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  • Cas Mudde

    Why are US campuses facing an orgy of state repression in the ‘land of the free’?

    Cas Mudde
    The right has painted nonviolent protests against the war on Gaza as hotbeds of ‘woke’ terrorism. It’s a pretext for repression
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Why hasn’t the US called for an investigation into mass graves in Gaza?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Close-up of man wearing suit

    What will happen if the ICC charges Netanyahu with war crimes?

    Kenneth Roth
  • two police officers arresting a young woman

    Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America

    Joan Donovan
  • Simon Tisdall

    Civil War is a terrifying film, but Trump: The Sequel will be a real-life horror show

    Simon Tisdall
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Discussing Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is not sexist – it’s strategic

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is an affront to women

    Moira Donegan
  • USC vetoed a Muslim student’s graduation speech for her pro-Palestinian views. Why?

    Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan
  • Is Connor Hubbard the most boring man on the internet?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Why we need to stop using ‘pro-Palestine’ and ‘pro-Israel’

    Judith Levine
  • The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet

    Moira Donegan
  • We need an exodus from Zionism

    Naomi Klein
  • Trump’s hush-money case might finally show him what accountability feels like

    Margaret Sullivan
  • Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism

    Robert Reich
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  • John Quiggin

    Bonza is the latest victim of Australian neoliberalism. It’s hard to see a new airline arriving any time soon

    John Quiggin
  • Professor Lyndall Ryan, Australian academic and historian photographed in her home in Newcastle in 2022

    Lyndall Ryan’s impact on Australian history research will be felt for many years to come

    Ann Curthoys
    Ryan’s rigorous, public-facing study of frontier violence and massacres led to the massacre map, which continues to attract international attention. She was also a cherished friend
  • Women with fists in air or holding signs

    Aboriginal women continue to be subject to horrific violence – we cannot leave them out of the conversation

    Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts
    As a survivor of forcible removal, the disproportionate rate of violence against First Nations women shatters my whole being
  • Never mind stop the boats: Sunak is using fear to build a life raft for himself. But the people will stop him

    Owen Jones
  • It seems certain Sunak will lead the Tories into the local elections. After that, regicide as usual

    Marina Hyde
  • So UK ministers want to fob off disabled people with vouchers? It’s like government by Groupon

    Frances Ryan
  • The Pedro Sánchez crisis makes it clear: Spain’s politicians are playing with fire

    María Ramírez
  • I came to Britain from India, fulfilled a dream, and I say this: we’re a great country, but a work in progress

    Mihir Bose
  • It’s Sunak’s doom loop: the more desperate and cruel the Tories become, the more voters reject them

    Polly Toynbee
  • For children to be safe online, it’s not they who need to change – it’s the tech companies

    Ian Russell
  • Patients maimed by infected blood, innocents jailed, lives ruined. We want real justice – not inquiries

    Simon Jenkins
  • Tents at Everest base camp.

    The Observer view on overtourism: sometimes, the planet’s hotspots are best left unvisited

  • The Brics summit in Johannesburg on 23 August 2023, L to R: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s president Xi Jinping, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

    The Guardian view on globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich

    • Donald Trump in court on 22 April 2024

      The Guardian view on arming Ukraine: US Congress votes against appeasement

    • People inspect the wreckage of a partially collapsed building due to Israeli bombardment in Gaza on 18 April 2024

      The Guardian view on the catastrophe in Gaza: it must not be overshadowed by the Iran crisis

    • Narendra Modi holds up a mace during an election campaign rally in Agartala, India

      The Guardian view on India’s election: fixing a win by outlawing dissent damages democracy

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