The Latest Articles by Arwa Mahdawi

Trump keeps insulting female journalists

Trump has a disconcerting tendency to attack the press – but especially female reporters, whom he holds in particular ire

The Guardian - US · Nov 29, 2025

Why on earth would Meghan still want to be called the Duchess of Sussex?

She and her husband seem keen on their titles and accolades, and less enthusiastic about putting in the work that ordinarily goes with them, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2025

JD Vance might want to run in 2028 – but does he have a Palantir-shaped problem?

The VP wouldn’t be where he is today without the patronage of the Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. But with voters becoming more and more concerned about the firm’s surveillance tech, could that relationship affect his chances, asks Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2025

Chuck Schumer should quit – but would his imaginary friends agree?

The US government was shut down for weeks – and then Democrats shrugged their shoulders and gave up

The Guardian - US · Nov 15, 2025

How can we make the housing crisis even worse? Donald Trump has a plan

A proposal touting 50-year mortgages could double interest payments and worsen inequality

The Guardian - US · Nov 13, 2025

Everybody panic – the workplace has become too ‘feminized’!

This week, Mexico’s president was groped in public. But a New York Times podcast is fretting about excessive wokeness

The Guardian - US · Nov 8, 2025

Mamdani’s mayoral race was marred by unhinged Islamophobia. It’s not going away soon

The racist abuse that Zohran Mamdani is still facing proves how normalized bigotry is. We need to keep calling it out

The Guardian - US · Nov 6, 2025

Usha Vance hasn’t fully Maga-fied herself yet. Is she having moments of doubt?

The second lady is no victim – she has been a major force in JD’s meteoric rise. But as a former Democrat, what does she really think of the political world she’s landed in?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2025

Trump and his media buddies are taking the muddling of reality to a whole new level

How scared should we be by Trump’s heavily edited appearance on a US news programme this weekend, and Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, asks Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2025

Katie Miller had a podcast meltdown and threatened the citizenship of a critic

Threatening to deport your critics, even those with US citizenship, seems to have become Maga policy

The Guardian - US · Nov 1, 2025