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It’s time to abolish ICE | Amy Fischer www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to abolish ICE | Amy Fischer
Amnesty International is calling for an end to the agency, whose record of violating human rights dates back decades
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October 5, 2026 at 12:17 PM
‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington
When the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data
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October 3, 2026 at 8:34 AM
War, power games and impunity. I watched the farce that is the UN general assembly: what a tragedy, what a mess | Nesrine Malik www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
War, power games and impunity. I watched the farce that is the UN general assembly: what a tragedy, what a mess | Nesrine Malik
Ukraine, Iran, Palestine and Sudan: it has so many problems to confront and fails to do so. Seen up close, it is a study in stasis and decline, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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October 1, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter
As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all
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September 23, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Zahlen, bitte! Zeile 404: Kurz vor Ende ein „Hmmm“ im Eliza-Code
„Eliza“, die Chat-Simulation, vermochte mit einfachsten Mitteln viele Gesprächspartner zu beeindrucken. Möglich machten das auch äußerst menschelnde Antworten. heise.de/-11461373
Zahlen, bitte! Zeile 404: Kurz vor Ende ein „Hmmm“ im Eliza-Code
„Eliza“, die Chat-Simulation, vermochte mit einfachsten Mitteln viele Gesprächspartner zu beeindrucken. Möglich machten das auch äußerst menschelnde Antworten.
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September 22, 2026 at 1:51 PM
‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
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September 18, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Verlangsamung der KI-Entwicklung: Trump greift Anthropic-Chef an
Der US-Präsident weist Forderungen nach einer KI-Pause schroff zurück. Das nutze nur China. Die Debatte überlagert den geplanten Trump-Xi-Gipfel Ende September. heise.de/-11453004
Verlangsamung der KI-Entwicklung: Trump greift Anthropic-Chef an
Der US-Präsident weist Forderungen nach einer KI-Pause schroff zurück. Das nutze nur China. Die Debatte überlagert den geplanten Trump-Xi-Gipfel Ende September.
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September 15, 2026 at 7:55 AM
I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner
We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence
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September 14, 2026 at 1:12 PM
‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life – and reconciling with Paul Simon www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life – and reconciling with Paul Simon
He taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 83, the folk-pop legend explains how he came back to singing
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September 4, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Trump’s plan to sell off a part of Yosemite is what oligarchy looks like | Rebecca Solnit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s plan to sell off a part of Yosemite is what oligarchy looks like | Rebecca Solnit
Public lands belong to all of us. No one should plunder those lands for profit
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August 31, 2026 at 1:28 PM
A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week
At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling
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August 25, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Zahlen, bitte! Entdeckt während einer Sonnenfinsternis – das Element Helium
Helium wurde vor 158 Jahren während einer Sonnenfinsternis entdeckt. Während es im Universum sonst sehr häufig vorkommt, ist es auf der Erde ein rares Element. heise.de/-11417123
Zahlen, bitte! Entdeckt während einer Sonnenfinsternis – das Element Helium
Helium wurde vor 158 Jahren während einer Sonnenfinsternis entdeckt. Während es im Universum sonst sehr häufig vorkommt, ist es auf der Erde ein rares Element.
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August 18, 2026 at 2:21 PM
‘They kidnapped a hard-working kid off our streets’: the gardener seized by ICE – and the New York town fighting back www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘They kidnapped a hard-working kid off our streets’: the gardener seized by ICE – and the New York town fighting back
Gerson Turcios was 17 when he fled violence in Honduras to build a new life in the US. Six years later, he was mowing lawns in his home town of Rhinebeck when immigration officers took him. Within hou...
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August 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Jahrelang verboten, jetzt in 4K: Kubricks Wege zum Ruhm im Heimkinotest
Weil Stanley Kubrick das unmenschliche Militärsystem demaskierte, verbannten europäische Länder seinen Antikriegsfilm. Wir testen die 4K-Restauration. heise.de/-11380208
Jahrelang verboten, jetzt in 4K: Kubricks Wege zum Ruhm im Heimkinotest
Weil Stanley Kubrick das unmenschliche Militärsystem demaskierte, verbannten europäische Länder seinen Antikriegsfilm. Wir testen die 4K-Restauration.
heise.de
August 7, 2026 at 7:47 AM
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine
Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools
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July 31, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Arrest of American who has given $1m in aid to Palestine prompts fears of ‘growing repression from Trump’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Arrest of American who has given $1m in aid to Palestine prompts fears of ‘growing repression from Trump’
Extradition request for James ‘Fergie’ Chambers sparks concerns that US government is conflating humanitarian aid with terrorism
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July 31, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson
Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation
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July 26, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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July 22, 2026 at 1:53 PM
‘The door slid open and my jaw dropped’: the astonishing sculptures only ever seen by 20 people www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘The door slid open and my jaw dropped’: the astonishing sculptures only ever seen by 20 people
Ray Exworth spent his life filling Cornish sheds with breathtaking sculptures – but wouldn’t let anyone in to view them. Now, after his death, his secret body of work has been revealed
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July 22, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is dead. How long will ICE be allowed to hide its face? | Jamil Smith www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is dead. How long will ICE be allowed to hide its face? | Jamil Smith
A government that demands instant obedience while concealing its identity cannot expect trust – or escape responsibility for the consequences
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July 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
ICE raided their city, taking parents, spouses and friends. That’s not where it ends www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
ICE raided their city, taking parents, spouses and friends. That’s not where it ends
The vanished/The disappeared/In the shadow of the raids/In the shadow of the raids: ICE took their loved ones – here’s what happened next
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July 8, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Why would we show an optical illusion to a monkey or a sparrow? To learn how they experience time, of course | Ishan Singhal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why would we show an optical illusion to a monkey or a sparrow? To learn how they experience time, of course | Ishan Singhal
Animals may inhabit the same world as us, but new research shows how their perceptions of what is around them differs, says research fellow Ishan Singhal
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July 7, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Trump is a danger to US democracy. But the resistance is working | Kenneth Roth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is a danger to US democracy. But the resistance is working | Kenneth Roth
The president has made dangerous inroads in his push toward autocracy. Yet the prospects for his success are dimming
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July 6, 2026 at 2:12 PM
America is destroying itself. It’s no surprise | Stephen Marche www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America is destroying itself. It’s no surprise | Stephen Marche
Scholars will someday wonder how the richest country in history chose to throw it all away. But the crisis has been there since the beginning
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July 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM