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Gaza has turned into Biden’s most perplexing moral and foreign policy failure

Mohamad Bazzi
The US president has squandered his leverage over Netanyahu even as the Israeli leader continues to undermine him

Should Democrats stay the course or replace Biden?

Robert Reich

I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth

Rebecca Solnit

Biden’s agonizing debate performance doesn’t change the reality of this election

Sidney Blumenthal

The supreme court abortion ruling hides conservative justices’ partisan agenda

Moira Donegan

Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become

Steven Greenhouse

• The true losers of this presidential debate were the American people

Rebecca Solnit

• Even factchecking Trump’s constant lies probably wouldn’t have rescued Biden

Margaret Sullivan

• Trump v Biden in the first 2024 presidential debate: our panelists’ verdict

Moustafa Bayoumi, Jill Filipovic, Lloyd Green, Arwa Mahdawi and Osita Nwanevu

• This debate was a disastrous opening performance for Biden

Moira Donegan

• Nearly 21,000 children are missing in Gaza. And there’s no end to this nightmare

Arwa Mahdawi

• The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery

Moira Donegan

• The Aipac-funded candidate defeated Jamaal Bowman. But at what cost?

Ben Davis

• I’m worried about Biden’s debate with Trump this week

Robert Reich

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Macron is history, Le Pen is triumphant. What do ‘reasonable’ French voters like me do now?

Pierre Haski

The world is scrambling to understand Kenya’s historic protests – this is what too many are missing

Nanjala Nyabola
A finance bill was the trigger, but the backdrop is government debt and blinkered interventions from western institutions, says Kenyan political analyst Nanjala Nyabola

There is a reason Nigel Farage hails Andrew Tate. And we should worry that young people are listening

Sasha Mistlin

• Self-help was meant to make me feel better. Instead it turned toxic - and borderline dangerous

Emily Goddard

• In France, it’s now only a matter of time before the far right takes power

Paul Taylor

• Where are the Marcus Rashfords of British tennis? My fear is, they’re still not welcome

Chris Marshall

• The tragic parable of Rishi Sunak: driven by success at all costs, then undone by his own myth-making

Nesrine Malik

• If you are spiritual but not religious, how do you want to die?

Jackie Bailey

• The prison and court systems are on the verge of collapse. Why aren’t Labour or the Tories talking about it?

Samira Shackle

• Erdoğan’s plan to cull Turkey’s street dogs will destroy far more than just animals

Alexander Christie-Miller

• Prepare for the toppling of private school politics – and a cultural change within Westminster

John Harris

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The Guardian view on Netanyahu’s leadership: making enemies and clinging to far-right friends

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