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  • Alex Jones, with a beard and wearing a suit jacket and shirt unbuttoned by a few buttons, holds up his hands as he speaks in front of microphones

    Why the Trump attack has spawned myriad conspiracies theories – from left and right alike

    Colin Dickey
    When we can’t make sense of a dramatic event, fake news pedlars rush to social media to fill the information gap, says writer Colin Dickey
  • Sidney Blumenthal

    To his supporters, Trump is a martyred messiah, resurrected after crucifixion

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • Robert Reich

    We need to do all we can to lower the anger pervading American politics

    Robert Reich
  • Owen Jones

    The American republic is crumbling before us – and Democrats must share the blame

    Owen Jones
  • Handful of psychedelic pills

    Psychedelic drugs have great therapeutic benefit – if understood on their own terms

    Ross Ellenhorn and Dimitri Mugianis
  • FILE - An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 31, 2022. A month after Trump was charged with mishandling classified documents, the judge presiding over the case is set to take on a more visible role as she weighs competing requests on a trial date and hears arguments this week on a key area of law. A pretrial conference Tuesday to discuss procedures for handling classified information will represent the first courtroom arguments in the case before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon since Trump was indicted five weeks ago. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

    Aileen Cannon has taken a sledgehammer to the rule of law

    Laurence H Tribe and Dennis Aftergut

  • I’m from Appalachia. JD Vance doesn’t represent us – he only represents himself

    Neema Avashia

  • ‘Turning down the temperature’ shouldn’t mean silencing all criticism of Trump

    Margaret Sullivan

  • Unfortunately, gun violence – against Trump or anyone else – is all too American

    Rebecca Solnit

  • Trump is an authoritarian who must not win. Saying that is not inciting violence

    Jan-Werner Müller

  • Is there anything predictable about presidential politics?

  • Blue Maga: we need to talk about the cult-like turn of the Democratic party

    Mehdi Hasan

  • Did Donald Trump just win the election?

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • The Guardian view on Trump’s shooting: America’s future must be set by voters, not the gun

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World view

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    A few days of sunshine won’t fool me – we’re in the UK’s worst summer ever

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Rebecca Rideal

    A New York accent in ancient Rome? So what, it’s no less accurate than RP

    Rebecca Rideal
  • Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza

    Paul Kagame banned opponents like me from Rwanda’s election. No wonder he cruised to victory

    Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza

  • The old European order is fraying. We will soon find out whether Keir Starmer can help hold it together

    Timothy Garton Ash

  • CFMEU corruption claims are bad news for a labour movement already in a battle for survival

    Anthony Forsyth

  • With this king’s speech, Starmer has staked everything on the long game. But politics has a habit of moving fast

    Martin Kettle

  • Australian workers’ living standards have been destroyed – and there is little good news ahead

    Greg Jericho

  • Ursula von der Leyen has lost Europe’s trust. She doesn’t deserve a second term

    Alberto Alemanno

  • Putin, Xi and Trump would love to see Ursula von der Leyen go. That’s why the EU must keep her on

    Paul Taylor

  • I may be in my 90s, but I’m not sure I want Hollywood to ‘de-age’ me like Tom Hanks

    Sheila Hancock

  • After Vaughan Gething’s ignominious end, Labour faces the unthinkable: losing the next election in Wales

    Richard Wyn Jones

Editorials

  • Joe Biden waves as he turns away from a podium with US flags in the background.

    The Observer view on Joe Biden: he must step aside to stop Donald Trump

  • Joe Biden at an independence day celebration, Washington, 4 July

    The Guardian view on Joe Biden’s re-election bid: Democrats can’t go on like this

    • Masoud Pezeshkian greets his supporters in Tehran a day after the presidential election.

      The Guardian view on Iran’s moderate president: modest hopes must be acted upon

    • Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event on 15 June 2024 in Detroit.

      The Guardian view on Trump and presidential immunity: the return of the king

    • Donald Trump (L) looks at US president Joe Biden during the CNN presidential debate at the CNN Studios on 27 June 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.

      The Guardian view on Joe Biden: Democrats must seize the wheel, not drift to disaster

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