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  • ‘After pro-Israel groups mischaracterized Tabassum’s pro-Palestinian views as “antisemitic”, USC claimed that security concerns made her speech untenable.’

    USC vetoed a Muslim student’s graduation speech for her pro-Palestinian views. Why?

    Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan
    The California university cancelled Asna Tabassum’s speech because of ‘security concerns’. The real reason is cowardice
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Is Connor Hubbard the most boring man on the internet?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • On a lawn surrounded on three sides by buildings, dozens of tents with handmade protest signs in red and green.

    Why we need to stop using ‘pro-Palestine’ and ‘pro-Israel’

    Judith Levine
  • Moira Donegan

    The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet

    Moira Donegan
  • Naomi Klein

    We need an exodus from Zionism

    Naomi Klein
  • Margaret Sullivan

    Trump’s hush-money case might finally show him what accountability feels like

    Margaret Sullivan
  • Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism

    Robert Reich
  • Trump has dodged financial calamity – for the time being

    Lloyd Green
  • On trial, Trump is a shadow of the superhero his supporters crave

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • ‘Miss AI’ is billed as a leap forward – but feels like a monumental step backwards

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • The Guardian view on arming Ukraine: US Congress votes against appeasement

  • The legalization of sports gambling in the US was a mistake

    Bhaskar Sunkara
  • What I would have told Congress if I were in Columbia president Shafik’s shoes

    Francine Prose
  • The death of the Republican party is not a tragedy to be celebrated

    Robert Reich
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    Different perspectives on protest and Palestine

  • Karen Middleton

    Indigenous youth suicide is an appalling blot on Australia’s conscience

    Karen Middleton
  • Scotland's first minister Humza Yousaf in the lobby of the Scottish parliament on 29 February 2024.

    The SNP ditching its Green allies has backfired on Humza Yousaf – and set back the cause of independence

    Dani Garavelli
    The first minister’s latest misstep will worsen his party’s split along culture war lines, says Dani Garavelli, a freelance journalist and Herald columnist
  • Like Germany’s president, I love a good kebab. Cosying up to autocrats like Erdoğan, less so

    Fatma Aydemir
  • Starmer’s rail plans must only be the start. It’s full renationalisation that Britain needs

    Tom Haines-Doran
  • The Tories’ poisonous anti-culture politics has crushed the arts. Bring on election night

    Polly Toynbee
  • The Cass review of gender identity services marks a return to reason and evidence – it must be defended

    David Bell
  • How the overseas owners of the UK’s water companies clean up by polluting our rivers

    George Monbiot
  • We won’t stop violence against women with ‘conversations about respect’. This is not working. We need to get real

    Jess Hill
  • The cost of living crisis has made the UK a poorer, more anxious nation – and worse is yet to come

    Andy Beckett
  • We must target the root cause of misinformation. We cannot fact check our way out of this

    Samantha Floreani and Lizzie O'Shea
  • The Brics summit in Johannesburg on 23 August 2023, L to R: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s president Xi Jinping, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

    The Guardian view on globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich

  • Donald Trump in court on 22 April 2024

    The Guardian view on arming Ukraine: US Congress votes against appeasement

    • People inspect the wreckage of a partially collapsed building due to Israeli bombardment in Gaza on 18 April 2024

      The Guardian view on the catastrophe in Gaza: it must not be overshadowed by the Iran crisis

    • Narendra Modi holds up a mace during an election campaign rally in Agartala, India

      The Guardian view on India’s election: fixing a win by outlawing dissent damages democracy

    • Ajay Banga

      The Guardian view on debt and developing countries: time to offer some relief

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