Opinion
Timothy Snyder: We are watching the US attempt a superpower suicide
From the abandonment of its alliances to the dismantling of its education system, Trump’s administration is tearing down the institutions that really made America great, writes the historian
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Richard Dawkins’s chatbot isn’t conscious: it’s just all talk
The acclaimed scientist spent time with Anthropic’s ‘Claudia’ and couldn’t believe she wasn’t sentient. But Dawkins' own work has taught us that complexity can exist without a divine spark, writes neuroscientist Anil Seth
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Cory Doctorow: Comrade Trump is the unwitting hero of a green revolution
In the first of a new monthly column for the Nerve, the author and cyber-activist argues that by dumping cheap solar panels on Asia and starting a catastrophic war in the Gulf, the president has started a headlong rush for cleantech that no eco-activism could match
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Nudification, 'synthetic' rape... online violence against female journalists is an escalating crisis
Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Sunday, the authors of a groundbreaking new study reveal how much abuse women in public life are exposed to in the age of the broligarchs – and the censorship and emotional damage it causes. By Julie Posetti and Kaylee Williams
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Wael al-Dahdouh: ‘Gaza's journalists are forced to tread on our pain, and go out and report’
Al Jazeera’s Wael al-Dahdouh, who returned to work within days of his family being killed by an Israeli strike, recalls his grief, determination and sense of isolation at covering a war while being personally attacked
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Crop tops and thongs: how Epstein's friend Les Wexner sexualised children's fashion
The paedophile’s close professional relationship with clothing billionaire Les Wexner coincided with a dark, Lolita-like period in fashion when girls were invited to age up and women to age down, writes Deborah Frances-White
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As a gay man living in Hungary, Orbán’s defeat has changed my life
Novelist Krisztián Marton was contemplating leaving his country under the oppressive Fidesz government. Then came a vote, an agonising wait – and a message of unity from the winner he had hardly dared hope for
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The five ways Trump could attempt a coup, by fascism expert Timothy Snyder
Despite the debacle in Iran, a president at war has several pressure points at his disposal to postpone, restrict and ultimately cancel democracy, writes the historian
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John Simpson: Today, governments can get away with anything. Israel is getting away with journacide
There used to be some sense that killing a reporter would mean serious consequences. Now that understanding has vanished, writes the BBC’s world affairs editor
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Israel is waging war on Lebanon. Why is the world calling it a "ground operation"?
I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening there now is an invasion. This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention. By Carole Cadwalladr
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Big Tech tried to get young people addicted. Now the reckoning has begun
Two seismic court decisions in the US have intervened where legislators have failed to defend social media users from exploitation, writes campaigner Zamaan Qureshi
Tech
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Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat, writes Carole Cadwalladr
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In a world of war, abuse and rising fascism, ‘woke’ was never the enemy
Mainstream conservatives and even centrists rounded on progressive culture as though it were a threat to society. Now they see where the real threat lay, writes Dorian Lynskey
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General Sir Richard Shirreff: Trump is trapped in a doomed war. What should Britain do now?
The US is deploying tactics without strategy in its hubristic attack on Iran. The UK cannot afford to join it in its mistake, writes the former senior Nato commander
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This is Netanyahu’s war. Trump was just afraid of missing out
For four decades, the Israeli premier has wanted to attack Iran but could never persuade a US president to join him. Former diplomat Arthur Snell asks: what’s changed?
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The public remembers Iraq. Why doesn't the press?
Seven in 10 Britons are sceptical about UK involvement in Iran, but their newspapers have other ideas. Some of us recall the last time Fleet Street was so disastrously in favour of war, writes former Observer home affairs editor Martin Bright
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Hooked on dopamine, fuelled by testosterone, powered by AI: this is the broligarchs’ war
Three weeks ago, briefly, the world was focused on Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of women and girls. Now, as conflict rages, the tide of hyper-masculinity has risen again, writes Carole Cadwalladr
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