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Opinion

  • Emma Brockes

    Digested week: the nice blonde lady from England delivers

    Emma Brockes
    A Republican falls victim to Emily Maitlis, the mayor of Paris dips her toe in the Seine, and a yearning for summer rain
  • Steve Phillips

    Trump’s pick of JD Vance is a clear signal: this is a fight over America’s identity

    Steve Phillips
  • Sidney Blumenthal

    To his supporters, Trump is a martyred messiah, resurrected after crucifixion

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • Alex Jones, with a beard and wearing a suit jacket and shirt unbuttoned by a few buttons, holds up his hands as he speaks in front of microphones

    Why the Trump attack has spawned myriad conspiracies theories – from left and right alike

    Colin Dickey
  • Robert Reich

    We need to do all we can to lower the anger pervading American politics

    Robert Reich
  • Owen Jones

    The American republic is crumbling before us – and Democrats must share the blame

    Owen Jones

  • Psychedelic drugs have great therapeutic benefit – if understood on their own terms

    Ross Ellenhorn and Dimitri Mugianis

  • Aileen Cannon has taken a sledgehammer to the rule of law

    Laurence H Tribe and Dennis Aftergut

  • I’m from Appalachia. JD Vance doesn’t represent us – he only represents himself

    Neema Avashia

  • ‘Turning down the temperature’ shouldn’t mean silencing all criticism of Trump

    Margaret Sullivan

  • Unfortunately, gun violence – against Trump or anyone else – is all too American

    Rebecca Solnit

  • Trump is an authoritarian who must not win. Saying that is not inciting violence

    Jan-Werner Müller

  • Is there anything predictable about presidential politics?

  • Blue Maga: we need to talk about the cult-like turn of the Democratic party

    Mehdi Hasan
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World view

  • Van Badham

    Gossip, my friends, is both a moral mission and a pleasure. It’s also something those in power can’t control

    Van Badham
  • Polly Toynbee

    Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet on it

    Polly Toynbee
  • Andy Beckett

    Tough on elites, tough on the causes of elites: that’s how Starmer can defeat the allure of populism

    Andy Beckett

  • My queer friends in Italy are so worn down by discrimination, they don’t notice it. Here’s why

    Viola Di Grado

  • Inhumane treatment of kids in custody won’t make Queenslanders safer. Empathy must triumph over fear

    Natalie Lewis

  • A record sentence for a Zoom call, arrests for those holding signs outside. This is a blight on British democracy

    George Monbiot

  • When the weather forecast says it’s 13C but it ‘feels like’ 11C, what exactly does it mean?

    Nick Miller

  • David Cameron failed to foist new houses on rural areas. Why does Keir Starmer think he’ll succeed?

    Simon Jenkins

  • The hottest new trend in streaming TV? Episodes released a week at a time

    Rebecca Shaw

  • Britain’s system for tackling wrongful convictions failed me spectacularly. Overhaul the CCRC now

    Andrew Malkinson

  • I am well off, but have never felt able to enjoy it. This summer, I’ll change my relationship with money

    Lola Mendez

Editorials

  • Joe Biden waves as he turns away from a podium with US flags in the background.

    The Observer view on Joe Biden: he must step aside to stop Donald Trump

  • Joe Biden at an independence day celebration, Washington, 4 July

    The Guardian view on Joe Biden’s re-election bid: Democrats can’t go on like this

    • Masoud Pezeshkian greets his supporters in Tehran a day after the presidential election.

      The Guardian view on Iran’s moderate president: modest hopes must be acted upon

    • Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event on 15 June 2024 in Detroit.

      The Guardian view on Trump and presidential immunity: the return of the king

    • Donald Trump (L) looks at US president Joe Biden during the CNN presidential debate at the CNN Studios on 27 June 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.

      The Guardian view on Joe Biden: Democrats must seize the wheel, not drift to disaster

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