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The Guardian Weekly
Shaking off inertia, civic opposition to Trump's cuts gathers pace
On a bright winter's day last week, a group of protesters fanned out along a palm-tree-lined thoroughfare in the picturesque city of Palm Desert to demand that their Republican congressman stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk's slash-and-burn effort to reshape the US government.
3 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Chain gang Political theatre seals Musk's Maga hero status
What do you give the man who has everything? A ballroom of conservative activists found out last week when Elon Musk was presented with a chainsaw by Argentina's president, Javier Milei, who has used it as a symbol of his push to impose fiscal discipline.
3 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
A hard knock life
Steven Knight's brutal new illegal boxing drama is set in the underside of Victorian Britain. Its stars take ringside seats to tell us about filming the TV series
4 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Let's not leave the baby-making debate to Musk and Vance
Roses are red, violets are blue.
3 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Semla fever How buns went from spring treat to TikTok hit
The earliest version of the Swedish semla was a 16thcentury plain bread bun served in a soup of warm milk eaten only on Shrove Tuesday in preparation for the 40-day fast of Lent.
3 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Objects of desire The intricate and ingenious ways the myriad stuff that surrounds us-and which we take for granted-gets made
It's some measure of the extent of urbanisation that the bookends to our day may not be birdsong but the sound of a kettle as the water in it reaches boiling point.
3 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Corking idea 1970s home's refurb slashes energy bills
For most homeowners, a request from a passerby to touch the exterior of their property would probably raise their eyebrows.
2 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
THE WASTE LAND
When China stopped receiving the world's refuse, Turkey became Europe's recycling hotspot. S The problem is, most plastics | can't be recycled. And what remains are toxic heaps of trash
10+ min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Here's why I'm not worried yet about this asteroid hitting Earth
Carrie Nugent
3 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Theatre that aims to bring harmony
The arts centre at the Bidi Bidi settlement offers 250,000 refugees the chance to sing, play, dance- and dream of a peaceful future
3 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Merz’s in-tray The pressing problems facing the EU's largest economy
Friedrich Merz, a former banker who has never been a minister, appears likely to be the next chancellor of Germany after his conservative CDU/CSU alliance won the most votes in Sunday’s crucial federal election.
3 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
EVERY STEP YOU TAKE
Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we're all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this just narcissism redesigned for the big tech age?
10+ min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
The activists fighting to defend Black Ecuadorian culture
Painted with the support of the city council in 2017, a mural spanning the entire side of a six-storey building in Guayaquil's financial district went largely unnoticed for more than a year in Ecuador's most populous city -until it triggered outrage.
3 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Minorities at risk Anti-migrant hate and xenophobia flourish in the 'time of cowards'
When I think of German democracy, I think of the Larsen B ice shelf: a vast Antarctic structure that remained stable for 10,000 years until – in just over a month, to the horror of shocked onlookers – it collapsed catastrophically.
3 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Moscow plans for post-war return of west's brands
After three years of war and Western isolation, Russians are starting to hope that the recent flurry of US-Russia diplomacy could offer a path to peace in Ukraine - and restore the sense of normality lost when their leader sent tanks across the Ukrainian border.
2 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
'I fear for what comes next'
The conservative Friedrich Merz looks likely to be the next German chancellor after his CDU/CSU alliance came top in last weekend's election-but voters are already questioning for how much longer another weak coalition can hold off the country's surging far-right
5 min |
February 28, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
The courts are pushing back. What if Trump defies them?
Years before he became US vice-president and advocated defiance of the courts over the Trump administration's blitz through the federal bureaucracy and constitution, JD Vance revealed his contempt for legal constraints.
3 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
'We're afraid' Can the tide be turned on surging gang crime?
The Operation Restoration Christian school sits amid a line of patched-up housing blocks and streetside cookshops in Trench Town.
3 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Land grab Defiance in the face of 'Riviera' plan
One month after the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinians of Gaza have begun improvising a new life amid the wreckage of the old.
2 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
The scandal of the radioactive chapatis
When details about a scientific study in the 1960s-in which Indian women in Britain were given radioactive food without their consent - became public, there was shock and anxiety. But what exactly happened?
10+ min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Soul.survivors
De La Soul's return was shattered by the death of Dave 'Trugoy' Jolicoeur. Now a duo, they discuss grief, Gorillaz and never giving up
5 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Annexation talk gives Canadians a reason to pull together
Alone figure takes to the stage, a giant maple leaf flag rippling on a screen behind him as he gingerly approaches the microphone.
3 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Friend or foe? By meeting with the AfD, Vance clearly revealed US intentions
The Trump administration is making a big bet on Europe's hard right.
2 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
The race to commit an island to memory
Can virtual-reality cameras, 3D models and digital archives prevent Qikiqtaruk's history from slipping away?
5 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
A 32-minute boiled egg? Don't let science ruin the joy of home cooking
I remember making pearls of balsamic vinegar, my first and only foray into what is known as \"molecular gastronomy\", in 2013.
3 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
As US retreats, plan for a joint nuclear shield deserves consideration
The startling contempt for Europe's intensifying security concerns displayed by Donald Trump and his henchmen has brought an old, controversial question back to the fore: should Britain and France pool their nuclear weapons capabilities and create a Europe-wide defensive nuclear shield to deter Vladimir Putin's Russia, if the US reduces or withdraws its support?
3 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Square deal Retailers feel pain of China price war
On a cool Friday morning in an expansive mall in Nairobi, dozens of people thronged outside a retail store covered in banners, balloons and flowers.
2 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Opposition falls silent as junta leader tightens grip on power
Mamady Doumbouya has led the country since a 2021 coup. Some fear he has no intention of relinquishing power
3 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Don't be shy: how to use up the remains of a can of coconut milk
Irarely use a whole tin of coconut milk in one go. What can I do with the leftovers?
2 min |
February 21, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Trump's plan for Gaza leaves Arab nations facing an impossible choice
A rab states are in a bind. King Abdullah of Jordan squirmed in the Oval Office last week, as the press asked him and Donald Trump about the US president's Gaza plan.
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