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We published explosive stories about the president of El Salvador. Now we can’t go home
We published explosive stories about the president of El Salvador. Now we can’t go home

Days before we ran interviews with gang leaders describing their alleged ties to Nayib Bukele’s government, we left the country to avoid arrest. We f…

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‘We were forced to burn bodies’: will survivors of the Tadamon massacres see justice?
‘We were forced to burn bodies’: will survivors of the Tadamon massacres see justice?

During the conflict, the Damascus suburb became a killing field. But some of Assad’s henchmen are still around – and even working with the new govern…

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From the archive: The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis
From the archive: The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, …

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‘The English person with a Chinese stomach’: how Fuchsia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero
‘The English person with a Chinese stomach’: how Fuchsia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero

The author has been explaining Sichuan cuisine to westerners for decades. But ‘Fu Xia’, as she’s known, has had a profound effect on food lovers in C…

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The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’

Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals By Sonia F…

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From the archive: Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion
From the archive: Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, …

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Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation
Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation

Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only…

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‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service
‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service

After I was paralysed in a climbing accident, I discovered how inconsiderate, illogical and incompetent many wheelchair providers can be By Paul Saga…

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From the archive: The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands
From the archive: The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, …

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Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’
Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’

The leftist party exploded out of Spain’s anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spain’s entrenched two-party system. I was instantly captivated…

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