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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Maanvi Singh |Matthew Pearce |Joel Cox |Homa Khaleeli
Kilmar Ábrego García was 16 when he came to the US, after his family were targeted by criminal gangs in his home of El Salvador. He joined his brother in Maryland and started a new life. In 2019, he was arrested by immigration officials and accused of being a gang member, but his lawyers argued there was no evidence for this, pointed out he had no criminal convictions and insisted he should not be sent back to a country where he was himself at risk from criminal gangs.
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1 week 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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2 weeks 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.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Richard Partington |Homa Khaleeli |Eli Block
Donald Trump is on a mission to Make America Wealthy Again. Speaking outside the White House, he said for too long the country had been ‘looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike’. Now that would come to an end, he said, as he slapped eye-watering tariffs on countries around the world. The Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, Richard Partington, explains why Trump has taken such action and how it could affect the global economy.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Ruth Abrahams |Hannah Moore |Tom Glasser |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin
The release of the hit Netflix drama Adolescence this month has unleashed a wave of panic around teenage boys. Keir Starmer said the UK “may have a problem with boys and young men”, while parents began worried conversations about their children’s online lives. But how true to life is it? Michael Conroy, who has been going into schools to train teachers and professionals about boys’ personal development for years, says he has seen a shift in what he hears about.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Peter Walker |Lucy Hough |Hannah Moore |Joel Cox |Homa Khaleeli
Rachel Reeves had said that her government was all about growth. But as she stood up to give her spring statement it was clear that green shoots could not yet be seen. The UK’s growth forecast for this year had been halved, leaving the chancellor with a problem. It was a new world of global insecurity, she said, but her response was not to raise taxes or break her fiscal rules. Instead, she would make big cuts – including to welfare.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Sami Kent |Ruth Michaelson |Hannah Moore |Lucy Hough |Joel Cox | +1 more
It has been more than two decades since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became Turkey’s president. Over the years, Erdoğan’s regime has become increasingly authoritarian, eroding press freedoms and removing checks to his power. But in the last week mass protests have erupted. Pouring on to the streets of Istanbul, thousands have defied government warnings and a crackdown by riot police to ensure their voices are heard.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Chris McGreal |Tom Glasser |Hannah Moore |Joel Cox |Homa Khaleeli
This month Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who had worked with human rights groups and even the UK government, was detained in New York. His wife, who is eight months pregnant, said her husband was not told why he was being detained and that officers assumed he was on a visa – but actually he has a green card, allowing him to stay in the US and protecting his constitutional rights.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Homa Khaleeli |Helen Pidd |Patrick Butler |Lucy Hough |Hannah Moore |Joel Cox
On Tuesday the welfare secretary, Liz Kendall, set out her plans to save £5bn from the government’s welfare bill. The current situation is unsustainable, the government says. With the numbers of people claiming disability benefits soaring, it was time for a fairer system, she said. For many disabled people, who have felt the effects of successive governments’ attempts to reform the welfare system, it was a stressful moment.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Liz Pelly |Ruth Abrahams |Homa Khaleeli
Liz Pelly, the author of Mood Machine: the Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, tells Hannah Moore how the way we listen to music has changed over the last decade. Spotify playlists don’t just deliver your favourite genres, they cater for every mood you might be experiencing, whether you are after a “sleepy weepy mix” or “serotonin” playlist.
