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The Latest Articles by Arwa Mahdawi

Good news: men have stopped disrupting women’s sport with dildos. Bad news: now they’re betting on their periods

Speculating on basketball players’ menstrual cycles is creepy and intrusive. In other words, it’s just what you’d expect when women must be punished for standing out, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Why is this Fox News host speculating about AOC’s sex life?

Even his colleague has dubbed Jesse Watters’s claim about Ocasio-Cortez and Stephen Miller ‘creepy’

The Guardian - US

If a four-year-old can pronounce a name correctly, so can a politician

When someone’s name is repeatedly botched, we shouldn’t give the perpetrators the benefit of the doubt. Just ask NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Taylor Swift’s ode to Travis Kelce is cringe – but is it worse than these other terrible lyrics?

The singer-songwriter has proved herself a modern-day Shagspeare with Wood, a paean to the penis. When it comes to shocking lyrics, though, it faces strong competition, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

US prosecutors keep charging women with ‘pregnancy-related crimes’

In the two years after Roe v Wade was overturned, hundreds were charged amid growing acceptance of ‘fetal personhood’

The Guardian - US

Why I have had it with entitled dog owners

You know the types – they let their hound jump all over you and don’t clear up after them. Bring on their poo-nishment, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Sperm racing is all the rage among the tech bros. Why am I not surprised?

It started as a gag, but Eric Zhu’s sperm races are doing good work in putting male fertility under the microscope – literally, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

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Trump’s war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women

A concern for women’s health is absolutely not at the heart of it – rather, this is yet another way to control women

The Guardian - US

US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza

Reports say PR teams are busy rewriting history in real time – not that the American media needs the help

The Guardian - US

I’ll admit it; I’ve become a late-in-life semicolon lover

Vonnegut hated them and Lincoln thought them ‘useful little chaps’. I, meanwhile, have come round to the charms of this controversial punctuation mark after years on the fence, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Someone has to drag the US out of the hellscape of Trumpism. Who better than AOC?

Yes, the Democratic congresswoman is flawed – but she’s a fighter. Let’s not write her off as too young or too female, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

107 Days by Kamala Harris review – no closure, no hope

The former presidential candidate sticks to the script in a memoir that will only cause further bad blood

The Guardian - UK

Even Tucker Carlson is worried about Trump’s free speech crackdown

The former Fox News host is speaking out against the administration’s response to the Charlie Kirk shooting

The Guardian - US

It’s not all lies, lies, lies with Trump – sometimes he’s unnervingly honest

As the US president comes to the UK, let’s give credit where it’s due: he wasn’t lying when he said smart people don’t like him, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Yes, British democracy is under threat – from Musk and his billions, not desperate people on small boats

Tesla’s boss has already done his best to destabilise the US, Canada and Germany. Keir Starmer needs to push back, says Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

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‘Everyone’s become more extreme’: Palestinian artist Samia Halaby on being banned, exiled – and now celebrated

At 88, she has won a Munch award for artistic freedom – despite her pioneering work being cancelled by the US university she studied at. She talks protest, polarisation and propaganda

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‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy

The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experiment to be over ...

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Women’s suffrage is apparently up for debate again in America

The country’s finest male intellectuals – including some in positions of power – are weighing in on the matter

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What do you call Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar pay deal? Obscene

Tesla’s board is dangling a gargantuan payout in front of its chief. Is it a manipulative ploy or a desperate stunt?

The Guardian - UK

What is the truth about Trump and Epstein? The story keeps getting murkier ...

Whatever happened between the pair, questions about their relationship are not going away. This enigma is ageing like raw milk, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - US

Melania Trump is right that the robots are here – but she’s wrong on how to handle it

The first lady wants to help children use AI. Perhaps instead she should ask her husband to stop gutting public education

The Guardian - UK

Welcome on board this aircraft. Please return your seat to the upright position – for ever

Air rage episodes are on the rise – many sparked by seat problems. Surely Trump could use his executive overreach to impose an outright ban on recliners, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference

As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add up, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - US

Everyone’s got a theory on Taylor Swift’s engagement – even JD Vance

Will she go Maga? Will it change the NFL or lift the stock market? The left-field claims are everywhere

The Guardian - UK

Why does the Maga elite love conspicuous cosmetic surgery?

Mar-a-Lago face is suddenly everywhere – and there is a version for both men and women, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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