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Steve Jones on dangerous tech innovations – cartoon

Steve Jones on dangerous tech innovations – cartoon

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Why Woke 2.0 is taking on Trump and establishment politics | Nesrine Malik | Radical Thinking

Why Woke 2.0 is taking on Trump and establishment politics | Nesrine Malik | Radical Thinking

Watch more episodes of Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty here Aditya’s suggested reading list for Nesrine Malik: In this podcast, Nesrine...

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Podcast

Moscow has shuttered Novaya Gazeta – we told the truth and we paid the price

Moscow has shuttered Novaya Gazeta – we told the truth and we paid the price

Novaya Gazeta – Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper – is being shut down. On 29 October, two things became known: Novaya was being...

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Elena Kostyuchenko

Pineapple on pizza is an insult to our great Italian cuisine – and here’s why we secretly love it

Pineapple on pizza is an insult to our great Italian cuisine – and here’s why we secretly love it

You may have smiled at the news a few days ago: the Italian chef Davide Tamburella was sacked by a Brisbane restaurant after refusing to put pineapple...

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Luca Cesari

The PM’s small measures aim to help the public take back control – and we know how powerful that can be

The PM’s small measures aim to help the public take back control – and we know how powerful that can be

Imagine waking up one morning to find a humiliating video of you, filmed without your knowledge or control, plastered all over social media. Maybe you...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Freezer meltdowns and airline hoaxes are a taste of things to come. Hoping for the best is no longer an option

Freezer meltdowns and airline hoaxes are a taste of things to come. Hoping for the best is no longer an option

It was as though a ghostly hand had switched the settings on supermarket freezers across Europe from “freeze” to “defrost”. From Finland to...

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Elisabeth Braw

Martin Rowson on the aftermath of the US midterm elections – cartoon

Martin Rowson on the aftermath of the US midterm elections – cartoon

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The Guardian view on Russell Brand: his conviction sends a powerful message

The Guardian view on Russell Brand: his conviction sends a powerful message

The conviction of Russell Brand for one rape and three sexual assaults on Thursday would never have happened were it not for the remarkable courage of...

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The Guardian view on the AI backlash: American voters want a say in their future

The Guardian view on the AI backlash: American voters want a say in their future

This week’s midterms showed that the political bill for the AI boom is falling due. The Democratic sweep intensified fears over runaway spending,...

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Editorial

Russell Brand has finally faced justice. But other abusers in comedy are still hiding in plain sight

Russell Brand has finally faced justice. But other abusers in comedy are still hiding in plain sight

I’ve worked in comedy in some capacity for several decades, and I include in that a year in a call centre in north Finchley run by a man who...

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Sarah Solemani

Hong Kong’s prisoners are China’s signal to the world: there is no hope for democracy on its soil

Hong Kong’s prisoners are China’s signal to the world: there is no hope for democracy on its soil

Two years ago, I wrote in this newspaper about the lengthy imprisonment of my friend Joshua Wong, who I spent years campaigning alongside for the...

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Nathan Law

Days after the midterms, Anthony Albanese will have a chance to meet with Trump as he picks up the pieces

Days after the midterms, Anthony Albanese will have a chance to meet with Trump as he picks up the pieces

Just a few weeks ago, Anthony Albanese and his closest advisers thought the possibility of a meeting of the Quad leaders taking place before the end...

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Tom McIlroy

I have flung myself headfirst into Sarah J Maas’s romantasy universe and I find myself a changed woman

I have flung myself headfirst into Sarah J Maas’s romantasy universe and I find myself a changed woman

Fitness influencers love to inform us that “summer bodies are built in winter”, and boy oh boy have I spent the last three colder months in the...

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Johanna Cosgrove

Australia’s coal and gas approvals are starting to stink ahead of Cop31

Australia’s coal and gas approvals are starting to stink ahead of Cop31

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What is this strange, post-election feeling? Oh right – it’s utter joy

What is this strange, post-election feeling? Oh right – it’s utter joy

Late on Tuesday night, the comedian Alex Edelman asked a poignant question on social media: “I know we’ve never had to ask this before tonight,...

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Dave Schilling

After the midterms, the global right is reeling. But the danger of Trumpism will never be gone

After the midterms, the global right is reeling. But the danger of Trumpism will never be gone

He’s down, but not quite out. Barring divine or other intervention, Donald Trump will remain in the Oval Office for a further two years and 10...

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Jonathan Freedland

Goodbye, culture wars: Democrats finally decided to take rural America seriously – and won big

Goodbye, culture wars: Democrats finally decided to take rural America seriously – and won big

Long before Jamie Ager entered politics, he was making a name for himself in a very different place: the meat counter of a grocery store in Boone,...

