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North America

On wiretaps and drone strikes, it’s time for liberals to accept that Obama is worse than Bush

By Mehdi Hasan - 13 Jun 2013

On questions of “US national security”, from wiretaps to Gitmo to...
What do Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning and the Steubenville hacker have in common?

By Laurie Penny - 10 Jun 2013

Expose injustice and pay the price.
Giving back choice: why New York's sex trafficking law needs to change

By Lauren Hersh - 10 Jun 2013

It's time to listen to the real experts, says Lauren Hersh.
Edward Snowden: The NSA whistleblower unmasks

By Nicky Woolf - 09 Jun 2013

The whistleblower who leaked Top Secret documents to the ...
The NSA's data tapping: America through the PRISM

By Nicky Woolf - 07 Jun 2013

The Guardian's stories of the last two days are the...
Will Obama be remembered as the Snooper President?

By Nicky Woolf - 06 Jun 2013

The President is caught riding rough-shod over privacy for the...

Global issues

Leader: No one wants to take charge in the “G-Zero” world

By New Statesman - 13 Jun 2013
From G8 to G20 to G-Zero: Why no one wants to take charge in the new global order

By Ian Bremmer - 11 Jun 2013

There are three big unfolding geopolitical stories: China’s rise...
In a generation, everything has changed for British Muslim women

By Irna Qureshi - 15 May 2013

My mother and I both married men from Pakistan. Both marriages...
19 April 1952: Leonard Woolf asks, is the UN still-born?

By Leonard Woolf - 19 Apr 2013

From our correspondence.
Are black feminists too defensive about violence in our communities?

By Rahila Gupta - 01 Apr 2013

The desire to avoid the racism that characterises some debates...
Everything you wanted to know about One Billion Rising

By Lucy Provan - 04 Feb 2013

Join this global movement on 14 February to end violence against...

South America

Answers to war

By Juan Manuel Santos - 13 Jun 2013

We have been fighting the war on drugs for 40 years at great cost...
Chile’s slow thaw: Benny Pollack on the "NO" campaign

By Benny Pollack - 22 Apr 2013

30 September 1988.
Why Allende had to die

By Gabriel García Márquez - 03 Apr 2013

Sedition in Santiago.
Hugo Chávez dies aged 58: what will his legacy be?

By Helen Lewis - 05 Mar 2013

The Venezuelan leader's death will trigger a presidential...
Leader: The mixed legacy of Chávez

By New statesman - 31 Jan 2013
Hugo Chávez: An elected autocrat

By Rory Carroll - 30 Jan 2013

He kept power by bullying those who dissented – and his departure...

Middle East

Can the Iranian regime survive yet more political cannibalism?

By Trita Parsi - 13 Jun 2013

The upcoming elections in Iran will be neither free nor fair,...
Why does the left find it so difficult to take a position on Syria?

By Assed Baig - 10 Jun 2013

It is now the responsibility of the left to support the Syrian...
“Ask anyone who has blood in them to help us”

By Julie Bindel - 30 May 2013

Fleeing Syria does not always protect women from sexual violence...
The latest Israel-Palestine peace talks were doomed to fail before they began

By Matt Hill - 24 May 2013

If you want the bottom line about why William Hague and other...
A lone voice for peace

By James Harkin - 16 May 2013

An interview with Haytham Manna.
Israel row: The bid to defund Toronto LGBT Pride is straightforward censorship

By Peter Tatchell - 15 May 2013

The bid to ban pro-Palestine group Queers Against Israeli...

Australasia

Julia Gillard "on the menu": Three cheers for a bit of in-your-face, no-frills sexism

By Glosswitch - 13 Jun 2013

The party fundraiser menu that offered to "serve up" parts of...
Australia's Tony Abbott is a man for everyone and no one

By Liam McLaughlin - 23 Apr 2013

It remains far from clear whether Tony Abbott can win September's...
NZ parliament bursts into song as same-sex marriage bill is passed

By Alex Hern - 17 Apr 2013

Pokarekare ana / Nga wai o waiapu / Whiti atu koe hine /...
Labor isn’t working

By James Rose - 21 Mar 2013

The party's historic machinery – its support from the trade union...
Making the world a more dangerous place – the eager role of Julia Gillard

By John Pilger - 25 Oct 2012

Gillard has returned Australia to its historic relationship with...

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The life and death of Arthur Murray

By John Pilger - 04 Oct 2012

The story of an Australian hero whose skin was the wrong colour...

11 comments

Asia

Investment in Blood by Frank Ledwidge: A devastating indictment of the utter, unanswerable folly of Afghanistan

By Sherard Cowper-Cowles - 16 Jun 2013

Frank Ledwidge, once a “justice adviser” in Britain’s para-...
Punk and disorderly

By Matthew Collin - 06 Jun 2013

An interview with Pussy Riot's Yekaterina Samutsevich.
Why the world needs better loos

By Helen Lewis - 05 Jun 2013

Somehow I don’t think I’ll get many takers for my next Faeces Are...
Out of the cold

By Alex Preston - 29 May 2013

A cultural renaissance in Siberia.
Imran Khan still has an important role to play

By Sadiq Khan - 23 May 2013

The UK has long enjoyed a rich relationship with Pakistan.
Tash Aw: "It's a very complex form of bigotry"

By Philip Maughan - 10 May 2013

The Malaysian novelist on fiction, immigration and the...

Europe

The Swedish riots: What really happened?

By Liam McLaughlin - 14 Jun 2013

Inequality, not immigration, was what sparked the unrest.
Small island

By Helena Drysdale - 13 Jun 2013

As anti-Islamist violence erupted across Turkey, another threat...
"A direct blow to democracy": the switch-off of Greece's state broadcaster

By Yiannis Baboulias - 12 Jun 2013

After the closure of ERT, the country's political future hangs in...
People have killed their fear of authority - and the protests are growing

By Ece Temelkuran - 03 Jun 2013

What began in an Istanbul park has tapped in to years of...
The Belgrade train

By Fiona Sampson - 30 May 2013

A journey to the troubled heart of the Balkans.
Wu Ming: A band of militant storytellers

By Celluloid Liber... - 29 May 2013

The Celluloid Liberation Front speak to the Italian literary...

Africa

Egypt–Ethiopia crisis: “No Nile, No Egypt”

By Martin Plaut - 11 Jun 2013

Long years of deadlock and bitter recrimination are now coming to...
The real winners from today's hunger summit

By Christine Haigh - 07 Jun 2013

The real causes of hunger are inequality of wealth and power, not...
Mau Mau settlement: the Kenyan government’s shame

By Martin Plaut - 06 Jun 2013

The British are certainly in the dock today, but so are the...
The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux: How not to write about Africa

By Hedley Twidle - 30 May 2013

A decade after his last African travelogue, Dark Star Safari,...
The African Union turns 50, but the continent's people deserve so much more

By Martin Plaut - 25 May 2013

Martin Plaut asks how a body with so much hope can have done so...
On the fifth anniversary of Tonderai Ndira's death, how much has changed in Zimbabwe?

By Mark Olden - 14 May 2013

Amid all the bloodshed of Zimbabwe’s 2008 election, it was the...

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