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As the election looms, the Harris campaign juggles joy with gravity

Osita Nwanevu
Ridicule should remain an important part of Harris’s playbook as Trump’s campaign continues to spew execrable lies

The Guardian view on Trump’s attacks on migrants: smirking racism is no less dangerous

The US and all nations must respect the UN resolution against Israeli occupation

Kenneth Roth

If US senators are openly Islamophobic, what hope is there?

Representative Ilhan Omar

Trump and Vance’s Springfield smear is a microcosm of their entire campaign

Sidney Blumenthal

Curriculum restrictions in US public schools hurt teachers and students alike

Stacey Abrams and Randi Weingarten

• Will the historic UN vote for sanctions on Israel change reality for Palestinians?

Omar Barghouti

• Nebraska may change its electoral system at the last second to help Trump win

Stephen Marche

• JD Vance is factually challenged – and morally deficient

Margaret Sullivan

• Amber Thurman was killed by Georgia’s abortion ban. There will be others

Moira Donegan

• Take it from a former player: the NFL is brutal, violent and very tough to walk away from

RK Russell

• With their lies about Haitian immigrants, Trump and Vance have reached a new low

Moustafa Bayoumi

• JD Vance’s obsession with cats is bizarre. He needs to stop spreading fake mews

Arwa Mahdawi

• The American right is inciting a pogrom against Haitian immigrants in Ohio

Moira Donegan

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Working from home is the great social experiment of our age – it’s too soon for the state to wade in

Simon Jenkins

A bored child is not a parenting failure. Teach them to shrug off the learned helplessness of boredom

Myke Bartlett
Like any parent, I am easily victim to the emotional blackmail of a young child at a loose end. But maybe we should be easier on ourselves these school holidays

How to get kids into classical music? As a CBeebies conductor, I can tell you: it’s the wow factor

Kwamé Ryan

• The right calls it the ‘nanny state’ – I call it standing up to rich corporations and protecting people’s health

Devi Sridhar

• A man on a train thought I was a terrorist. I thought he was racist. Learn from how we became friends

Ravi Holy

• After my husband’s death, I papered over my grief with posters and pictures. No more

Kat Lister

• Italy’s migrant pact with Albania makes no sense. So what’s the real reason Starmer is showing interest?

Lea Ypi

• The west’s cautious approach seeks to avoid escalation in Ukraine. It may have the opposite effect

Andriy Zagorodnyuk

• How did telemarketers get my number? I uncover the labyrinthine world of Australia’s data brokers

Priya Dev for the Conversation

• The words of the master Persian poets carry a mystical power – and can create serious transformation

Ali Hammoud

• Labour, beware: Britain’s housing crisis is driving voters towards populism

John Harris

The Observer view on the Middle East crisis: Biden’s failure on Gaza is fuelling wider war

The Guardian view on Israel’s booby-trap war: illegal and unacceptable

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