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• The Guardian view on US-Russian talks: Trump wants a deal, whatever it means for Ukraine | Editorial

  Washington, like Moscow, prefers bilateral talks to a wider diplomatic process. Kyiv and other European governments are rightly alarmedThere could har...

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• Trump’s an unstable bully – but it’s hard to defend the economic orthodoxies he is attacking | Larry Elliott

  With Rachel Reeves in the US, some clarity is needed: the global economy has been mismanaged and the Federal Reserve does deserve criticism

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• What is America’s pro-natalism movement really about? | Moira Donegan

  Pro-natalists aren’t actually interested in making motherhood easier by offering things like affordable childcare. So what is their aim?Malcolm and ...

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• What did Pope Francis think of JD Vance? His view was more than clear | Jan-Werner Mueller

  Francis was as outspoken as could be without naming names, when he criticized Vance in his February letter to US bishopsWe might never quite know what...

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• The Guardian view on the IMF’s warning: Donald Trump could cost the world a trillion dollars | Editorial

  The US president’s economic agenda collides with fragile financial systems, triggering market fears, investor flight and developing nation chaosWake...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• Even Trump must know that firing the chair of the Fed would be self-defeating | Nils Pratley

  Jerome Powell is a soft target for the president amid economic instability. But getting rid of him would only invite more chaosUS stock markets, Treas...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• Yes, I’m a half-Palestinian lesbian, but I dream of being a Republican congresswoman. Here’s my six-point plan | Arwa Mahdawi

  Anything is possible with Trump ripping up all the rules – and I’m going to take full advantageMy haters are going to rejoice when I say this, but...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• For Trump, the message is all. No surprise he’s targeting NPR and PBS | Margaret Sullivan

  Trump’s anti-media diatribes are part of the authoritarian playbook. Congress must reject his planned cutsIt was entirely predictable that Donald Tr...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• Tariffs will raise prices. But the climate crisis is the real inflation risk | Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli

  As temperatures rise and countries back off their decarbonization efforts, we must confront a reality central banks can’t correctInflation is, at ba...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• Don’t believe the doubters: protest still has power | Jan-Werner Müller

  Demonstrations rarely lead to immediate policy change. But they are essential to building community and long-term resistanceOpinions about the protest...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• Why a holiday in the US is out of the question | Zoe Williams

  The US administration’s ‘reassuring’ words, after deporting two German teens, have made it plain that the border authorities will have a problem...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour

  Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools that help us understand...

  Published on April 21, 2025
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• Fox’s new game show makes people guess what Trump’s been up to. Somehow I can’t see the joy in that | Dave Schilling

  What Did I Miss? features a smarmy host quizzing sequestered contestants on the headlines. But politics is not funny any moreThe classic television ga...

  Published on April 21, 2025
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• Emboldened by Trump, the ‘liberal’ UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses | Kenneth Mohammed

  Faced with fading empires’ petulance, the global south must draw a red line under its relationship with them and forge new ties based on mutual resp...

  Published on April 21, 2025
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• Australia needs more than hollow words about a fair go – we need brave policy-makers | Greg Jericho

  It is not only conservatives who love our country and believe it worthy of defendingPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywh...

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• The global south has lost its pope. The world has lost its conscience | Nathalie Tocci

  He was no liberal, but Francis embodied a spirit of international solidarity that is in alarmingly short supplyPope Francis died hours after meeting t...

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• The Coalition’s defence plans are a kneejerk, impossible dream when what we need is achievable policy | Allan Behm

  Increased spending is just another way of throwing up our hands, refusing to deal with the present and showing our inability to deal with the futurePo...

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• The most gripping thing I’m watching on my phone? Swedish moose migrating in real time | Claire Cohen

  No music, no script, no narration, no editing – slow TV like this is exactly the balm we need these daysDo you reach for your phone first thing in t...

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong | Rafael Behr

  Labour must deliver the green transition voters want, leaving Reform and the Tories on the side of economic decline and dictatorsWhich former British ...

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• The left is rising, and the far right is reeling. Will I finally see the Finland I dreamed of? | Mike Watson

  My adopted home has been a dark place of late. But in last week’s local elections, voters turned against cruel politics – and raised hopes of a mo...

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• Albanese’s brand of cultural Catholicism harks back to an earlier Australia – but it’s also thoroughly modern | Frank Bongiorno

  We don’t know if the prime minister marks the Catholic box on his census form. We do know that his heritage is meaningful to himSome observers were ...

  Published on April 23, 2025
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• Look to his stand on Gaza: Pope Francis gave us moral leadership in amoral times | Owen Jones

  With his outspokenness about Israel’s outrages, the late pope showed up the hypocrisy of the media and politiciansThe deaths of major public figures...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• The unwritten code of healthcare is that doctors don’t strike. Until now | Ranjana Srivastava

  Would you want to be treated by a hungry, distressed, sleep-deprived doctor? They need to be looked after – for their sake and oursThe night before ...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• I hate the idea of British prison officers carrying stun guns – but it may be our only option | Alex South

  There’s little chance of rehabilitation in the UK’s dangerously depleted prison system. These weapons might at least keep staff and inmates safeAl...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• Is there really life on planet K2-18b? We can’t rule it out, but some key questions must be answered | Nathalie Cabrol

  A new study of a sphere orbiting a red dwarf star 124 light years from Earth is raising hopes. Here’s why the evidence is inconclusiveNathalie Cabro...

  Published on April 22, 2025
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• The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s industrial policy: inward turn by ultimatum | Editorial

  The US is retreating behind chokepoints and tariffs. It remains determined to invent the future but is struggling to ensure its control Globalisation...

  Published on April 15, 2025
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• The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s Congo deal: mineral riches for protection | Editorial

  Faced with regional chaos and shrinking options, Kinshasa seeks terms of trade that echo the old extractive order in modern disguise“The vilest scra...

  Published on April 13, 2025
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• The Guardian view on the tariff war pause: the Trump trade shambles is not over | Editorial

  The US president blinked first, but this is just a time-out. The threat to the global economy remains real.It was Donald Trump who blinked first. Neve...

  Published on April 10, 2025
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• The Guardian view on Trump’s trade war: no one will win, but China is taking the long view | Editorial

  Beijing is braced for turbulence due to swingeing tariffs. But it sees a bigger, more promising story of US hegemonic declineNo one, least of all cons...

  Published on April 9, 2025
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• The Guardian view on Trump’s tariffs: a monstrous and momentous act of folly | Editorial

  The US president has expelled his own country from the rules-based global trade system that America itself createdFor the world’s already embattled ...

  Published on April 3, 2025
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