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Why are we so horrified by difficult topics, asks Steven Pinker

The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Men want to be active, engaged parents, but many are being torn apart by the competing demands of family and work, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Editorial: Hawks want regime change. Democrats and others are right to warn against illegal and unauthorised use of force

Editorial: This week’s partisan blame game is the wrong response to the collapse of the alleged Chinese spying case. The failure of governance runs deeper

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The collapse of a spying case ahead of the trial is not just an embarrassment for Keir Starmer, it is a reminder that his government must strike a more effective balance in its approach to Beijing – by protecting national security without compromising diplomatic and economic…

‘The Firm’ as a modernising strategy was already falling apart, but with the shocking allegations so fully in the public domain, it has now collapsed, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Watching my daughter’s strong sense of self has forced me to reflect on my own adolescence through the wildly misogynistic early 2000s

But will the powerful men who kept company with Epstein be held to account?

Court has repeatedly expanded states’ leeway to make voting laws that would have previously been deemed discriminatory

Every year, I refused the crates of fruit she tried to palm off on me each autumn. Now I wish I’d taken them, writes Zoe Williams