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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Rutger Bregman |Alex Atack |Tom Glasser |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin
“Moral ambition is the desire to stand on the right side of history before it is fashionable, to basically devote your career, your life, to some of the most pressing issues that we face as a species.”Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Moral Ambition, believes that too many of us are in what he calls “bullshit jobs”. “What I see is an enormous waste of talent,” he tells Hannah Moore.
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Philip Oltermann |Courtney Yusuf |Elizabeth Cassin
Frederick Augustus Voigt was the Manchester Guardian’s Berlin correspondent between 1920 and 1932. In this episode, two fellow former Berlin correspondents, Helen Pidd and Philip Oltermann, discuss Voigt’s incredible reporting on the rise of Nazi Germany. “I think he saw that it was important not to give the Nazis the ‘both sides’ treatment,” Philip says.
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan |Alex Atack |Elizabeth Cassin
On Monday, Israeli officials announced they were planning a new military offensive in Gaza, with aims of “conquering” the land and establishing a “sustained presence” there. “The offensive is called Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” Bethan McKernan, the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, tells Lucy Hough. “It’s designed to make sure that there is an indefinite Israeli presence in the strip. That implies that there is no day after the war now.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Shaun Walker |Hannah Moore |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin
Shaun Walker is the Guardian’s central and eastern Europe correspondent and author of The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West. He tells Helen Pidd about the history of Russia’s ‘Illegals’ programme, and how Russian intelligence operates in western countries today. “It’s become much harder for Russia to send its operatives abroad,” Shaun tells Helen.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Mehdi Hasan |Alex Atack |Eleanor Biggs |Joel Cox |Elizabeth Cassin | +1 more
“So many things have shocked me about the past 100 days,” says the Guardian US columnist and author of Win Every Argument, Mehdi Hasan. “Even for me, even the person who was saying it’s going to be so bad, it’s much worse than even I thought.”What’s been shocking to Hasan about Donald Trump’s second term so far is not the policies – they were laid out on the campaign trail – but the lack of resistance.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Elizabeth Cassin |Helen Pidd |John Harris |Eleanor Biggs
John Harris speaks to the Today in Focus podcast about how music helped him connect with his autistic son, James. He tells Helen Pidd what he’s learned about the way some autistic people experience music, and how songs opened up the world for James. Plus, they discuss the challenges and stereotypes autistic people still face.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Courtney Yusuf |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin |Ta-Nehisi Coates
“This is a cultural president. Make no mistake about it.”For Ta-Nehisi Coates, the award-winning writer and journalist, the US president, Donald Trump, and his allies clearly understand the power of story-telling in politics. Coates has recently written a new book, The Message, and he tells Michael Safi that the stories told in TV, films, literature and beyond are not a distraction from politics today but are actively shaping it.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Bethan Mckernan |Tom Glasser |Elizabeth Cassin |Courtney Yusuf
Israeli forces shot dead 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers on 23 March and buried them in a mass grave in the Tel al-Sultan district of Rafah. The Israeli military claimed their vehicles had been “advancing suspiciously” and without headlights or flashing emergency lights. When the UN and Palestinian Red Crescent exhumed the bodies, however, they found a phone that belonged to Rifat Radwan, one of the paramedics killed. He had recorded the last minutes of his life.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Jessica Murray |Alex Atack |Priya Bharadia |Joel Cox |Elizabeth Cassin
“It’s been absolutely unbelievable,” William Timms, a pest controller, tells Hannah Moore. “Since March, calls have gone up 50%. Usually, I’m dealing with about three or four rodent jobs a day this time of year. And then I’ve got my insect jobs on top. “But I’ve had to put my insect jobs on the back burner, because I’m just being inundated with rat calls. I’m doing about nine or 10 a day at the moment.”Birmingham’s rubbish collectors have been on an all-out strike since early March.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Adam Gabbatt |Lucy Hough |Rudi Zygadlo |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin
“Border Patrol always had the right to grill people trying to enter the US, right,” Guardian US reporter Adam Gabbatt tells Michael Safi. “But from what we can tell now, Border Patrol agents are now much more likely to basically get into people’s business, so to search people’s devices, particularly mobile phones, and there seems to have been a real spike in the number of people being questioned and now detained.
