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Margaret Sullivan

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Courts keep ruling against Trump. But they can’t save our democracy singlehandedly

Courts keep ruling against Trump. But they can’t save our democracy singlehandedly

In another one of those strange and unprecedented moments of the Trump years, the president of the United States showed up at the supreme court the...

03.04.2026 20

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Trump now calls war reporting ‘treason’. His attacks on the press are escalating fast

There’s nothing completely new in Donald Trump’s latest attacks on reporters. But they’re more extreme now and ever more indicative of what he...

18.03.2026 10

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AI-generated Iran images are widespread. How do we know what to believe?

The videos look authentic – and they are spreading like wildfire on social media. One, for example, shows Iranian missiles exploding upon the...

13.03.2026 10

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From scripts to sermons: is AI going to be writing everything soon?

No one wants a soulless sermon – that defeats the purpose – and Pope Leo XIV has taken steps to ensure that Roman Catholic priests don’t deliver...

10.03.2026 20

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Trump just got much closer to bringing CNN to heel

For many years, Donald Trump has trashed CNN and has taught his loyal followers to do the same. During the 2016 presidential campaign, angry chants of...

28.02.2026 10

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CBS News is convulsing as Larry Ellison tries to please Trump

Anderson Cooper decides to walk away from broadcast TV’s most prestigious news show, 60 Minutes. Stephen Colbert takes his interview with a rising...

21.02.2026 10

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Why is the Washington Post cratering so spectacularly?

12.02.2026 20

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Is Jeff Bezos going to destroy the Washington Post? It sure looks like it

02.02.2026 90

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Some US media are cheerleading Trump’s Venezuela raid. That’s not their job

08.01.2026 20

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Many schools don’t think students can read full novels anymore. That’s a tragedy

06.01.2026 30

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Ella Baron on AI at Christmas – cartoon

23.12.2025 10

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The Guardian view on animal welfare: a timely reminder that cruelty is wrong

23.12.2025 10

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The Guardian view on the festive season: a suffering world needs messages of peace, hope and goodwill

23.12.2025 10

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Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy

23.12.2025 20

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The tug-of-war over CNN shows how dysfunctional US media has become

20.12.2025 40

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Trump’s crackdown on fact-checker visas will not protect free speech

09.12.2025 20

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Why I am proud to be a part of the Guardian

08.12.2025 10

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The White House’s new media ‘bias’ tracker is a desperate gimmick

02.12.2025 10

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Telling a reporter ‘quiet, piggy’ was shocking – even for Trump

20.11.2025 10

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The BBC’s editing error was serious, but the response is way out of proportion

12.11.2025 10

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It’s clear why Zohran Mamdani has a double-digit lead in the New York mayoral race

03.11.2025 10

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The tragic change a single year has made in America

26.10.2025 10

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Pete Hegseth’s attempt to gag journalism is a resounding failure

15.10.2025 9

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Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News

08.10.2025 10

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The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super-rich

26.09.2025 10

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Yanking Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a new low for free speech in America

19.09.2025 10

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Charlie Kirk’s killing is a tragic marker of the indiscriminate nature of political violence

11.09.2025 10

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Why is much of the media ignoring questions about Trump’s health?

05.09.2025 10

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Unhinged tweets and absurd self-promotion? Two can play at that game

28.08.2025 10

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a ‘country club’ prison is outrageous

20.08.2025 10

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A ‘bias monitor’ for CBS News is a bad idea. Here’s why

09.08.2025 10

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The LA Times’s owner wants to take the struggling paper public. Will it work?

31.07.2025 10

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From 60 Minutes to Colbert, it’s been a dark time for CBS. But there’s a ray of hope

25.07.2025 10

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Trump worked to kill a story about his friendship with Epstein. Now we know why

For days before the Wall Street Journal published its story about Donald Trump’s salacious friendship with Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, the...

19.07.2025 20

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Ben Jennings on the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 terror attacks – cartoon

07.07.2025 20

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The Guardian view on Macron’s state visit: a renewed entente cordiale is good for France, Britain and Europe

07.07.2025 10

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Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid?

07.07.2025 30

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Struggling in politics? Consider a war – the media will help

28.06.2025 10

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Welcome to a new ‘gloomcycle’ of news. Here’s how to stop compulsive scrolling

20.06.2025 10

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Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?

13.06.2025 10

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If Trump cuts funding to NPR and PBS, rural America will pay a devastating price

06.06.2025 20

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Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions

02.06.2025 10

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Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump was far worse

17.05.2025 20

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Trump’s latest Fox News hire looks even worse than Pete Hegseth

10.05.2025 10

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The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone for US media

01.05.2025 10

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For Trump, the message is all. No surprise he’s targeting NPR and PBS

22.04.2025 10

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The AP’s win against Trump shows principles still have power in the US

09.04.2025 10

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The Atlantic handled ‘Signalgate’ with good judgment

27.03.2025 10

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The Observer view on the spring statement: cutting spending is not the only option, chancellor

23.03.2025 10

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Columbia should have said ‘see you in court’, not ‘yes, Mr President’

23.03.2025 10

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