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  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Harrison Butker’s misogynistic graduation speech shows the bigots are winning

    Arwa Mahdawi
    We’re going backwards: a football player can say hateful things from a university podium while students are being arrested
  • man holding child's body covered by shroud

    I’ve never felt more disillusioned as a Palestinian

    Ahmad Ibsais
  • Harrison Butker said women have been told ‘diabolical lies’ about their place in the world

    Don’t tell Harrison Butker working women helped him win three Super Bowls

    Melissa Jacobs
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Robert Reich

    The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot

    Robert Reich
  • man in a suit photographed from behind giving a thumbs up

    We’re in a pivotal moment in American history. We cannot retreat

    Bernie Sanders
  • ‘Israelis, go back to Europe’? Some on the left need to rethink their slogans

    Jo-Ann Mort
  • Are US campus protests antisemitic? Jewish students weigh in

    Theo Goldstine, Benjamin Kersten, Maya Ilany and Matan Berg
  • Beyoncé’s display of the American flag raises questions for Black people

    Derecka Purnell
  • Trump’s hush-money case has proved he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal?

    Margaret Sullivan
  • The abdication of two beauty queens hints at ugly truth about Miss USA

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Will Biden finally stop enabling Netanyahu’s extremist government?

    Mohamad Bazzi
  • Stormy Daniels’s testimony paints a dark picture of Trump’s view of sex and power

    Moira Donegan
  • Drake and Kendrick Lamar don’t get that women’s pain isn’t a punchline

    Tayo Bero
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  • The Olympic and Paralympic mascots, like red Phrygian caps on legs, pose on a quayside, with  yachts in the background.

    You think Parisians grumble a lot? Don’t get them started on the Olympic Games

    Robert McLiam Wilson
  • Rowan Moore

    I’m passionate about the future of Glasgow School of Art’s glorious Mackintosh building, not just its past

    Rowan Moore
  • Simon Tisdall

    Nato’s failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for?

    Simon Tisdall
  • Starmer thought he’d found the nation’s pulse in Essex. Here’s what ‘Essex man’ made of him

    Tim Burrows
  • Rubbish music, chatbots and online queues: welcome to your life lived on hold

    Elle Hunt
  • How can a child in care cost £281,000 a year? Ask the wealth funds that have councils over a barrel

    George Monbiot
  • Political violence could benefit far right parties in the EU elections – if we let it

    Paul Taylor
  • Labor’s budget lays out the battlelines but Dutton pushes hot-button alternatives

    Karen Middleton, Political editor
  • Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint

  • Into Britain’s angry pulpit steps Rev Vennells, who ran the Post Office – to explain why it sent honest people to jail

    Marina Hyde
  • Robert Fico’s allies warn of political war – they will use it to justify the dismantling of our democracy

    Monika Kompaníková
  • A man wearing a baseball cap and a white tabard, with a stethoscope rouund his neck, examines a child as another, slumped against a wall, looks on.

    The Observer view on Sudan’s civil war: a humanitarian disaster we choose to ignore

  • Displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah

    The Guardian view on Israel’s far right: occupation of Palestinian territory feeds its extremism

    • FILE - Streets are flooded after heavy rain in Sao Sebastiao do Cai, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.

      The Guardian view on the climate emergency: we cannot afford to despair

    • Can Dündar

      The Guardian view on transnational repression: dissidents need safety in their new homes

    • Tents at Everest base camp.

      The Observer view on overtourism: sometimes, the planet’s hotspots are best left unvisited

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