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  • In a cloud of pink gas, a group of people hold a black banner that says in white letters Cease Genocide.

    US surveillance of pro-Palestinian speech has a direct line to McCarthyism

    Chip Gibbons
    The pretext of counter-terrorism as a reason to investigate Americans started with ‘red squads’, Huac and J Edgar Hoover
  • ‘An inverted American flag … flew in front of Justice Samuel Alito’s home … But Alito says his wife, Martha-Ann, ran her opinion up the flagpole … ’

    Rightwing US supreme court justices are in trouble. So they’ve discovered feminism

    Judith Levine
  • Robert Reich

    Biden’s record on the economy is good but voters don’t feel it. Character, not policy, is key to victory

    Robert Reich
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Ivanka Trump looks like the comeback kid – and we should all be afraid

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • A passenger walks between a fountain and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 in Detroit<br>A passenger walks between a fountain and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport February 2, 2006. Northwest Airlines is currently restructuring in bankruptcy. REUTERS/John Gress jumbo40

    I was detained at a US airport and asked about Israel and Gaza for 2 hours. Why?

    Ilan Pappé
  • Sidney Blumenthal

    Michael Cohen learned that membership in Trump’s inner circle has a harsh cost

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it

    Moira Donegan
  • Now is the time for Albanese to dial up pressure on Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange

    Greg Barns
  • Alito’s flag shows the US supreme court is neither honorable nor functional any more

    Moira Donegan
  • Harrison Butker’s misogynistic graduation speech shows the bigots are winning

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • I’ve never felt more disillusioned as a Palestinian

    Ahmad Ibsais
  • Don’t tell Harrison Butker working women helped him win three Super Bowls

    Melissa Jacobs
  • What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot

    Robert Reich
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  • Rokhaya Diallo

    French cinema tried to hide its violence against women. At Cannes, we’re calling it out

    Rokhaya Diallo
  • Frances Ryan

    The Tories are letting stalkers and abusers out of prison - what better way to start an election campaign?

    Frances Ryan
  • Henry Hill

    Tory MPs didn’t expect a July general election – and now they are rightly furious

    Henry Hill
  • A nuclear reactor next door? It could be good news on the home front

  • Australian politicians think 15-year-olds are old enough to go to jail but not go on Facebook. They’re kidding themselves

    Samantha Floreani
  • A humiliating election speech, with little to offer. Sunak’s USP was competence – what of that now?

    Martin Kettle
  • Rev Vennells wept but couldn’t remember much about sending innocent subpostmasters to jail. All so long ago

    Marina Hyde
  • How a Labour MP became a rightwing figurehead – and enabled the clampdown on protest

    Andy Beckett
  • Raising jobseeker is not ‘fiscally sustainable’? Sorry, but that is flat out wrong

    Greg Jericho
  • As the ICC seeks arrests, I ask those who facilitated the Gaza slaughter: what were you thinking?

    Owen Jones
  • Trigger-happy councils mowing down our spring flowers? There’s a better way to do things

    Phineas Harper
  • Flanked by US labour union representatives, Joe Biden signs off tariff increases on Chinese imports in the Rose Garden at the White House on 14 May.

    The Guardian view on free trade: an idea whose time has gone

  • Karim Khan

    The Guardian view on the ICC: undermining this court undermines international standards

    • Yoav Gallant, wearing headphones, gazes at a tank and boxes of supplies near the border between Israel and Gaza.

      The Observer view: it’s up to Israel’s allies to persuade Netanyahu to stop standing in the way of peace

    • A man wearing a baseball cap and a white tabard, with a stethoscope rouund his neck, examines a child as another, slumped against a wall, looks on.

      The Observer view on Sudan’s civil war: a humanitarian disaster we choose to ignore

    • Displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah

      The Guardian view on Israel’s far right: occupation of Palestinian territory feeds its extremism

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