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Anthony Flaccavento And Erica Etelson

There is a showdown looming in the Democratic party over support for Israel

There is a showdown looming in the Democratic party over support for Israel

Abdul El-Sayed’s victorious path to the US Senate must become a wake-up call to the Democratic party. It shows us, yet again, that Democratic voters...

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Moustafa Bayoumi

Nigel Farage’s exit from the Telegraph may be cause for cheer. But there’s a sobering side to this story

Nigel Farage’s exit from the Telegraph may be cause for cheer. But there’s a sobering side to this story

Nigel Farage has been writing columns for the Daily Telegraph since 2016, most of which have promoted the previously Brexit and now Reform UK party he...

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Jane Martinson

We’ve just seen a transformative moment in America’s death penalty history

We’ve just seen a transformative moment in America’s death penalty history

Gavin Newsom’s decision to empty his state’s death row is a truly remarkable moment in the US’s death penalty history. Not only will it free...

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Austin Sarat

This is an age of anti-vaccine unreason – and even NHS staff are not immune

This is an age of anti-vaccine unreason – and even NHS staff are not immune

Good news. Edward Jenner’s rustic thatched hut in his Gloucestershire garden where he conducted his first smallpox vaccination in 1796 has just been...

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Polly Toynbee

Notre-Dame was restored in five years and under budget. But the Palace of Westminster? No chance

Notre-Dame was restored in five years and under budget. But the Palace of Westminster? No chance

What is the most reactionary public institution in Britain, the most outdated and immune to reform? It is the one that orders us to keep changing:...

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Simon Jenkins

Electoral politics can be fun! What turned voters against Trump?

Electoral politics can be fun! What turned voters against Trump?

US midterm elections 2026 First Dog on the Moon

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Serbia has banished the monsters from Belgrade – it was, and still is, a truly wonderful revolution

Serbia has banished the monsters from Belgrade – it was, and still is, a truly wonderful revolution

On Halloween, a few days after a student-led movement swept aside an illiberal, seemingly invincible regime in my native Serbia, I was sitting on the...

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Barbi Marković

The Guardian view on cocaine and domestic abuse: new links between drugs and crime need investigating

The Guardian view on cocaine and domestic abuse: new links between drugs and crime need investigating

A slight drop in the number of drug deaths over a year in England and Wales is the first such news since 2012. Over the past decade, the grim...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on the midterms and foreign policy: American voters spoke, and now the world waits anxiously

The Guardian view on the midterms and foreign policy: American voters spoke, and now the world waits anxiously

Donald Trump is a president without parallel, but history can still be instructive. Lame duck presidents often focus on foreign policy to escape...

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Editorial

I know the dangers a wounded Trump presents – this is how the UK should deal with him now

I know the dangers a wounded Trump presents – this is how the UK should deal with him now

Election nights are party time in Washington. The bars and restaurants fill up and the city rocks. For diplomats, it’s an opportunity – but it’s...

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Kim Darroch

The Russell Brand verdict is a landmark victory for the understanding of consent

The Russell Brand verdict is a landmark victory for the understanding of consent

With all the sanctimony a born-again Christian rapist can muster, Russell Brand paused on his way into court last week to address reporters. Britain...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Ben Jennings on the billionaires who bent the knee to Trump – cartoon

Ben Jennings on the billionaires who bent the knee to Trump – cartoon

Guardian Opinion cartoon US midterm elections 2026

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Abdul El-Sayed’s victory has laid bare a truth about America’s view on Israel

Abdul El-Sayed’s victory has laid bare a truth about America’s view on Israel

Among the things that Abdul El-Sayed’s victory last night in the Michigan Senate race revealed is this: the debate over US policy toward Israel does...

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Peter Beinart

There’s a new feeling in America as kindness drives out cruelty

There’s a new feeling in America as kindness drives out cruelty

For the past 10 years – such brutally discouraging years in the United States – we’ve been hearing good-hearted citizens put forth something...

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Margaret Sullivan

Seeing Trump and his acolytes lose so spectacularly is powerful schadenfreude for millions across the globe

Seeing Trump and his acolytes lose so spectacularly is powerful schadenfreude for millions across the globe

The last couple of days have been very bad for Donald Trump. Of course, in Trump’s usual style, he is denying that the Republican loss at the...

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Rebecca Shaw

Gangs, gaffes and two guys named Chris: why I’m glued to the 2026 New Zealand election contest

Gangs, gaffes and two guys named Chris: why I’m glued to the 2026 New Zealand election contest

It’s a big week in global politics, as the tension of a critical election crackles like electricity. The fight for the soul of a nation is at stake...

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Clarke Gayford

A progressive understanding of Christianity won in the US elections

A progressive understanding of Christianity won in the US elections

Two-thirds of Americans identify as Christian, but since less than a third of the country actually makes it to church regularly, many rely on what...

