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Arwa Mahdawi

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Donald Trump is eyeing up a third term – and no one is opposing him

Donald Trump is eyeing up a third term – and no one is opposing him
yesterday 7

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Arwa Mahdawi

Why is The White Lotus generating so much chatter about teeth?

Why is The White Lotus generating so much chatter about teeth?
26.03.2025 30

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Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now

Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now
25.03.2025 9

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Arrested at gunpoint, charged as a felon: a midwife’s lot in anti-abortion Texas

Arrested at gunpoint, charged as a felon: a midwife’s lot in anti-abortion Texas
22.03.2025 40

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I was always terrified of confrontation. Then I hit my 40s

I was always terrified of confrontation. Then I hit my 40s
18.03.2025 20

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The US assault on free speech is not going to end with Mahmoud Khalil

The US assault on free speech is not going to end with Mahmoud Khalil
15.03.2025 9

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The US’s plutocrats and politicians want more, more, more. Matt LeBlanc shows us a better way

The US’s plutocrats and politicians want more, more, more. Matt LeBlanc shows us a better way
12.03.2025 10

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No one’s buying Hunter Biden’s terrible paintings any more? I wonder why

No one’s buying Hunter Biden’s terrible paintings any more? I wonder why
11.03.2025 10

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Wooden spoons are making us sick? I thought that was fish slices

05.03.2025 30

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First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters

04.03.2025 40

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Melania Trump doesn’t want to play the role of first lady – but she doesn’t mind making $28m

26.02.2025 20

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Is a Trump backlash on its way? Well, eggs are as expensive as ever – and you can’t eat the culture wars

25.02.2025 4

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New Zealand’s tourism campaign is not the world’s worst – and I should know

19.02.2025 7

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What is ‘conservative girl’ makeup, and am I accidentally wearing it?

12.02.2025 20

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Did RFK Jr really drink fish medicine? He definitely has weird ideas about ‘making America healthy again’

11.02.2025 10

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Trump’s Gaza remarks are no surprise: ethnic cleansing was always the plan

06.02.2025 5

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I didn’t think Trump’s second act would be that bad. Oh, how wrong I was

05.02.2025 30

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Will Prince Harry be deported from Trump’s America?

04.02.2025 10

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It’s true! American schools do brainwash children. Just not in the way I thought …

29.01.2025 30

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While Musk and Altman wage their silly little feud, China is making all the broligarchs look like chumps

28.01.2025 20

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Give up complaining for 30 days? There’s no way I can conquer this January challenge

22.01.2025 7

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From TikTok to TrumpTok? The app’s banning and unbanning encapsulates everything wrong with US politics

21.01.2025 6

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The Guardian view on incapacity benefit: the Treasury should not be calling the shots

21.01.2025 6

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The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s inauguration: fear, division and the facade of national populism

21.01.2025 70

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A rebrand, not a revolution: our panel reacts to Trump’s inauguration speech

21.01.2025 60

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Trump’s official portrait claims to ‘go hard’. Vance just looks stunned he pulled this off

17.01.2025 50

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Why is it so unsettling to watch an adult drink cold cow’s milk?

15.01.2025 9

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Is Andrew Tate going to reinvent himself as a politician and ‘save Britan [sic]’?

14.01.2025 20

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Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn’t get more awful? They’ve gone villain mode

14.01.2025 40

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AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?

09.01.2025 60

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Will flattery get you everywhere with Donald Trump? Billionaires are determined to find out

Reader, I was wrong. So terribly wrong. It pains me to admit this but, back in the distant past (last year), I wrote some very nasty things about...

07.01.2025 3

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I tried ‘intermittent sobriety’. Here’s what I learned jumping on and off the wagon

’Tis the season to drink far too much and then vow that, next year, you’ll never drink again. Or at least, it used to be that season. These days,...

