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Bleary-eyed in pyjamas in a new film, Jacinda Ardern’s pleas for compassion are hard to ignore. But in real crises, the fallibility of politicians can be terrifying, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Taking the easy but misleading route of blaming migrants for economic insecurity only serves to stoke the already smouldering fires of racism

Following criticism, the president accused Ukraine of ingratitude but also added the plan was ‘not my final offer’. Which parts of it will survive?, says Rajan Menon of the City College of New York

You wake up to messages, you go to sleep to messages, you duck into a meeting and come back to 64 unread notes about sunscreen

After decades of terrorizing civilians in the name of fighting terror, the White House is trying to do it with even less oversight

Stereotypes that centre men’s worth in their work are strangling sensible debate, and letting down women too, says author Finn Mackay

At the beginning of this year, I saw something in the jobs market I’d never seen before in my 30-plus years in the recruitment business. The economy was growing, yet jobs vacancies were shrinking. This is not normal. Usually when the economy is growing, this goes hand in hand with…

In his recent interview to the Hindustan Times, Justice Surya Kant, who takes oath today as the 53rd Chief Justice of India, talked about an obvious but daunting priority for his nearly 15-month tenure. He identified reducing the Supreme Court’s huge pile-up of backlog cases as his top concern before…

To say our health and care services would cease to function without migrant colleagues is no exaggeration, says the head of the Royal College of Nursing