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America celebrates its 250th birthday this week. The US is now the world's most powerful country, and every word and signature of President Donald Trump can shape events around the globe.

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Crowning a healthy populism

Conventional wisdom has it that an autocratic ethnonationalist backlash against global capitalism and liberal democracy is driving 21st-century politics. Yet recent developments have shown the political revolt to be more nuanced. In an era of rapid technological and economic change, people invariably look to the past. But nostalgia can inspire…

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Second term the real test

In one of the most one-sided -- and arguably least exciting -- gubernatorial elections ever, Chadchart Sittipunt secured another landslide victory, earning himself a second and final term at City Hall.

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Venezuela: Things could change

Bad things happen, and some of them are nobody's fault. Big earthquakes in Venezuela are about a century apart (1812, 1902, 2026), so you can't blame the planners and the politicians for not being well prepared for this one. How high a priority should they have given to an event…

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The Guardian view on Andy Burnham’s speech: Rewiring Britain needs Westminster to give up real power

Editorial: The country’s likely next prime minister sketches a post-Thatcherite state built on radical devolution. The test is whether Whitehall yields

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The Guardian view on Venezuela’s earthquake: a test of state capacity and Trump’s promises

Editorial: A natural disaster provides unforgiving clarity in a country already reeling from years of crisis and the unlawful US seizure of Nicolás Maduro

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Burnham will stand or fall on his plans for youth employment: he must put the next generation first

Labour has to match the success of its New Deal for young people in the late 1990s, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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All in together: why we need houses designed for multi-generational living

Comment from Victoria University: With stretched care systems and rising costs, shared households act as vital social infrastructure. But cramped designs are causing strain.

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No doctor wants to have this conversation with a patient. For everyone’s sake, we must

Holistic care for incurably ill people has to include discussions about death and dying – but getting there is hard

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Good vibes from PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham today – but vibes won’t be enough. I hope he knows that

Starmer failed to fix a broken economic model; Burnham must not make the same mistake, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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I had fallen out of love with fiction. Now I’m back in its arms – and relishing every minute

Novels were starting to seem like a thing of the past for me, until I found a book I couldn’t put down. Is there anything better, asks Zoe Williams

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Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that

Modern AI systems are, in effect, a universal adviser to help people do harmful things. We’ll need to harness AI for defense, too

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The US supreme court just put the lives of 1.3 million immigrants in danger

The court’s TPS decision is devastating for those whose countries of origin are deemed unsafe. Congress must act

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Having children makes you smarter? Incredible, but true

Mothers and fathers have healthier, younger-looking brains, according to recent studies. It must be all those years of mental and emotional gymnastics

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Keir Starmer’s attempts to placate big tech were a disaster. Andy Burnham must take a stand

Labour came to power promising to tackle Silicon Valley and stand up to its lobby. But from workers’ rights to online privacy it has failed at almost every turn, says crossbench peer Beeban Kidron

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Why did the BBC hire Ashley Cain? Because it has a warped idea of what young men want

The forefronting of macho personas like Cain’s is cynical, and misses the reality of my generation’s experiences, says Rohan Sathyamoorthy, a 20-year-old writer from London

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Not just for rich people: the progressive case for air conditioning

Air conditioning can bring significant benefits but also real harms. The answer is for it to take its place alongside a comprehensive state plan for climate adaptation, says writer and curator Phineas Harper

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Why the Delhi Gymkhana eviction should terrify every housing society and hospital in India

Part 1 of this series tracked the chaotic five-year descent of the Delhi Gymkhana Club under state control, where court mandates for corporate democracy were buried under a mountain of unadopted accounts, questionable political appointees, and a literal security crisis at the Prime Minister's doorstep.

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International disorder follows a familiar pattern

The shambolic diplomacy between US President Donald Trump's administration and Iran provides further evidence that world affairs have become unintelligible. But take a step back and you will see that all of today's major conflicts are of a piece, and that despite the apparent entropy, a powerful logic of adaptation…

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Fix pension injustice

Labour Minister Julapun Amornvivat's recent remarks signalling his willingness to move ahead with the Career-Average Revalued Earnings (CARE) pension formula are commendable. If officially adopted, the CARE policy would allow the government to correct one of the Social Security Fund's (SSF) most persistent injustices.

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The real lure of government service

Ever wonder why so many Thais, particularly those in rural areas, want their children to pursue a career in government service -- be it as an army or police officer, a civil servant in a state agency, or even in a local administrative organisation -- despite the modest salaries compared…

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Hipkins echoes Reagan: ‘Are you better off than three years ago?’

Labour’s leader borrows from a neoliberal boogeyman as he attacks the malaise caused by the coalition Government

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The Guardian view on US military justice in Britain: a disturbing assault case should raise the alarm

Editorial: The court martial system for personnel on overseas airbases serves US interests – but what about those of their host nations?

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The Guardian view on universities: public confidence in degrees is wavering – ministers should shore it up

Editorial: Unfair changes to student loans and concerns about job prospects must be weighed against the life-changing potential of education

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AI claims to have the answers to life’s big questions. But sometimes not knowing brings us closer to the truth

ChatGPT relieves me of my discomfort, but in doing so it robs me of contemplation, of the holy ground between question and answer

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