The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s oil deal: Venezuela pays for his vanity
Editorial: The US president seized a nation’s natural wealth in a modern-day version of gunboat diplomacy to feed his ego – not to lower Americans’ fuel bills
An embattled Donald Trump is increasingly using sports as prop
Leander Schaerlaeckens
European democracies are running out of time to turn away from the abyss
Rafael Behr
Mass polygraphs at the Pentagon show Hegseth’s weakness
Margaret Sullivan
America: the gulf, the lake and now the state – what’s next on Trump’s huge renaming spree?
Marina Hyde
Trump’s approval rating is plummeting – as his fortune grows and grows
Arwa Mahdawi
Democrats need to win. Here’s the message our research says works
Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg
Donald Trump’s midterm strategy? Make it all about him
Robert Reich
OpenAI models went rogue. We urgently need a better Hugging Face investigation
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World view
Horror warnings about Australia’s ‘collapsing’ housing market are absurd – and very much in bad faith
Greg Jericho
If prices were to take a 10% fall from the March 2026 peak, as CBA has suggested, that would still only mean prices were back where they were at the end of 2024
Australia is on a collision course with US big tech. Could it cause Trump to turn on his ‘mate’?
Mark Kenny
Seven of my colleagues were killed in Gaza. There and in Ukraine, aid workers are no longer safe
José Andrés
Farage is clearly struggling – I saw that for myself. But his legacy will be a poison that runs deep
Andy Beckett
‘Courage and contradictions’: what Gloria Steinem meant to feminist writers from around the world
Rebecca Solnit, Rokhaya Diallo, Mona Eltahawy, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Julia Gillard, Jennifer Robinson, Elif Shafak and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
I co-founded an orchestra 18 years ago. Since then, I’ve seen doors close for working-class musicians
Robert Ames
Blanche d’Alpuget wasn’t just Bob Hawke’s wife. She was a fierce intellect who only saw the good in people
Craig Emerson
Russia is raining death on Ukraine’s women and children. Our hands shake, but we keep going for love
Alina Sarnatska
The Orwellian machinery critics are desperate to protect is the algorithms, not laws that seek to reduce harm
Ed Coper
Columnists
Prediction markets have become America’s new national pastime
Dave Schilling
The US attorney general is fretting about a ‘pandemic’ of gender transitions in schools
Arwa Mahdawi
Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions
Austin Sarat
Gloria Steinem personified America’s feminist movement
Moira Donegan
In 2016, Trump pledged to erase the federal debt. It just hit $40tn
Steven Greenhouse
Ben-Gvir posts Palestinians on conveyor belts to detention camps. The world is silent
Arwa Mahdawi
Trump’s ridiculous bullying of Canada is backfiring
Robert Reich
Trump’s threat against an NBC journalist is an attack on reality
Margaret Sullivan
The deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos signals a rupture within Maga
Moira Donegan
Trump’s plan to sell off a part of Yosemite is what oligarchy looks like
Rebecca Solnit
Italy may ban staring at your phone while crossing the street. Why stop there?
Dave Schilling
The rebranding of ‘Lake America’ is Trump’s desperate attempt to distract us
Arwa Mahdawi
Dolly Parton was the polar opposite of our bullying president
