The Guardian Weekly - January 14, 2022
The Guardian Weekly - January 14, 2022
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January 14, 2022
America divided: BEHIND THE LINES
With the perception of reality between Democrats and Republicans so distorted, could civil war really happen? Some experts doubt an armed conflict could arise – but others foresee a Northern Ireland-style insurgency …
6 mins
The Trump menace is darker than ever – and snapping at Biden's heels
The problem with coverage of this month’s anniversary of the events of 6 January 2021 is that too much of it was written in the past tense. True, the attempted insurrection when a violent mob stormed Capitol Hill to try to overturn a democratic election was a year ago, but the danger it poses is clear and present – and looms over the future. For the grim truth is that, while Donald Trump is the last US president, he may also be the next. What’s more, the menace of Trumpism is darker than ever.
4 mins
Ukraine talks Can history help find a path to rapprochement with Putin?
So high have the stakes been set by Russia over the future security architecture of Europe, so imminent is the threat of war in Ukraine, that the three meetings due between Russia and the west this week have drawn comparison with great west-Russia exchanges of the past : Yalta in 1945, Paris in 1960 – over Berlin – and Reykjavík in 1986.
3 mins
Djokovic furore hides trail of unanswered questions
The tennis star was released from detention, having gained a new fanbase of anti-vaxxers and far-right figures
4 mins
Living with Covid: Planning beyond virus does not mean dropping all precaution
Reports in the UK last Sunday that free lateral flow tests could be axed within weeks under a strategy of living with Covid were met with a swift backlash. The British government promptly denied the suggestion that people would soon have to pay for the tests.
2 mins
The mystery of Austria's silence over dual citizens held in Iran
Six years ago on New Year’s Day, an Iranian-Austrian IT businessman said goodbye to his wife and three children and boarded a flight from Vienna to Tehran via Istanbul. Kamran Ghaderi had been due to return five or six days later, but he was arrested and has spent six years in Evin prison in Tehran.
4 mins
‘An affront to justice ' The festering legacy of Guantánamo Bay
‘A huge political albatross’ About 30% of former Guantánamo detainees who were resettled in third countries have not been granted legal status . Of the hundreds released , about 150 were sent to third countries in bilateral agreements brokered by the US, because their home countries were considered dangerous to return to. Many remain in legal limbo and analysis indicates that about 45 men have not been given residency documents upon resettlement. Noa Yachot
3 mins
A natural film star who quietly pioneered a revolution Sidney Poitier
For postwar America, Sidney Poitier became something like the Black Cary Grant: a strikingly handsome and well-spoken Bahamian-American actor. He was a natural film star who projected passion, yet tempered by a kind of refinement and restraint that white moviegoers found reassuring.
3 mins
Macron – and the west – are now prey to France's toxic populism
France is both beautiful and brutally bleak. It is a country studded with towns and rural vistas that take your breath away, but pockmarked with districts of soulless, desolate concrete, especially in the suburbs of its cities, the banlieues. It’s as though French planners and architects, in their embrace of modernity, lost touch with what it means to be human. It has been an important trigger for a toxic brew of Islamophobia and wider cultural despair.
4 mins
Inequality is driving protests against an authoritarian system
Almaty, the commercial capital of Kazakhstan , is the kind of mirage that oil-rich nations so often produce. It has all the trappings of comfort and consumer excess: swanky shopping malls, luxury car dealerships, high-end hotels. This is the image of prosperity that the country’s rulers enjoy projecting. For decades, Kazakhs have been encouraged to take out expensive loans to buy flats, cars and even holidays they can barely afford.
3 mins
The Guardian Weekly Newspaper Description:
Publisher: Guardian News & Media
Category: Newspaper
Language: English
Frequency: Weekly
The Guardian Weekly is an international English-language news magazine based in London, UK. It is one of the world's oldest international news publications and has readers in more than 170 countries.
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