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Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read
To celebrate the launch of the new Guardian Long Read magazine this week, join the long read editor David Wolf in discussion with regular contributor…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat
Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years of negotiating at Cops – including how Paris 2015 was saved…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet
A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-c…
4 months ago
From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater
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, …
4 months ago
‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump
Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations sin…
4 months ago
The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job
From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore order By T…
4 months, 1 week ago
From the archive: The queen of crime-solving
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, …
4 months, 1 week ago
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical a…
4 months, 1 week ago
‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang
In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were c…
4 months, 1 week ago
From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face
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, …
4 months, 2 weeks ago