What To Think
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Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached rhetoric and bloody realit...
Published on June 23, 2025
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Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie | Mohamad Bazzi
The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itselfIn May 2003, George W Bush landed on the deck of a US aircraft carrier to deliver a tr...
Published on June 22, 2025
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The Guardian view on Trump bombing Iran: an illegal and reckless act | Editorial
The US president has chosen war at Israel’s behest. He may imagine he has scored an easy win, but the world is likely to pay a steep priceDonald Tru...
Published on June 22, 2025
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Small business owners aren’t jumping for joy about the US economy – but they still aren’t jumping ship
Small businesses are doing OK right now, even if there is a bit of concern about tariffs, inflation, labor shortages and higher costsSmall businesses ...
Published on June 22, 2025
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Los Angeles is not a hellscape – no matter how much Trump wishes for it | Dave Schilling
The administration is portraying the city as RoboCop-style anarchy. But the only people facing a war zone here are immigrantsThe Los Angeles Dodgers l...
Published on June 22, 2025
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No matter what Trump says, the US has gone to war – and there will be profound and lasting consequences | Simon Tisdall
Trump has fallen slap bang into the trap laid for him by Netanyahu. His reckless gamble makes a nuclear weapon for Iran more, not less, likelyBombing ...
Published on June 22, 2025
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I study the history of Nazi resistance. Here’s what the US left can learn from it | Luke Berryman
Effective opposition calls for a laser focus on change, no matter how small. We should consider these activists’ examplesAround the end of 2022, I h...
Published on June 22, 2025
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The line between entertainment and reality is getting fuzzier. But making the distinction is more important than ever | Julianne Schultz
As online media rewards emotion over substance, we must separate the real from the make-believeGina Chick, David Genat, Guy Sebastian, Poh Ling Yeow, ...
Published on June 21, 2025
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Why does this billionaire have 100 kids in 12 countries? | Arwa Mahdawi
Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, plans to leave his money to all his offspring – conceived out of ‘civic duty’Pavel Durov is a Russian-born bil...
Published on June 21, 2025
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As the US chooses destruction over diplomacy in Iran, Australia has to decide between principle and prostration | Allan Behm
Australia, like Little Sir Echo, whimpers after the world’s premier bully bombs the ‘bully of the Middle East’Get our breaking news email, free ...
Published on June 23, 2025
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In London and Paris, we’ve experienced vicious backlash to climate action. But we’re not backing down | Sadiq Khan and Anne Hidalgo
Around the world, well-funded, organised climate deniers are spreading lies about the crisis. We call on governments and tech companies to step upSadi...
Published on June 23, 2025
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Australia must stand firm in its support for a rules-based order and reject any US requests for military aid | Donald Rothwell
Labor governments have a proud history of supporting the UN charter. The Albanese government must continue itAmerica’s bombing of Iranian nuclear fa...
Published on June 22, 2025
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From a punishing void to a chance to observe: how we can learn to wait in life | Gill Straker and Jacqui Winship
In a world of impatience, to live slowly is an act of quiet rebellion – a refusal to see time as a thiefThe modern mind is a column where experts di...
Published on June 22, 2025
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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming att...
Published on June 22, 2025
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Look at Labour’s cruel attitude towards disability benefits, then tell me Keir Starmer cares about 'human dignity' | John Harris
These proposed cuts will turn people’s lives into a nightmare. No wonder they are scared about where this all might leadEarlier this month, the New ...
Published on June 22, 2025
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The Windrush generations were proudly British. Yet immigrants are still fighting to be seen that way | Diane Abbott
This week’s Windrush Day reception at No 10 was joyous – but also a reminder of the ugliness behind the ‘island of strangers’ rhetoricThis wee...
Published on June 22, 2025
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Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince
The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public fundingHow green is this? We pay billi...
Published on June 21, 2025
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When did ‘feminist critique’ of celebrities become nothing more than a snide telling-off? | Jennifer Jasmine White
Those delivering paternalistic lectures to Sabrina Carpenter, Addison Rae and Sydney Sweeney would do well to revisit recent historySabrina Carpenter ...
Published on June 21, 2025
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The Guardian view on Trump and Iran: Netanyahu’s war has no visible exit | Editorial
The US president promised to keep his country out of conflicts. The Israeli prime minister has other ideasThe maxim that wars are easy to start and ha...
Published on June 19, 2025
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The Guardian view on Israel, the US and Iran: you can’t bomb your way out of nuclear proliferation | Editorial
The age of disarmament is over. But military action only increases the dangers instead of ending the threatEighty years after the US dropped atomic bo...
Published on June 18, 2025
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The Guardian view on Israel’s shock attack on Iran: confusing US signals add to the peril | Editorial
The recklessness of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and the incoherence of Donald Trump’s deepen the crisis in the Middle EastUS presidents who th...
Published on June 13, 2025
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The Guardian view on Trump and deportation protests: the king of confected emergencies | Editorial
Strongmen love inventing or exploiting crises to justify extreme measures and extended power. The US is taking another step towards authoritarianismDo...
Published on June 11, 2025
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