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How plucky Greenland escaped the European Communities only to end up threatened by the United States
DAT Green
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There are serious questions about Labour and poverty
Tom Clark
United States
Steve Witkoff’s record should worry us all
Alan Rusbridger
Climate
Climate activism after Just Stop Oil
Tim Smedley
United States
Can Five Eyes survive the Signal scandal?
James Ball
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A good death
A good death means holding uncertainty
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Mark Mardell
People
Jon Cruddas on ‘doing God’ in politics
Tom Clark
Welfare State
The devastating reality of disability benefit cuts
Tom Clark
Antisemitism
Trump is no feminist and doesn’t care about antisemitism
Alona Ferber
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Randall Kennedy writes of America’s self-destruction, Michael Ignatieff predicts a new world order and voices from illiberal states reflect on resisting autocrats. Plus, we examine British defence and the future of the media.

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Donald Trump and his cronies are smashing up democratic norms, government institutions and the postwar international order. There are no signs yet that anyone will stop them

Randall Kennedy
As America retreats, Europe must step up
Michael Ignatieff
AI is the media’s chance to reinvent itself
David Caswell, Mary Fitzgerald
Britain’s aircraft carriers: a national embarrassment?
Stuart McGurk
Han Kang versus the Korean establishment
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Sarah Collins
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Donald Trump is surely not a Russian asset. But how else to explain his behaviour?
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More women leaders would solve our autocracy problem
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Steve Witkoff’s record should worry us all
Alan Rusbridger
CLIMATE
Climate activism after Just Stop Oil
Tim Smedley
LIVES
Forget assisted dying, I’m fed up with ‘insisted dying’ 
Vitali Vitaliev
POLITICS
There are serious questions about Labour and poverty
Tom Clark
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONAL
Greenland: the first Brexit
DAT Green
UNITED STATES
Can Five Eyes survive the Signal scandal?
James Ball
TURKEY
Erdoğan imprisoned his political rival in an age of impunity
Ezgi Başaran
THE INSIDER
Can democracy win in Turkey? 
Andrew Adonis
PEOPLE
Jon Cruddas on ‘doing God’ in politics
Tom Clark
UNITED STATES
Europe could blow the west apart
John Bolton
World
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United States
Europe could blow the west apart
The problem is not America itself, but only Donald Trump
John Bolton
The Insider
Can democracy win in Turkey? 
Andrew Adonis
Middle East
Netanyahu’s naked self-interest
Alona Ferber
Syria
Syria’s next chapter
Khaled Mansour
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MARCH 20, 2025
John Sawers: ‘The deep state is what keeps us stable’
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Big oil and the real story of Kyoto
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Q&A: Has journalism become a commodity?
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Prospect Lives: My best sex work clients are married men
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Ash Sarkar: ‘Media is politics by other means’
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Donald Trump and the new world order
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Culture
The book publisher prepping for Trump censorship
Indie publisher Melville House is racing to preserve history, before the US government buries the evidence
Imaan Irfan
Culture
Severance and the art of the mystery reveal
Imogen West-Knights
Culture
‘The Leopard’ is beautifully complicated
Maria Viola Albano
Culture
England’s national poet?
Jeremy Noel-Tod
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We will deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not
On an extraordinary witness statement from the US government
DAT Green
Columns
The AI race shows no country can go it alone
Ethan Zuckerman
Free Speech
How Ben and Jerry’s exposed Trump’s free speech world
Alan Rusbridger
A good death
How green burials became the eco-friendly way to die
Fin Carter
Views
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Language
Chronically single? Sologamy could be the answer
Ever since Carrie Bradshaw married herself in ‘Sex and the City’, sologamy has garnered a long list of devotees. But self-love doesn’t always end in marital bliss
Sarah Ogilvie
People
Richard Osman: ‘Maybe I’ll do a terribly ambitious and disappointing literary novel’
Graeme Green
Brief Encounter
Ash Sarkar: ‘The entire establishment colluded to take Corbyn’s head off’
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Westminster
Rupa Huq’s diary: Bangladesh’s revolution, and why I voted against assisted dying
Rupa Huq
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Public Health gets personal: The case for an AI-driven personalised prevention platform
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