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  • A man who is Donald Trump looks stern while speaking on stage

    Here is what will happen on day one of Trump’s presidency, according to Project 2025

    Daniel Martinez HoSang
    As Trump utters the last phrase of the oath of office – ‘so help me God’ – the first phase of what Project 2025’s authors call ‘the playbook’ begins
  • People hold up signs with messages like 'Keep abortion legal' and 'Stop abortion extremism' at a protest in front of US supreme court

    Republicans want to steal reproductive freedom. Black women will suffer most

    Monica Raye Simpson
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Elon Musk is intrigued by the idea women can’t think freely because of ‘low T’

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • five people sit at a desk beneath a big screen with the words 'the big lie'

    American democracy is in peril. And racism will be the sledgehammer that destroys it

    Kimberlé W Crenshaw
  • Margaret Sullivan

    The Kamala Harris campaign has Fox News grasping at straws – literally

    Margaret Sullivan
  • Rebecca Solnit

    The mainstream press is failing America – and people are understandably upset

    Rebecca Solnit

  • Kamala Harris should do what Joe Biden won’t: commit to actually reining in Israel

    Mohamad Bazzi

  • We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism

    Gabor Maté

  • Why fascists hate universities

    Jason Stanley

  • The US right keeps accusing Democrats of ‘communism’. What does that even mean?

    Jan-Werner Müller

  • The forces of loneliness can cause political instability. And threaten democracy

    V (formerly Eve Ensler)

  • Donald Trump is deeply threatened by Kamala Harris – and desperately flailing

    Sidney Blumenthal

  • Donald Trump is backing free IVF? You can practically smell the desperation

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • Young male voters are flocking to Trump – but he doesn’t have their interests at heart

    Steven Greenhouse
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World view

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    The truth about school choice in Australia? It’s a two-class system

  • Peter Lewis

    Australia could be a smart nation that values education – instead it is riding the latest wave of dumb luck

    Peter Lewis
  • Simon Jenkins

    This winter fuel fiasco will save Labour £1.3bn this year. But it will cost Starmer more

    Simon Jenkins

  • As our friends with kids become grandparents, it reignites the sadness of being childless not by choice

    Tess Pryor

  • Starmer’s warmth is welcome – but Ireland’s appetite for shifting to British whims has waned

    Diarmaid Ferriter

  • Labour is cracking down on truants, but as a mother and ex-teacher, I know tough love goes only so far

    Gillian Harvey

  • Welcome aboard: I’m Rich. Easyjet is seeking older cabin crew, but would you want to fly with me?

    Rich Pelley

  • The Tory leadership race says it all about the trouble they are in. Jenrick, Badenoch, Stride: what a crew!

    Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  • A Britain proud of its present and realistic about its past is taking shape: with the angry right trailing behind

    Nesrine Malik

  • My family and I are homeless in Australia, trapped in a vicious cycle of seeking help where none is available

    Stephanie Valla

  • We the survivors and bereaved of Grenfell cannot sleep easy even now. Too many others are still at risk

    Natasha Elcock

Editorials

  • ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT-HOSTAGES<br>A demonstrator holds a sign depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shredding apart Israel's 1948 Declaration of Independence during a demonstration demanding action to free the Israeli hostages captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attacks outside the Israeli Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Guardian view on Israel’s West Bank seizure: causing harm to itself and others

  • the risk of miscalculation and unintended consequences

    The Guardian view on Israel and Hezbollah: another ominous threshold crossed

    • Archaelogical site of Gobekli Tepe, the oldest known human-made religious structure, in south-east Turkey.

      The Guardian view on the invention of prehistory: telling the story before records began

    • Kamala Harris on a billboard in Hollywood

      The Observer view on US presidential election: Kamala Harris has set out her global vision. But can it work?

    • Kamala Harris speaks to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

      The Guardian view on Kamala Harris’s speech: the Democrats have liftoff

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