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Opinion

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a cat with a blue collar leaning to the left and a dog with a red collar leaning to the right.

    Republicans beware: weaponising pets is a political minefield

    Stewart Lee
    Before attacking ‘childless cat ladies’, senator JD Vance would have done well to remember the old showbiz adage…
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    This one weird trick might win Democrats the election

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    When will Israel free the Palestinians it is holding hostage?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • A Guantanamo detainee's feet are shackled to the floor as he attends a "Life Skills" class at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.

    The Guardian view on Guantánamo Bay: betraying the victims of terrorism too

  • Margaret Sullivan

    I feel joy at my friend Evan Gershkovich’s release. But the anger lingers

    Margaret Sullivan
  • A woman wearing a black blazer speaks at a podium at an airport

    How Kamala Harris can lose the cop’s badge and still look tough

    Judith Levine

  • Kamala Harris needs to mobilise voters around class – not race

    Dustin Guastella and Bhaskar Sunkara

  • JD Vance is the baby of big tech and big oil. He’s no ‘working-class populist’

    Jan-Werner Müller

  • Phone calls from prison are finally being capped at 6 cents a minute. But there’s more to do

    Katrina vanden Heuvel

  • The US supreme court is an electoral issue. Democrats can win on it

    Moira Donegan

  • Donald Trump sure makes a lot of ‘jokes’ about ruling as a dictator, doesn’t he?

    Moustafa Bayoumi

  • Joe Biden is politicizing US supreme court reform – and that’s a good thing

    Austin Sarat

  • US supreme court reform is now on the table. The election stakes just got higher

    Laurence H Tribe and Dennis Aftergut

  • ‘Like a diary – only far more masculine’: what JD Vance’s blogs reveal about him

    Arwa Mahdawi
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World view

  • Jane Martinson

    A powerful man given free rein and indulged, Huw Edwards is proof the BBC hasn’t changed

    Jane Martinson
  • Rowan Moore

    Ignore the Livids of Tunbridge Wells and build homes, but build them well

    Rowan Moore
  • Torsten Bell

    Housebuilding is a route to bigger, better homes for all, not just the rich

    Torsten Bell

  • The BMA’s stance on puberty blockers defies the key principle of medicine: first, do no harm

    Sonia Sodha

  • For the record

  • I went to Paris to look for the super fans. What I found was a beautiful state of love for the world around us

    Jacinta Parsons

  • Britain has shifted away from prejudice, but are we facing a dangerous new time?

    Sunder Katwala

  • Putting a stop to far-right violence is an early, defining test of Keir Starmer’s mettle

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • The way, the truth and the Olympic record: how God struck gold in Paris

    Emma John

  • I swear by almighty river: an ancient practice is making a comeback in Britain’s courts

    Tim Adams

  • Women are being spat on outside my abortion clinic. Where is the safe zone we’re legally entitled to?

    Michaela McDaid

Editorials

  • President Joe Biden looks on as Evan Gershkovich, released from detention in Russia, is greeted by his mother Ella Milman.

    The Observer view on the US-Russia prisoner swap: release brought joy but there is a downside too

  • Anti-Israel demonstrators in Tehran hold portraits of the assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on 31 July 2024.

    The Guardian view on the killing of a Hamas leader: the Middle East circles the abyss

    • Palestinian supporters gather outside of the US Capitol to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress in Washington DC.

      The Guardian view on Israel and the world: Benjamin Netanyahu’s US trip won’t help

    • Kamala Harris

      The Guardian view on Joe Biden quitting the race: a fresh start for Democrats

    • Joe Biden waves as he turns away from a podium with US flags in the background.

      The Observer view on Joe Biden: he must step aside to stop Donald Trump

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