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Bill McKibben

Big briefs for men are back – and I couldn’t be happier

Big briefs for men are back – and I couldn’t be happier

I have surprisingly strong feelings about underpants, or rather the celebrities who endorse them. I don’t have skin in the game; I’ve never been a...

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Adrian Chiles

Democrats promised to end corruption. Here’s how they can do that

Democrats promised to end corruption. Here’s how they can do that

Having devoted most of my adult life to reporting on, campaigning against, and exposing the corrosive influence of money in politics, I’m gratified...

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David Sirota

No amount of sliding in the polls can shake Kemi Badenoch’s self-belief – or alter her party’s direction

No amount of sliding in the polls can shake Kemi Badenoch’s self-belief – or alter her party’s direction

What happens to a political leader who is too sure of themself? Sometimes, huge confidence is a very useful, self-fulfilling quality: persuading party...

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Andy Beckett

Art is good for your health? Allow me a quick eyeroll

Art is good for your health? Allow me a quick eyeroll

As the long autumn subsides and we finally head into winter, so we hit that point in the calendar when two rival theories of seasonal survival play...

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Emma Brockes

How irrational are Labour’s plans for migrant workers? To find out, read the small print

How irrational are Labour’s plans for migrant workers? To find out, read the small print

If you want to see the senselessness of Britain’s immigration debate play out in real time, look no further than the crackdown on care workers’...

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Frances Ryan

The Czech government’s new culture war shows the Maga spirit is still alive in Europe

The Czech government’s new culture war shows the Maga spirit is still alive in Europe

Oto Klempíř was for many years the frontman of JAR, a popular Czech funk-rock band. He was expelled from the band last year, not over creative...

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Jan Bělíček

Cornered and dangerous, the lame-duck leader of the free world now poses a greater risk to Australia than ever

Cornered and dangerous, the lame-duck leader of the free world now poses a greater risk to Australia than ever

As the blue wave of unambiguous Maga repudiation crashed over the United States, a former Australian ambassador to Washington issued a warning about...

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Paul Daley

As Australia ponders how to deal with a castrated Trump administration, one lesson is clear: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’

As Australia ponders how to deal with a castrated Trump administration, one lesson is clear: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’

Fascinating, isn’t it, that for all that Donald Trump has got away with, it’s arguably the cost of fuel that’s finally led to an absolute rout...

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Zoe Daniel

Get ready habibis, Abdul El-Sayed’s ‘shawarma law’ is coming to the US

Get ready habibis, Abdul El-Sayed’s ‘shawarma law’ is coming to the US

Repeat after me: yallah. YAH-luh. This versatile Arabic word means everything from “hurry up”, to “come on” to “speak to you later”. If...

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Arwa Mahdawi

The great sleeping giant of the US has awakened

The great sleeping giant of the US has awakened

The great sleeping giant of the US has awakened, taken a hard look at what’s become of the nation, and roared a thunderous “NO!” What occurred...

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Robert Reich

The Guardian view on EU ‘Made in Europe’ rules: a fatal blow to Brexiter delusions

The Guardian view on EU ‘Made in Europe’ rules: a fatal blow to Brexiter delusions

The EU is a constantly evolving institution. The rules keep changing and, since Britain is destined by geography to want a close economic relationship...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on the US midterms: joy for Democrats, a rout for Republicans and a reprieve for democracy

The Guardian view on the US midterms: joy for Democrats, a rout for Republicans and a reprieve for democracy

Bitter experience made Democrats wary of believing that the blue wave predicted by polls would materialise. What arrived was not just victory but a...

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Both sides of the Atlantic sense more hope now: voters are drawn to the ‘politics of love’

Both sides of the Atlantic sense more hope now: voters are drawn to the ‘politics of love’

Hungary, Brazil, Serbia, and now the US. So far this year, when their hand has been held to the stove, voters have chosen what the Texas senator-elect...

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Alexander Hurst

Trump’s billionaire-blue collar coalition has been smashed by class politics

Trump’s billionaire-blue collar coalition has been smashed by class politics

Remember the “vibe shift”? Just last year, columnists and corporate boardrooms alike declared that the second coming of Donald Trump meant the old...

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Martin Rowson on the US midterm election results – cartoon

Martin Rowson on the US midterm election results – cartoon

US midterm elections 2026 Guardian Opinion cartoon

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After Martha Stewart’s Halloween homeless costume disaster, I have to know: celebrities, why do you risk it?

After Martha Stewart’s Halloween homeless costume disaster, I have to know: celebrities, why do you risk it?

It’s not easy being an optimist these days. It requires practice, like exercising a muscle. It’s why I like to think of reading the news as a kind...

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Coco Khan