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• The Trump administration is making viruses great again | Arwa Mahdawi

  Measles cases are at their highest rate in the US in decades. Robert F Kennedy doesn’t seem too botheredDo you enjoy getting sick from preventable d...

  Published on July 19, 2025
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• How can Democrats win back working-class voters? Change their tune | Joan C Williams

  Campaigning on ‘protecting democracy’ isn’t appealing for non-college-educated voters. So why haven’t Democrats changed their message?Doing th...

  Published on July 19, 2025
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• Trump cannot dispel the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein | Sidney Blumenthal

  Trump’s grooming of his followers is impossible to undo. Now he is bedeviled by a conspiracy theory gapSome enchanted evening, Donald Trump saw a st...

  Published on July 19, 2025
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• Trump worked to kill a story about his friendship with Epstein. Now we know why | Margaret Sullivan

  The president is reportedly ‘on a warpath’ over a story in the Wall Street Journal – controlled by Trump’s top media allyFor days before the W...

  Published on July 18, 2025
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• The Guardian view on Maga and Jeffrey Epstein: the truth about Donald Trump and conspiracy theories | Editorial

  The US president is struggling to close down speculation about the case that those close to him have promotedDonald Trump has thrived on conspiracy th...

  Published on July 18, 2025
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• Trump’s endless toying with conspiracy theories has finally come back to bite him | Moira Donegan

  The president has long exploited useful fictions embraced by his supporters. Now he’s trying to change the narrativeDonald Trump’s followers, and ...

  Published on July 18, 2025
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• The end of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show is a concerning nail in the coffin for comedy | Jesse Hassenger

  The long-running US television staple is coming to an end, signalling the slow death of late-night comedy and the worrying cultural power of TrumpThe ...

  Published on July 18, 2025
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• New York’s mayoral race exposes the deep roots of American Islamophobia | Ahmed Moor

  Islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani are a reminder of the difference between individual and structural prejudiceMy only interaction with the FBI ca...

  Published on July 18, 2025
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• Listen up, weaklings: there’s no Epstein client list. Why are you so obsessed? Yours, Donald J Trump | Marina Hyde

  It’s the bonfire of the Maga hats. The real mystery is where their wearers got the idea of a paedophile conspiracy from in the first placeYou have t...

  Published on July 18, 2025
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• France’s eight weeks of summer holidays, or England's six? I’ve done both and know which one I prefer | Gillian Harvey

  With vacations of up to 14 weeks on the continent, education can suffer – although on the plus side childcare and holidays are much more affordableR...

  Published on July 19, 2025
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• Serial dating and push presents: love in the age of the algorithm is complex | Zandile Powell

  Couples and singles let us into their idealised love lives online, but our role as viewers makes it more of a ménage à troisSitting in a hospital be...

  Published on July 19, 2025
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• Britain is great at muddling through. But imagine if its leaders knew where they were heading | Timothy Garton Ash

  Starmer’s successful ‘reset’ with Europe highlights an underlying incoherence. The only rational long-term strategy is to rejoin the EU, but our...

  Published on July 19, 2025
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• Goethe immortalised the shaming of German women 200 years ago – we’re still at it | Fatma Aydemir

  Abortion is criminalised and stigmatised – and now the right has found a new female scapegoat in its US-style war on bodily autonomyEvery nation has...

  Published on July 19, 2025
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• How to reduce your food footprint: if it’s better for you, it’s better for the planet

  Curbing waste, eating a plant-rich diet and limiting ultra-processed food (and sadly, coffee and chocolate) will dramatically reduce your carbon footp...

  Published on July 19, 2025
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• Faced with a choice between saving his own skin and the lives of others, Netanyahu always chooses himself | Jonathan Freedland

  If Israel’s prime minister accepts a ceasefire deal soon, it will only be because the timing suits him. He, like his country, will face a reckoningW...

  Published on July 18, 2025
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• I used to be scared of being a ‘difficult woman’. Now it’s a badge of honour | Jacinta Parsons

  If there’s one thing that I’ve learned by talking to older women, it’s that being a ‘bad girl’ shouldn’t faze you – it should embolden y...

  Published on July 18, 2025
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• The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become | Jason Okundaye

  We should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – wayThe late broad...

  Published on July 18, 2025
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• This fiasco didn’t start when Britain leaked Afghans’ names, but when we invaded their country | Simon Jenkins

  Even after Tony Blair’s bungled war, UK leaders still yearned to dominate the world stage. With the lifting of the superinjunction, we can all see w...

  Published on July 18, 2025
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• The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake | Editorial

  Israel’s military blamed the deaths of six Palestinian children on Sunday on a technical error. But a staggering toll continues to mountOn Sunday, a...

  Published on July 15, 2025
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• The Guardian view on Brics growing up: A new bloc seeks autonomy – and eyes a post-western order | Editorial

  The expanding group of emerging powers is building new rules, new tools and a shared industrial future – with or without Donald TrumpThe Brics summi...

  Published on July 13, 2025
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• The Guardian view on Israel and Gaza: they make a desert and call it peace | Editorial

  The rhetoric of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government tries to blur the slaughter and plans for ethnic cleansing. Words matterVisiting Washington, Benjami...

  Published on July 8, 2025
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• The Guardian view on Trump’s aid cuts and development: the global majority deserve justice, not charity | Editorial

  Funding is plummeting as needs grow, with the closure of USAID, the slashing of UK and European aid budgets, and the obstruction of debt reform and ca...

  Published on July 1, 2025
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