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Gasland director Josh Fox’s new HBO documentary, The Welcome Table, argues the climate emergency is inseparable from empire, capitalism, and the fight for universal freedom of movement.

As the US tries to limit the damage from the Iran war, its vice-president has admitted he doesn’t understand diplomacy. Of course not: he’s been too busy churning out another memoir.

Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella eked out a marginal victory over his left-wing opponent Iván Cepeda in Colombia’s presidential race after crude election interference by the US government. .

The administration interrupted data streams that are key to forecasting. These systems should not be vulnerable to political whims.

Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is often thought of as a free-market dogmatist. .

Worrying about whether AI can do your job is a blind alley, Cory Doctorow argues. The real danger is AI’s bubble: a speculative fantasy built on convincing bosses to replace workers with systems that can’t actually do what their salesmen promise.

We’ve shown that rapid, measurable progress is achievable in our cities. Here’s how that can now be replicated worldwide.

What the US president succeeded in obliterating was any rationale he offered for going to war.

Andy Burnham says he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. .

The former Federal Reserve chair was a smart guy – but he had a huge blind spot. Here’s what I wish I’d said to him.

June 23, 2016, has gone down as the day Britain departed from the mainstream by voting to leave the European Union. .

The Young Patriots were a group of radical poor white Southern migrants in Chicago who allied with the Black Panthers. .

Palestinian American organizer and socialist Aber Kawas, endorsed by Zohran Mamdani, speaks to Jacobin about her campaign for New York’s state senate, her family’s history with ICE deportations, and tying the pro-Palestine movement to US domestic politics.

The SpaceX IPO made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire — and exposed the hollowness of the claim that the stock market has been democratized. .

Voters are upset that Trump has failed to deliver on his economic promises. That’s bad news for Republicans in November.

White-collar work is at risk across the board, including at elite consulting firms that used to be a pathway to the 1%.

Despite Friday’s awful rail crash, it was the PM-in-waiting’s journey from Manchester to London that dominated the headlines.

Worry was a pesky, uninvited visitor. I envied my partner and children who appeared genuinely switched off and relaxed.

From Gaza to the Peter Mandelson row, his abandoned pledges to the ‘island of strangers’ claim, Starmer’s time at No 10 was truly dismal.

The Brexit vote showed that class still matters in British politics – and the changes needed are ones the EU would never have allowed.

Everyone these days wants to optimise their workouts, but when a study seems too good to be true, it usually is.

Ten years on, our writers met to reflect on whether leaving the EU has made the UK richer or more racist – and how the union is doing without us.

After the 2016 referendum, panellists from other EU countries responded in the Guardian. Ten years on, we’ve gone back to them .

As the deadly H5N1 virus makes landfall in Australia, experts hope strong biosecurity will protect poultry and dairy cattle.

As prime minister, Starmer acted with dignity. What a pity that those Labour colleagues who ousted him could not do the same.

Erling Braut Haaland might seem like an especially showy millionaire footballer. .

Keir Starmer marketed himself as a human rights lawyer who stood up for the downtrodden. .

The Left argues that workers deserve the fruits of their own labor, while the Right says that some workers contribute much more than others and so deserve higher pay. .

Experiments with a shorter workweek have shown that working fewer hours improves worker well-being and productivity. .

Every time our economic system generates another crash, the state is on hand with public money to bail out private losses. .

Less than a third are likely to be registered in November. We must work to ensure they have a voice.

My dad gives smart advice, but it always leads me down paths that didn’t feel like ‘me’. When, and how, can we stop listening to our dads?

Tech giants including Meta, Google, and Apple are facing increasing popular resentment and losing more and more major court battles. .

Brazil’s powerful agribusiness lobby advanced a raft of bills last month in a legislative shock-and-awe campaign. .

The far-right National Rally boasts that it represents French workers, yet has increasingly close ties to big business. .

When asked what his takeaways from the Iran war were, Trump said he believed there were no limits to his power.

We’re both addicted to our screens. But at least we’re watching together – it’s dystopian bonding for the modern age.

Far-right millionaire Abelardo de la Espriella has a narrow lead ahead of Colombia’s election runoff. .

New York’s Democratic primary elections have involved massive amounts of outside spending from corporate, pro-Israel interests in recent years. .

Football’s governing body, FIFA, won’t even stand up for players, referees, and fans who are being harassed by the US authorities. .

The agreement shows the US is in a weaker position than before the war.

The desecration of a ruler’s symbols is among the oldest forms of political revolt.

The much-hyped deal, which is set to be formally signed on Friday in Geneva, doesn’t end the war. It’s essentially a 60-day extension of a ceasefire.

The sordid UFC event represents his own efforts to symbolically fuse the federal government with his person, to insist that he is America and is the state.

Women in heterosexual marriages continue to do most of the caregiving. Now some are offering guides to AI-fying parenting.

Following a failed relationship in my 40s, solitude is tempting. But I’m not giving up on finding love, warts and all.

The economic principles taught in school aren’t as relevant as hype, connections and total, arbitrary control.

The 154ft-tall structure for the UFC Freedom 250 gives Trump a chance to to put the government out to the highest bidder.

‘Piggy’, ‘corrupt’, ‘stupid’: the president keeps lashing out. Here’s how journalists can stand up to him.

To put it plainly, nitrogen hypoxia kills by starving someone of the oxygen needed to sustain life.

The ‘fraud’ he sees is in the very concept of democracy, in the idea that people who don’t agree with or fawn over him might have a say, too.

The president’s immunity from continuing audits made fewer headlines than the ‘anti-weaponization fund’, but it’s no less egregious.

Rocketing violence and an economic chokehold have been overshadowed by conflict elsewhere, but the UK and others must stop looking away.

The UN is set to review the legal status of nicotine. An outright ban would go too far, but there is no case for its easy availability.

The memorandum of understanding signed in Versailles lays bare US failure and the pointlessness of this illegal war.

The US-Iran ceasefire is welcome. But the US president is trying to disguise a failed war of choice as a diplomatic victory.