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The Latest Articles by Arwa Mahdawi

‘The US lost its shame muscle’: why sex no longer scandalizes in politics

While Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels made headlines, scandals like this don’t move the needle for US voters

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Rashida Tlaib was unfairly smeared by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash

Unfortunately, what’s happening to Tlaib is far from unique. Advocating for basic Palestinian human rights has always been billed as ‘controversial’

The Guardian - US

Trump’s on Truth Social MAKING NO SENSE AT ALL AGAIN

We are all now so desensitised to Trump that it can be easy to forget he lacks the ability to string a sentence together. Yet he’s frighteningly close to being back in charge, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Peeping Toms and ‘black Nazis’ – what the Mark Robinson scandal tells us about the US election race

The Republican party has more than its share of mean and misguided representatives. But Robinson, the man running for governor of North Carolina, has a good claim to have outdone them all, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Trump says he’s the ‘leader’ on IVF, but Republicans are blocking national access

The ex-president may not be able to explain how in vitro fertilization works, but he’s had a lot to say about it lately

The Guardian - US

JD Vance’s obsession with cats is bizarre. He needs to stop spreading fake mews

From banging on about ‘childless cat ladies’ to spreading racist rumours about Haitians eating pets, Trump’s running mate can’t seem to move on from his strange fixation with felines, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Melania Trump has a memoir coming out – and she’s acting pretty strangely

There has been surprisingly little fanfare about the book, which is being published next month. Is the former first lady about to reveal all?

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Surgery, shame and self-erasure: four female writers on the tyranny of impossible beauty standards

How did Botox become so popular? And why are teenage girls using anti-wrinkle cream? As a new film, The Substance, considers our obsession with youth and good looks, writers reflect on how this has shaped their lives

The Guardian - UK

Killing a baby ‘after birth’ is homicide and legal nowhere. What is Trump on about?

The ex-president repeated the rightwing talking point during the debate with Harris, and now even Fox News is validating it

The Guardian - US

Are novelists who worry about the rise of AI really ‘classist and ableist’?

An international writing organisation appeared to greenlight the use of AI, prompting anger, the resignation of four board members and an entire creative community to ask: ‘What?!’

The Guardian - UK

Who won Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s first debate? Our panel reacts

Harris may have been light on policy, but she was able to bait an ‘unhinged’ Trump into a number of traps

The Guardian - US

Is Taylor Swift a secret Trump supporter?

The star endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 – but she has been decidedly tightlipped about the current race for the presidency, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk is intrigued by the idea women can’t think freely because of ‘low T’

Every time it seems he can’t possibly sink any lower, the billionaire CEO grabs a shovel and starts digging

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Israeli podcasters are laughing about genocide. What would it take to stop?

It would be unfair to say these guys represent everyone in Israel, so I’m not going to say that. They said it themselves

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Yes, it sounds like a conspiracy theory. But maybe our phones really are listening to us

Big brands already know far too much about us. But Cox Media Group’s ‘Active Listening’ software adds a whole new layer of creepiness, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump is backing free IVF? You can practically smell the desperation

The former president is a legally defined sexual predator whose party is rolling back reproductive rights. It will take more than his latest half-baked idea to win back female voters, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Jessica Parker is shutting down her shoe company? Things are looking grim for high heels

Heels make your legs look great and you feel instantly powerful. But that’s not enough for gen Z, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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So Starbucks’ CEO commutes to work by private jet? Let’s not pretend the super-rich care about the planet

It’s paper straws and compostable cups for the masses, space travel and $600m weddings for their overlords. No wonder everyone who can afford it wants a doomsday bunker, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Harris wants to bring ‘joy, joy, joy’ to Americans. What about Palestinians?

Pro-Palestinian protesters at the Democratic national convention have been met with stony faces, jeers – and violence

The Guardian - UK

Kamala Harris’s speech was the test of her political life. She passed, but there will be others – not least Gaza

The Democrats’ candidate radiated joy, and talked as if she really cared. But the lack of pro-Palestinian voices in Chicago was notable, says Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - US

Stop using the term ‘centrist’. It doesn’t mean what you think it does

If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy, wrote Orwell. That applies today more than ever

The Guardian - AU

Israel-Gaza war: Israeli police arrest four suspected over settler attack on Palestinian village – as it happened

Three adults and one minor arrested over suspected acts of terrorism against Palestinians, Israeli security services say

The Guardian - UK

How did ‘rawdogging’ become part of polite conversation?

The word only ever used to have a sexual connotation. But thanks to semantic bleaching, it is suddenly everywhere, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Sorry, Blake Lively: using a movie about domestic violence to sell stuff is not a good look

In a car-crash promotional tour for the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s controversial novel It Ends With Us, the actor has tried to flog not only her husband’s gin brand, but also a haircare line, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Keep talking, JD! Vance’s creepy views on ‘females’ are repelling women voters

Does Donald Trump’s running mate think there is any point to ‘postmenopausal females’ beyond free childcare?

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