06.01.2025 9

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The Baldoni-Lively legal battle has depressing echoes of Depp v Heard

First, a mea culpa. Last year I wrote a critical piece about the promotional campaign for the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s controversial novel It...

04.01.2025 6

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January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise

The sun shone brightly on 6 January 2021. The birds chirped, children frolicked and thousands of unarmed patriots gathered peacefully in Washington...

03.01.2025 100

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Is it true that up to half of people have no inner monologue? I investigated

Sometimes I like to start a column by asking myself: should this really be a column that will live on the internet forever, for all and sundry to...

30.12.2024 50

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Hail the broligarchy: why 2024 was the year of the bro

A creature of various talents, and the owner of at least three types of shirt, the Great American Bro can take different forms. The finance bro,...

27.12.2024 10

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My daughter will be an only child – and I’m not going to feel guilty about it

For a few years now, I’ve kept a few vials of a stranger’s sperm on ice. Not just hanging out in my freezer next to the frozen peas, to be clear....

27.12.2024 5

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Is your air fryer spying on you? It’s time to stop buying unnecessary ‘smart’ devices

Air fryers make delicious roast potatoes and, it turns out, pretty decent snooping devices. Last month, the consumer group Which? issued a warning...

18.12.2024 60

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Elon Musk is on track to be a trillionaire – if America doesn’t turn against him first

Congratulations to Elon Musk, a genius of truly galactic proportions, who recently made what might have been the world’s savviest investment. The...

17.12.2024 6

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Londoners are ‘cold’ and ‘mean’, according to one US family. But for real rudeness, go to Philadelphia

If you are an American hoping to ingratiate yourself with the local people while on a trip to London, I have some tips. First: smile at strangers...

11.12.2024 6

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Who’s the most basic person on the internet? A court will have to decide between these two beige influencers

Sydney Nicole Gifford, a 24-year-old lifestyle influencer, was busy being her most authentic self when her carefully curated world suddenly...

10.12.2024 4

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You can judge someone by their enemies. I write for the Guardian because it has all the right ones

The year is 2050. The US government is run by President Elon Musk and his 690 children. Donald Trump, immortalized as an AI hologram, continues to...

10.12.2024 20

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Are chicken sandwiches a) a tasty lunch? Or b) the ultimate symbol of gen Z wokeness?

You are what you eat. And if you eat sandwiches? Then you’re probably woke, I’m afraid. While the convenience food may have been invented by a...

04.12.2024 30

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Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s refusal to choose between the US and the EU – cartoon

03.12.2024 9

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I understand why Joe Biden wants to protect his son Hunter. But it doesn’t make it right

‘No one is above the law,” Joe Biden tweeted in May. He probably should have added a caveat to that because his own son appears to be floating far...

03.12.2024 4

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Can Gwyneth Paltrow save Goop with a bold new vaginal product?

“VAGINA! VAGINA! VAGINA!” That, in a nutshell (possibly the wrong metaphor), was the key to success for Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand, Goop,...

27.11.2024 50

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I moved to another city – and found an unexpected way to make new friends

It started in my mid-30s: The Great Slipping Away. Gradually, and then suddenly, the friends I had in New York started to disappear. Some moved out...

26.11.2024 5

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Kim Kardashian cozying up to a robot is another example of AI entering our lives

On a scale of one to 10, just how desperate do you think Kim Kardashian is for attention? Judging by the billionaire’s weirdly sexual photoshoot...

23.11.2024 20

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Mark Zuckerberg loves his wife? That’s nice – but let’s stop fawning over a guy who fawns over Trump

Do they hand out Nobel prizes for PR? Because the team behind Mark Zuckerberg’s recent metamorphosis deserves one immediately. Not so long ago,...

20.11.2024 10

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He has already fathered many children. Now Musk wants all of the US to embrace extreme breeding

Is Elon Musk the dinner party guest from hell? It sure seems that way. Not only is the man desperate for people to laugh at his crass jokes, he...

19.11.2024 5

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