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    Here’s a New Year’s resolution for Trump’s America: no snitching

    Hamilton Nolan
    Choose as your New Year’s mantra that great civic-minded slogan: ‘If you saw something, no you didn’t’
  • Margaret Sullivan

    Why does modern life often feel like the seven circles of digital hell?

    Margaret Sullivan
  • Moira Donegan

    My new year resolution? Abandon new year resolutions once and for all

    Moira Donegan
  • a man behind a microphone

    This is some of what we must do to reform our dysfunctional healthcare system

    Bernie Sanders
  • Someone sleeping on a couch next to a table of half-empty wine bottles.

    An evening of grief once turned into my most liberating New Year’s Eve

    Shanti Nelson
  • Gordon Brown

    My friend Jimmy Carter will be remembered long after other presidents are forgotten. Here’s why

    Gordon Brown
  • Jimmy Carter wasn’t just the 'best former president'. He was the most successful

    Peter G Bourne
  • Is it true that up to half of people have no inner monologue? I investigated

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Jimmy Carter’s life after the presidency set a bar that few others have reached

    Jan-Werner Müller
  • Jimmy Carter was a warrior for peace. We must continue his fight

    Katrina vanden Heuvel
  • Envy, ego, pride and pain: what I learned from publishing my first book

    Hamilton Nolan
  • The year in patriarchy: coconut trees, ‘childless cat ladies’ and crimes against humanity

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term

    Richard Sennett
  • Hail the broligarchy: why 2024 was the year of the bro

    Arwa Mahdawi
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  • Lucy McCormick

    Lab-grown meat is the future for pet food – and that’s a huge opportunity for Britain

    Lucy McCormick
  • Claire Jackson

    Losing my ‘haunted’, mouldy flat was awful. I swore I’d get it back – and I did

    Claire Jackson
  • woman singing

    I started singing in a rock band in my 50s – and learned it could boost my brain health

    Virginia Muzik
    A concussion inspired me to challenge the invisibility of middle age, find my voice and discover how music might ward off dementia
  • My study is a bibliophile’s breakfast, the house is overrun. It’s time for the great book culling to begin

    Paul Daley
  • Meet the young families stuck in their starter homes thanks to the UK housing crisis

    Kirsty Major
  • As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids’ mental health – and it’s terrifying

    Emily Sehmer
  • Before Cephalonia there was a clearing in the Normandy woods, with a spring and a clear, cold stream

    Louis de Bernières
  • This play’s abortion scene made grown men faint – and I’m thrilled it’s about to get a bigger audience

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Flow batteries are the future of renewable energy and Australia could be a world leader – if there’s funding

    Maria Skyllas-Kazacos for the Conversation
  • Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it

    Wes Streeting
  • The death of the middle-class professional spells danger for Labour

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Donald Trump and Elon Musk

    The Guardian view on digital media: the case for better regulation must be made

  • Pope Francis pushes open the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica, formally launching the Holy Year of Mercy at the Vatican on 8 December 2015

    The Guardian view on the tenacity of hope: a necessary virtue in troubled times

    • Ahmed al-Sharaa, head of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, receives foreign visitors in Damascus.

      The Guardian view on Ahmed al-Sharaa and HTS: seeking to rebuild Syria while branded as terrorists

    • A view of the scene after Lt Gen Igor Kirillov and his assistant were killed in an explosion in Moscow on 17 December 2024.

      The Guardian view on a Moscow assassination: Ukraine’s justified strike and Russia’s baseless outrage

    • A smiling man holds up a small boy in front of a Syrian flag.

      The Observer view on Syria: we must reach out a hand of friendship to Damascus

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