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  • Sidney Blumenthal

    The fall of John Cornyn mirrors the fall of the Republican party

    Sidney Blumenthal
    The Texas senator was emblematic of the era between Reagan and Trump, as Republicans shifted from the party of business to a cult of personality
  • memorial with candles outside islamic center of san diego

    Anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism are twin crises. We must confront them together

    Binaifer Nowrojee
  • Dave Schilling

    Spencer Pratt is a reality star pandering to the LA ego. He could be our next mayor

    Dave Schilling
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Can Trump win back young men with a UFC fight on his lawn?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Donald Trump in a navy suit and red tie leans forward at a table with a serious expression

    Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ is nowhere to be seen with Iran

    Mohamad Bazzi
  • An Israeli strike targeting a food warehouse and an open area caused significant damage to vehicles and tents in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on 29 May 2026

    The Guardian view on Israel and Gaza: the threat of further humanitarian catastrophe

  • 260530 Trump Egonomics thumbnail

    What’s the secret to Trump’s financial success?

  • A healthcare worker in blue scrubs with a stethoscope gestures while consulting with a patient across a desk

    Why America is failing its health report card

    Robert B Shpiner
  • Journalist Don Lemon in glasses and a dark coat stands with others outside a courthouse

    Why are journalists being subjected to search warrants in the US?

    Caitlin Vogus
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World view

  • Keir Starmer

    A place where everyone has somewhere of their own, to thrive and feel safe – this will be my politics of home

    Keir Starmer
    Underfunding, systemic failure and awful Tory policies bequeathed us a public and private sector housing crisis. As a priority, we will now fix that, says UK prime minister Keir Starmer
  • Nesrine Malik

    AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment

    Nesrine Malik
  • Seán Gallen

    Yves Sakila’s death has echoes of George Floyd. When will we in Ireland confront our own racism?

    Seán Gallen
  • Two woman sit at a bench smiling

    Envy used to prickle me constantly. But Buddhism teaches us that if someone feels joy, we too can feel it

    Jackie Bailey
  • John Harris

    The right is desperate for a solution to falling birthrates. Who’s going to tell them that the answer is immigration?

    John Harris
  • Simon Tisdall

    When will the EU punch its weight in a perilous world? That’s the question countries eager to join should be asking

    Simon Tisdall
  • Zoe Daniel

    Forming a party wouldn’t make independents less independent. It would strengthen a centrist bloc

    Zoe Daniel
  • Jason Burke

    Look at how Germany defeated the Red Army Faction. The lessons about how to fight terrorism are all there

    Jason Burke
  • Isabel Brooks

    The hill I will die on: Let me tell you the one big problem with art galleries. There’s too much art

    Isabel Brooks

Columnists

  • Pope Leo XIV in white clerical robes and skullcap waves with his palm raised toward the camera

    Why I’m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI

    Francine Prose
  • Judith Levine

    Why Trump isn’t bothering to hide his corruption

    Judith Levine
  • Austin Sarat

    Tennessee’s attempt to execute Tony Carruthers failed. It must not try again

    Austin Sarat
  • Robert Reich

    The language of the American presidency doesn’t apply to Trump

    Robert Reich
  • A woman with long dark hair and a streak of white, appearing to look up and listen in front of a microphone.

    Tulsi Gabbard’s resistance to foreign wars amid Trump’s aggression was her undoing

    Mohamad Bazzi
  • Steven Greenhouse

    Bruce Springsteen is a model for how celebrities should resist Trump

    Steven Greenhouse
  • Dave Schilling

    The office lunch was once a luxury. Now it’s just a pain

    Dave Schilling
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Stephen Miller delivers for Trump: 145,000 US kids separated from their parents

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Why is Elon Musk so threatened by the casting of The Odyssey?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Margaret Sullivan

    Trump self-deals, lies and seems to fall asleep in meetings. The media treats it all as ‘priced in’

    Margaret Sullivan
  • Moira Donegan

    Trump has created a slush fund of taxpayer money to give to his friends

    Moira Donegan
  • Kenneth Roth

    The ICC’s investigation of its chief prosecutor has been a failure

    Kenneth Roth
  • Jamil Smith

    The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter

    Jamil Smith
  • Steven Greenhouse

    Billionaires are trying to lull us into AI complacency. Don’t let them

    Steven Greenhouse
  • Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli strike near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on 27 May 2026.

    The Guardian view on Lebanon’s suffering: the ‘ceasefire’ didn’t stop Israeli attacks. Now they’re intensifying again

  • Pope Leo XIV signs Magnifica Humanitas at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, 25 May 2026.

    The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first

  • Red Cross workers arrive at a health centre to transport people who died of Ebola in Rwampara, Ituri prvince, DRC, on 20 May 2026.

    The Guardian view on tackling Ebola: pathogens aren’t the only things that kill

  • Raúl Castro waving a Cuban flag during a May Day parade at Revolution Square in Havana on 1 May 2025.

    The Guardian view on Cuba: Trump says he can do ‘anything I want’ to the island. It doesn’t belong to him

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