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    ‘I’m feeling paralysed’: they arrested my friends for protesting on campus

    Grey Battle
    We chose Yale and it chose us, but one party was betrayed
  • woman in a red baseball cap outside

    Kristi Noem’s dog-killing embodies the cruel phoneyness of today’s Republicans

    Ryan Busse
  • Cas Mudde

    Why are US campuses facing an orgy of state repression in the ‘land of the free’?

    Cas Mudde
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Why hasn’t the US called for an investigation into mass graves in Gaza?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Close-up of man wearing suit

    What will happen if the ICC charges Netanyahu with war crimes?

    Kenneth Roth
  • two police officers arresting a young woman

    Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America

    Joan Donovan
  • Civil War is a terrifying film, but Trump: The Sequel will be a real-life horror show

    Simon Tisdall
  • Discussing Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is not sexist – it’s strategic

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is an affront to women

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

    Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan
  • Is Connor Hubbard the most boring man on the internet?

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

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

    Moira Donegan
  • We need an exodus from Zionism

    Naomi Klein
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  • Joyce Yang

    My friends are passionate about politics – but they don’t vote. There’s no sense in that

    Joyce Yang
  • Afghan journalists at a Taliban press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, 24 May 2022

    The Taliban targeted us, beat us and chased us out. This is how we run our Afghan newspaper from exile

    Sakhidad Hatif
    We shed light on the Taliban’s crimes from the US, thanks to the extreme bravery of reporters on the ground, says Afghan journalist Sakhidad Hatif
  • Keir Starmer

    Vote for my friend Sadiq Khan. Don’t let toxic, incompetent Tory rule ruin our capital

    Keir Starmer
  • All we wanted was to protect the River Wye from pollution. Now we’re stuck in a catch-22

    Oliver Bullough
  • I can truly see the case for assisted dying. But the horrific state of the NHS makes me question if it is the best idea

    Rachel Clarke
  • All the extinct kangaroo boffins are losing their minds at the latest kangaroo news!

  • France has turned against Macron. Will Europe set the stage for President Le Pen?

    Paul Taylor
  • On challenges big and small, our leaders haven’t learned that nationalism is not the answer

    Rafael Behr
  • Bonza is the latest victim of Australian neoliberalism. It’s hard to see a new airline arriving any time soon

    John Quiggin
  • Lyndall Ryan’s impact on Australian history research will be felt for many years to come

    Ann Curthoys
  • Aboriginal women continue to be subject to horrific violence – we cannot leave them out of the conversation

    Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts
  • Tents at Everest base camp.

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

  • 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

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