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Arwa MahdawiThe Guardian |
Say what you like about the Germans, you can always count on them to find just the right word for anything. Take “ weltschmerz ”, for example,...
Remember Kamala Harris? Just a few years ago the first female vice-president of the US was surrounded by fanfare, splashed on the cover of Vogue and...
In recent years, Donald Trump has sold NFTs, sneakers, and bibles. Now the perennial marketer is busy selling a new and improved version of himself to...
My wife and I tick a lot of “minority” boxes: we’re a same-sex Jewish-Palestinian couple with an ethnically ambiguous child. But you know what...
She is a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in Valentino. One of the few things anyone can say with certainty about Melania Trump is that the former...
Let’s check in on the platform formerly known as Twitter shall we? Let’s have a gander at how it’s doing since Elon Musk, the world’s...
My mum, who lives in England, is coming to visit me in Philadelphia soon and I have given her strict instructions on what to bring from the...
Sit your old bones down, because I’ve got bad news: you probably look older than you think you do. Don’t shoot the messenger – blame science. A...
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and, of course, Donald John Trump. The former US president, as we all know, and as he has...
One of my favourite things to do in my middle age is lie on the sofa eating crisps while Googling low-effort ways to optimise my life. Thanks to...
“The depth of the horror surpasses our ability to describe it,” James Elder, a spokesperson with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef),...
Did you miss out on getting rich quick via bitcoin? Don’t worry: TikTok’s legions of personal finance influencers have you covered with a cunning...
‘Nobody tells you this!” For the first year of my now almost-three-year-old’s life, that was my catchphrase. I would say it nonstop. Nobody...
Tick tock, tick tock … that’s the sound of time running out for Gen Z’s favourite app. On Wednesday the House of Representatives overwhelmingly...
I want to state the following as clearly and unequivocally as possible: Israel, with the help of the US, is deliberating starving the population of...
Did you know that child marriage is still legal in much of the US? About 300,000 children and teenagers were legally married in the US between 2000...
Big news in the weight-loss world this week: Oprah Winfrey is exiting WeightWatchers. The talkshow host has been the public face of the company for...
Here we go again, eh? For a short but wonderful period, it looked like Donald Trump’s political career was over. An indicted former president...
What’s your plan for the apocalypse? I’ll tell you what mine is: death. I am not really built for battle – I need five cups of coffee just to...
Friends, Romans, frozen extrauterine children, lend me your ears. Except for the extrauterine children, that is – they obviously don’t have ears....
I hope you’re not squeamish, because we are about to journey into the murky depths of the rightwing mind where brain worms abound. First up is the...
If you ever worry that technology might be getting a little too intelligent and robots are poised to take over the world, I have a quick and easy way...
Does the fact that over 11,500 children have been slaughtered in the past four months in Gaza bother you at all? Are you in any way disturbed that...
Have you ever dreamed up a completely deranged business idea but lacked the cash to execute it? Peter Thiel, the secretive tech billionaire who...
John Fetterman is a workwear icon. The Democratic senator from Pennsylvania has made a national name for himself by wearing baggy basketball shorts...
Sexually explicit photographs of Taylor Swift are all over the internet. Except they are not actually pictures of Swift: they are deepfakes created...
You’d better be careful out there. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but planes are currently disintegrating in mid-air because of diversity....
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a computer must be in want of an AI girlfriend. Certainly a lot of...
Sick and tired of having to work for a living? ChatGPT feels the same, apparently. Over the last month or so, there’s been an uptick in people...
For about 18 months there was incredibly disruptive construction going on next door to me. It drove me mad. Like verging-on-a-nervous-breakdown mad. I...
2023 was the hottest year on record. And it wasn’t just a year of extreme weather – the political climate also became more heated, with the...
Donald Trump is ending 2023 on quite the low. On Tuesday a Colorado supreme court ruling barred the former president from the state’s presidential...
George Anthony Devolder Santos was born in 1988 with a serious congenital condition which means he is incapable of feeling shame or embarrassment....
Saudi Arabia scored a major PR victory earlier this year when it became the only bidder for the 2034 men’s World Cup, all but guaranteeing it will...
A moment of silence, please, for 20-year-old Lanah Burkhardt, who has suffered through a harrowing ordeal that should chill us all to the very core....
Look, I’ll be the first to admit that I am not a billionaire, nor am I the CEO of multiple companies. Nevertheless, I think I’ve got a good grasp...
I met my wife the old-fashioned way: on a dating app. When our now-toddler is older we’ll tell her this story and she’ll look at us like we’re...
“We’re the United States of America, for God’s sake,” Joe Biden scoffed to 60 Minutes last month after he was asked if the US was capable of...
I do not want to ever hear western democracies lecture the rest of the world on human rights ever again. As I write this more than 10,000 Palestinians...
For a while it was a secret that only the A-listers were in on. Now, however, Ozempic – the diabetes drug that is being used off-label as an...
This time last year Linda Yaccarino was flying high. She had a prestigious job spearheading ad sales at NBCUniversal and a reputation as one of the...
S ometimes it takes a random TikToker to make you realise you don’t know your wife quite as well as you thought. In my case, the revelation came via...
G al Gadot must be giddy with relief. For the past few years, the Wonder Woman actor has held the No 1 spot in the category of most cringeworthy and...
Have you ever come across a scientific study and immediately thought to yourself: why? What was the point of this work exactly? Why were resources and...
T he year is 2223. You’re back home after a long day at work (work still exists in the future, I’m afraid) and flick on your virtual reality...
This time last week I wouldn’t have been able to pick pop star Joe Jonas out of a police line-up. If you’d asked me what I’d thought about him...
O h, how the mighty have fallen. This time last time year Tucker Carlson had a prime time spot on Fox News where his hate-heavy, fact-light sputtering...