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• The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariffs: a spectacle of struggle and control | Editorial

  The US president wields tariffs not as a policy tool but as an instrument of pressure, rewarding loyalty and punishing defiance – even among alliesD...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Trump will not stop until every American relic reflects his imaginary world view | Kellie Carter Jackson

  The US president’s attack on the Smithsonian isn’t about truth. It’s about erasure, and ‘erasure is violence’Last week, Donald Trump issued ...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Trump claimed he was pro-worker. His new order shows how absurd that was | Steven Greenhouse

  Last week, he moved to end collective bargaining rights for 1 million people. And would anyone who cared about workers hire this staff?If any workers ...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Donald Trump is eyeing up a third term – and no one is opposing him | Arwa Mahdawi

  So many people and organisations are capitulating to the US president, from Silicon Valley to the Democrats, legal firms and elite universities. How r...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Democrats still misunderstand working-class voters – to their peril | Dustin Guastella

  Can moderate Democrats, plotting their path back to power, convincingly make a populist pivot?Progressives have plenty of bad ideas that should be axe...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Who actually runs Columbia University? | Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock

  Trustees aren’t academics – and they’re often political wolves in sheep’s clothing. We need reform to save the American university as we know ...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Andrew Tate is back in Romania. How we handle him will reveal what kind of country we really are | Andrei Popoviciu

  We could have a fair, independent process, as justice demands – or buckle under pressure from the US. Frankly, it could go either wayA turquoise Koe...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That’s exactly what Trump wants | Robert Reich

  Attacks on the pillars of civil society are chilling speech. But American democracy was built on criticismI was talking recently to a friend who’s a...

  Published on March 31, 2025
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• As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist | Charlotte Higgins

  The Smithsonian’s museums have been ordered to root out ‘divisive narratives’. It’s part of a pattern: the battle lines are now clearIt has co...

  Published on March 31, 2025
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• Logging is quietly ravaging US forests. Trump is taking an axe to protections

  Unsustainable logging is one of the global north’s best-kept secrets. We’re running out of time to stop itThe world is running out of time to halt...

  Published on March 31, 2025
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• Palestinians must have the final say in Gaza’s reconstruction | Ahmad Ibsais

  Rebuilding is more than reconstruction: it is resistance. It is our refusal to be erased, our determination to remain and exist on our landOn the 17th...

  Published on March 31, 2025
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• Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters | Alexis Anderson-Reed

  The so-called Save Act would strip millions of their access to the vote and make the process harder for everyone elseThe first months of the new Trump...

  Published on March 31, 2025
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• The US government’s round-up of student protesters is genuinely shocking | Jameel Jaffer

  These are the kinds of scenes we expect to see in the world’s most repressive regimes. And they won’t stop at foreign studentsThe defining feature...

  Published on March 31, 2025
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• Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead | Nathalie Tocci

  Whether it is by declaring a trade war or by bullying Greenland, visceral hatred is driving American policyThe “Signalgate” scandal confirmed what...

  Published on March 31, 2025
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• As a child, I was afraid of my friends seeing me pray. Watching Eid live on the BBC was a huge moment | Nadeine Asbali

  British Muslims are too often acceptable only when they bake cakes or win medals. Now the nation has had a true insight into our faithIf anything is g...

  Published on April 2, 2025
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• Keir Starmer won power without a purpose. Now he risks squandering it | Rafael Behr

  Loyalists worry that the PM displays little of the engagement and dynamism required. Five years on, neither they nor voters really know him or his pla...

  Published on April 2, 2025
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• France’s left is celebrating Le Pen’s conviction. But gloating will make it harder to beat the far right | Georgios Samaras

  Beware the backlash strategies used by Trump and Berlusconi. It is vital that the National Rally leader isn’t able to capitalise on this verdictThe ...

  Published on April 2, 2025
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• I loved being a principal, but Australia has grown complacent about the growing violence directed at educators | Andy Mison

  School principals are resilient but, in an alarming number of cases, their job harms them. We would not tolerate these conditions in other workplacesI...

  Published on April 2, 2025
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• NAD boosters: Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber are into them, but do they actually stop ageing? | Antiviral

  Despite social media hype, there is little evidence that the therapies, marketed as pills, shots and IV infusions, have any effects on ageingThe fount...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Labour's populist pantomime over sentencing rules plays into the hands of the right | Janey Starling

  Forcing the abandonment of commonsense, evidence-based guidelines is a new low for a party that once prided itself on justice reformA progressive sent...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Poor Prince Harry: what to do when someone close to you publicly trashes an institution you love? | Marina Hyde

  As claims pile up about the charity he founded, he’s learning that smiling and biting your lip can be quite painful. Hear, hear, as the Windsors mig...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Today Labour brings in higher wages, because we know we must put money back in working people’s pockets | Rachel Reeves

  Our opponents dismiss this move, but we have a core belief: people deserve a decent day’s pay for a decent day’s workA few months ago I visited a ...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• Is my Scottish accent really the problem – or is it just your English ears? | Catriona Stewart

  Football manager Gary Caldwell thinks he sounds too ‘aggressive’. But as a fellow Scot, I know the answer isn’t to ‘Englify’ ourselvesThe wo...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• And the award for zero self-awareness goes to second-home owners raging about higher taxes | Gaby Hinsliff

  Why the anger? Doubling council tax on holiday homes in England is a sensible, revenue-raising policy for communities in serious needShould you have t...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• A lot of mums are angry at Chappell Roan. I just want her to come over and listen to me whinge | Molly Glassey

  Whether you’re a parent or not, you should be able to talk candidly about how tough it is having kidsA few weeks ago I told my friend – a good fri...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• The Guardian view on South Sudan: the world's youngest nation is on the brink of a new conflict | Editorial

  The arrest of vice-president Riek Machar takes the country closer to a second civil warAfter less than a decade and a half in existence, the world’s...

  Published on April 1, 2025
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• The Guardian view on attacks on lawyers: democracies must stand up for justice | Editorial

  From Russia to the US, those who seek to uphold the law are coming under increasing pressureWhat the law says on paper is irrelevant if it cannot be u...

  Published on March 30, 2025
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• The Observer view on JD Vance: spurned in Greenland and humiliated at home, the vice-president should resign

  His foolish foreign trip and the response to the Signal chat leak reflect the irresponsibility of White House teamNot for the first time, JD Vance, Am...

  Published on March 30, 2025
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• The Guardian view on Myanmar’s earthquake: aid must reach beyond the junta

  International donors will need to work with the country’s fragmented local administrations as well as its military rulersRestrictions on the press a...

  Published on March 28, 2025
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• The Guardian view on Trump and reality: from promoting alternative facts to erasing truths | Editorial

  The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of dataWhat d...

  Published on March 27, 2025
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