Opinion
Deborah Frances-White: It’s not just Cornell: rape culture spreads from frat houses to business, politics and even boys’ phones
College fraternities are notoriously unsafe places for women. But it’s worse than that: they are also where the most powerful men in the world learn to be misogynistic, writes the Guilty Feminist
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‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm
Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats
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Deborah Frances-White: The real shock in the Lindsay Clancy case is that the child-killer isn’t a man
‘Family annihilation’, where a spouse kills their partner and offspring – and often themselves – is an overwhelmingly male phenomenon. But masculine violence is too common to be big news, writes the Guilty Feminist
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Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition
The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist
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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psychologist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffernan
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Natasha Walter: The end-times oligarchs are weary of Earth. But we should stand and fight for our home
In answer to the question ‘what can I do?’ in the face of Trump, the tech bros and their apocalyptic visions – we can come together in the love and support of our communities
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I was there for the Daphne Caruana Galizia verdict. It was like hearing a court rule the Earth is flat
Stephen Grey, who spent years investigating the tycoon accused of masterminding the journalist’s murder, says his outrageous acquittal has left a grieving family without justice – and yet still not without hope
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We need to talk about the Bayeux Tapestry show and its billionaire sponsor
Igor Tulchinsky, whose name and portrait are front and centre of the British Museum’s blockbuster show, has funded the IDF and donated to Trump even as the president undermines cultural institutions, writes Nerve art critic Ben Luke
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Meta helped destroy my generation’s sense of self. An $18bn settlement is not punishment enough
For those, like me, who have lost loved ones to online harms, the spectacle of a historic lawsuit against a social media company has been bittersweet, writes Adele Walton
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From ‘human printer’ to headline-maker: meet Trump’s devoted aide Natalie Harp
The 35-year-old runs behind the president’s golf cart in case he needs hard copies of things to read, and credits him with curing her cancer. Now that’s what you call an assistant, writes Hannah Jane Parkinson
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Sangita Myska: Is Jason Arday a fantasist or a victim of racism? Actually, he’s both
The former professor’s claims about his extraordinary life do not bear scrutiny. But the frenzied and vicious reporting about him is impugning the good name of every black academic
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
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Caroline Lucas: The shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see
The intelligence services now believe nature collapse is a security threat. For a cabinet determined to sacrifice the environment for growth, was that too uncomfortable a truth, asks the former Green party leader
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Adele Walton: The Online Safety Act is supposed to make Britain’s internet a safe space – yet it can’t touch the site linked to my sister’s death
Ofcom says it has used all its powers and can do no more against a pro-suicide forum. For bereaved families like mine, only a public inquiry can explain why
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