestige of American soft power?

There aren’t many escapes from the grim onslaught of terrible news these days. You can stare at a blank wall, obsessively count the hairs on your...

previous day 6

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Dave Schilling

So much for a ‘final battle’ – once again the Iranian people’s peaceful and democratic demands have been silenced

So much for a ‘final battle’ – once again the Iranian people’s peaceful and democratic demands have been silenced

In late December, Iran experienced the beginnings of an uprising driven primarily by economic pressures, initially emerging among merchant bazaaris...

previous day 6

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Behrouz Boochani And Mehdi Jalali Tehrani

The Guardian view on ICE and Renee Good’s killing: Trumpism’s brutal tactics don’t end with migrants

The Guardian view on ICE and Renee Good’s killing: Trumpism’s brutal tactics don’t end with migrants

In Minnesota, armed and masked agents are ripping families apart. They are seizing parents while they wait with their child at a bus stop, going...

previous day 70

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Robert Jenrick’s defection: Britain’s right is in a crisis of its own making

The Guardian view on Robert Jenrick’s defection: Britain’s right is in a crisis of its own making

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch’s decision to sack her shadow justice minister, Robert Jenrick, due to his impending defection was not so...

previous day 10

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Editorial

After all these years, I still hate wearing specs

After all these years, I still hate wearing specs

I hate my glasses. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Not just these I’m wearing now, but whichever spectacles I’ve been cursed to...

thursday 10

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Adrian Chiles

My Danish-Indian family has experienced empire first-hand. For all of us, Trump’s imperialism is terrifying

My Danish-Indian family has experienced empire first-hand. For all of us, Trump’s imperialism is terrifying

As an American of mixed Danish and Indian heritage, who is also a citizen of France and, therefore, of the EU, Donald Trump’s contempt for the rule...

thursday 50

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Mira Kamdar

My favourite Lebanese restaurant has closed and I am bereft. Abdul’s, I’m sorry I took you for granted

My favourite Lebanese restaurant has closed and I am bereft. Abdul’s, I’m sorry I took you for granted

What is the name for the grief of losing a restaurant? Surely the Germans have a word for it. Many Sydneysiders will be keening and lighting...

thursday 30

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Emily Mulligan

Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale

Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale

The year has started out in familiar fashion for Kalaallit – the people of Greenland. The US president has once again threatened to take control of...

thursday 20

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Malu Rosing

An expulsion, a smirking leader and now a defection: it’s episode one, series one of the Farage/Jenrick show

An expulsion, a smirking leader and now a defection: it’s episode one, series one of the Farage/Jenrick show

The best thing right now would be to read the turmoil in the Tory party as told by the spy novelist Len Deighton. He would give us more detail on...

thursday 9

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Zoe Williams

The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding

The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding

The raid of a journalist’s home, along with the jailing of their alleged source, are shocking acts of authoritarianism. And they are in line with...

thursday 20

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Seth Stern And Chip Gibbons

I know the terrible cost of speaking out in Iran – and I beg the world to stand with those speaking out now

I know the terrible cost of speaking out in Iran – and I beg the world to stand with those speaking out now

It has been more than 40 years since I was imprisoned in Iran for speaking out against human rights abuses and state executions, and for defending...

thursday 10

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Nasrin Parvaz

The problem with Australian men? They simply don’t know how to flirt

The problem with Australian men? They simply don’t know how to flirt

A few months ago, I posted a viral video online highlighting the flirting differences between American and Australian men. Prompted by a recent...

thursday 10

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Louis Hanson

Whether or not Trump invades Greenland, this much is clear: the western order we once knew is history

Whether or not Trump invades Greenland, this much is clear: the western order we once knew is history

Donald Trump is threatening to take over Greenland, the territory of a Nato ally, possibly by military force, as Vladimir Putin is trying to take...

thursday 70

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Timothy Garton Ash

The world of today looks bad, but take hope: we’ve been here before and got through it – and we will again

The world of today looks bad, but take hope: we’ve been here before and got through it – and we will again

From Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand, as the old hymn has it, we seem to inhabit a world that is more seriously troubled in...

thursday 80

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Martin Kettle

Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium

Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium

Billionaire and career Bond-villain cosplayer Elon Musk has been forced by public backlash into a humiliating backdown over use of his AI chatbot,...

thursday 60

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Van Badham

Labour and the Tories are banking on a return to the ‘old normal’. That’s not what voters want

Labour and the Tories are banking on a return to the ‘old normal’. That’s not what voters want

Unpopular politicians take consolation in the thought that opinion polls are sometimes wrong and often describe the wrong thing. They capture the...

14.01.2026 3

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Rafael Behr

I’m taking eight months’ paternity leave – and it’s changing my relationship with my children

I’m taking eight months’ paternity leave – and it’s changing my relationship with my children

When I told people I was taking more than eight months of parental leave, the main reactions I got were: “What are you going to do with all that...

14.01.2026 2

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Ilyas Nagdee

The Trump dynasty could run and run – but will Ivanka, Barron or Kai take the crown?

The Trump dynasty could run and run – but will Ivanka, Barron or Kai take the crown?

Last week Kai Trump, Donald Trump Jr’s daughter and the president’s eldest grandchild, publicly declared she had no plans to run for office. The...

14.01.2026 2

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Arwa Mahdawi

In a world going to hell, investors are flocking to gold. Australia could have had much more of it

In a world going to hell, investors are flocking to gold. Australia could have had much more of it

So far this month Donald Trump has ordered a military incursion into Venezuela and the capture of its leader, announced he is ready to “take”...

14.01.2026 10

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Greg Jericho

With this record wind power auction, we’ve proved the rightwing doubters wrong

With this record wind power auction, we’ve proved the rightwing doubters wrong

In the 18 months since I became energy secretary, the government has made a simple argument: that if we want to bring down energy bills for good,...

14.01.2026 10

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Ed Miliband

We are overwhelmed with stuff. How do we say ‘enough’ in this world of abundance?

We are overwhelmed with stuff. How do we say ‘enough’ in this world of abundance?

Ten years ago, a postie delivered eight packages to my door. Each one contained something for me to photograph and promote on social media, and the...

14.01.2026 20

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Jodi Wilson

Banning organisations has a sorry history – does Australia really want to go down this road again?

Banning organisations has a sorry history – does Australia really want to go down this road again?

Australia’s history of banning political groups gives pause for thought as to whether we really want to go down this route again. During the first...

14.01.2026 3

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Anne Twomey

Donald Trump is waging war against human conscience

Donald Trump is waging war against human conscience

It’s garnered less attention than the other events of our already wretched new year. But to understand why Renee Nicole Good was killed on...

14.01.2026 10

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Osita Nwanevu

Cities and states must hold ICE accountable for violence. The feds won’t

Cities and states must hold ICE accountable for violence. The feds won’t

Last Wednesday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old American mother. Already, the federal...

14.01.2026 10

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Kristy Parker And Samantha Trepel

I witnessed the brutality of America’s prisons first hand. We need urgent reform

I witnessed the brutality of America’s prisons first hand. We need urgent reform

When a camera records an act of lethal violence against someone in official custody, the state cannot hide what it typically keeps in the dark....

14.01.2026 10

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Alex Duran