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  • Police begin clearing pro-Palestine protest encampment at UCLA

    Police let violent mobs attack UCLA students. This is what lawlessness looks like

    Judith Levine
    UCLA watched the chaos unfold in the middle of the night and did nothing until it was far too late
  • FILE PHOTO: Protests continue on Columbia University campus in support of Palestinians<br>FILE PHOTO: Protesters link arms outside Hamilton Hall barricading students inside the building at Columbia University, despite an order to disband the protest encampment supporting Palestinians or face suspension, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs/File Photo

    American politicians forget: disruption and disorder are the point of protests

    Patrick Gaspard
  • Robert Reich

    I remember the 1960s crackdowns against war protesters. This is a repeat

    Robert Reich
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The adultification of children has consequences from Palestine to the US

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • people sit on the ground in a circle with tents in the background

    Student encampments have the potential to strengthen US democracy

    Jan-Werner Müller
  • Black-and-white photo of man standing in front people holding a protest sign

    Let us remember the last time students occupied Columbia University

    Omar Barghouti, Tanaquil Jones and Barbara Ransby

  • Florida’s abortion ban has brought fear and chaos. This is the right’s vision for the US

    Moira Donegan

  • Twelve horses died around the Kentucky Derby last year. Little has changed since

    Elizabeth Banicki

  • Challengers got everything right about my sport – apart from the sexiness

    Andrea Petkovic

  • Does shooting her puppy rule out Kristi Noem as Trump’s running mate? Don’t bet on it

    Emma Brockes

  • ‘I’m feeling paralysed’: they arrested my friends for protesting on campus

    Grey Battle

  • Kristi Noem’s dog-killing embodies the cruel phoneyness of today’s Republicans

    Ryan Busse

  • Why are US campuses facing an orgy of state repression in the ‘land of the free’?

    Cas Mudde

  • Why hasn’t the US called for an investigation into mass graves in Gaza?

    Arwa Mahdawi
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World view

  • Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan after last week’s elections results – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan after last week’s elections results – cartoon

  • Simon Jenkins

    England’s metro mayors make a farce of local democracy. They must be scrapped

    Simon Jenkins
  • Back to school. View from the back of a happy dad escorts his sons schoolchildren to school. Parental care for children.

    How can we expect mothers to return to work if we’re so reluctant to allow fathers to stay home?

    Myke Bartlett
    As a bloke, I have been met with disbelief and suspicion when I’ve applied for part-time work. Didn’t I realise this was women’s work?

  • Vampire facials, under-eye fillers, ‘prejuvenation’: how did cosmetic tweakments get so extreme?

    Georgina Lawton

  • I stopped lying to please people – and I’ve never felt more free

    Radhika Sanghani

  • There is a way for Starmer’s Labour to fix the big rift with Muslim voters – if it has the will

    Miqdaad Versi

  • As the Channel tunnel turns 30, England needs to grow up and acknowledge its deep bond with France

    Jonn Elledge

  • Unloved but unchallenged, Sunak appears safe – because only a fool would want his job now

    Henry Hill

  • What are Australia’s family law reforms, and how will they help women and children fleeing violence?

    Zoe Rathus for the Conversation

  • Buddha taught us to be happy with less. How does this apply to the climate crisis?

    Bhikkhu Sujato and Nadine Levy

  • We pay a lot more for a lot less, and people know it. That’s why Sunak’s Tories were thrashed in these elections

    John Harris

Editorials

  • Can Dündar

    The Guardian view on transnational repression: dissidents need safety in their new homes

  • Tents at Everest base camp.

    The Observer view on overtourism: sometimes, the planet’s hotspots are best left unvisited

    • The Brics summit in Johannesburg on 23 August 2023, L to R: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s president Xi Jinping, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

      The Guardian view on globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich

    • Donald Trump in court on 22 April 2024

      The Guardian view on arming Ukraine: US Congress votes against appeasement

    • People inspect the wreckage of a partially collapsed building due to Israeli bombardment in Gaza on 18 April 2024

      The Guardian view on the catastrophe in Gaza: it must not be overshadowed by the Iran crisis

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