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There are moments when you can see the screen jump as history switches to a new reel. 1 have never wanted to be in a newsroom more than the moment [...]

There's been no shortage of discussion about the male appetite--for sex, for power, for whatever men have needed to secure their success--after the fall of Harvey Weinstein and the rise [...]

'Care is such a radical idea,' says Naomi Klein. 'I find it interesting that we struggle with the word. I'm not ready to let I feel like we need to [...]

Here's how you cover an American political convention: you get up inhumanly early to fire off your first emails, chugging down hotel coffee that tastes like burnt leather. Then you [...]

San Francisco is awash with tech money. Yet this city of innovation is also a place where you have to step over the homeless to buy a $20 artisan coffee [...]

There's no drug quite like the confidence of a mediocre white man, and even lifelong users such as Donald Trump have to be careful when mainlining in public. Witness, if [...]

It's a warm December night in South Carolina and we are about to see Donald Trump speak on a ship that goes nowhere. We have been waiting for an hour [...]

Neil Gaiman has been wearing the same outfit since 1987. Occasionally the black T-shirt gets changed or one billowy black coat gets replaced with another billowy black coat but the [...]

I'm in a van with three pirates, and we're pillaging snacks from all the major political parties in Iceland. It's 27 April, election day in Reykjavik, and the months of [...]

I'm sitting in a cafe on Salisbury high street and a frail old man in a big black hat has just told me that he is going to die. 'No [...]

It's just before midnight, in the damp chill of an austerity winter, and a gang of students and schoolkids is standing smoking against the iron railings outside an occupied lecture [...]

WE WERE FEMINISTS ONCE From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl«, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement By Andi Zeisler 285 pp. PublicAffairs. $26.99. Power has a way of inoculating [...]

David Cameron is right. Britain, like much of the developed world, is imploding under a culture of entitlement, a species of socio-economic pestilence that collapses the superstructure of modern life [...]

How do we measure human malice? Sometimes it's all too easy. This summer, British cities are struggling through the aftermath of successive terrorist attacks and hate crimes. The Manchester bombing. [...]

When is a lie not a lie? Recently, the Daily Telegraph reported that university students had demanded that 'philosophers such as Plato and Kant' be 'removed from [the] syllabus because [...]

They say that if you can make a cake, you can make a bomb. Food writer and former Great British Bake Off finalist Ruby Tandoh was never much bothered about [...]

It is finally happening: I am becoming a strong woman. Not in every sense of the word--I'm still a squishy-hearted millennial snowflake marinated in political correctness. But these days I [...]

There's a feeling that's common among everyone I know from the weird, wild, fast-moving days of politics in 2011. It's a feeling of having somehow gone down the wrong trouser [...]

The year is 1994 and the place is a small suburban kitchen in Sussex. I'm nine years old and I'm sitting at the table, slopping Frosties into my mouth and [...]

What does it mean to love your country? Is it the sort of love that means you never have to say you're sorry? The late, great critic AA Gill once [...]

Are men too fragile for politics? As powerful chauvinists everywhere reverse out of public life to spend more time helping the police with their enquiries, we are being asked to [...]

The standard complaint against the cohort now entering its thirties is that we spend our time hiding from the student loans company in our parents' basements and making five-pound artisanal [...]

Climate change denial is not about facts. It is about faith, and faith comes in many forms, including the blackly comic. This month, as the most devastating hurricanes on record [...]

What are we prepared to sacrifice to keep children safe? On Monday 22 May, at the Manchester Arena, 22 people were senselessly slaughtered. Many of them were teenage girls pouring [...]

There's a free speech crisis in America, but it's not the one you're thinking of. On 20 January, a few miles from Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC, more [...]

History and legend are crammed with cautionary tales about mad kings. The stories share a shape: the king has lost control of what wit and reason he possessed. Wild emotion [...]

At exactly 12.03pm on 20 January, the age of liberal equivocation ended for ever. Minutes in to the most thuggishly nationalist inauguration speech outside of a disaster movie, anyone who [...]

The year 2016 will go down in history as a spiteful bastard. Terrorist atrocities, the refugee crisis and the fall of Western democracy would have been enough on their own, [...]

In these troubled times, it's good to know that moderate conservatives, anxious liberals and even your neighbourhood Trotskyist uncle can come together against a common enemy: students. Prissy students, with [...]

The writing was on the wall, for those who knew how to read it. Specifically, it was on the wall of a black church in Mississippi, which was sprayed with [...]

For a man who lies like a rabid dog drools poison, Donald Trump has one topic on which he remains broadly convincing: women. He believes that they should be beautiful, [...]

Whose fault is it if you can't cope with the stress of work? The answer used to be simple--it's yours, and you're probably a shiftless weakling for even asking the [...]

Polyamory, if you believe the newspapers, is the hot new lifestyle option for affectless hipsters with alarming haircuts, or a sex cult, or both. A wave of trend articles and [...]

The suggestion that two transgender women were close to being selected for the British Olympic team was met with outrage earlier this month. LGBT advocates were upset that trans athletes [...]

When writers draft the textbooks on this period of Western history, the events of the past fortnight will likely feature on a page headed 'Factors leading to'. As the greatest [...]

On Friday, I woke up in a country I do not recognise. David Cameron's big gamble--the future of Britain against his personal political ambitions--has backfired so badly that we've blasted [...]

There's a moment in childhood when you lose respect for your parents. Maybe they're imposing punishments for no good reason. Maybe they're just refusing to admit when they've messed up. [...]

'Brexit' is an ugly, embarrassing word for a ugly, embarrassing debate. After months of bad arguments in bad faith from bad actors running campaigns of confusion and fear with both [...]

Susan B Anthony never married. The suffragist, abolitionist and civil rights campaigner foresaw in 1877 that 'in women's transition from the position of subject to sovereign, there must needs be [...]

It was a hectic spring morning at the height of the Ukraine crisis. On the radio, newscasters were calmly reporting on the body count, the possible involvement of other world [...]

It's a miracle. All over the world, conservatives and curtain-twitching bigots have taken up the cause of fighting violence against women. From Donald Trump, vowing to protect white Americans from [...]

By now, it feels as if George R R Martin --the author of Game of Thrones, narrative sadist and miner of all things beautiful and good--has been appointed scriptwriter for [...]

Why are so many robots designed to resemble women? The question is becoming inescapable as more and more AIs, which do not need to have a gender, appear on the [...]

What would you do if somebody gave you a few hundred pounds each month to spend on whatever you wanted? Would you quit your job? Retrain and look for a [...]

I am often asked what I think of 'celebrity feminism'. Specifically, when I talk to young people, I'm asked what I think of various famous women and their followers who [...]

By now, everyone has an opinion on immigration and Islamophobia--but some people's opinions seem to matter more than others'. That is what I discovered on the morning after the terrorist [...]

It has been eight years since the Great Recession, and the current economic crisis has become a permanent state of exception. Early this month, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation released a [...]