Zuckerberg says the science isn’t settled. But the harms of short-form video on the brain are starting to show | Caty Enders
The Guardianby Caty Enders·14 Sept 2026
A few years ago, when I’d just started graduate work, I was waiting with a grandmother finishing a questionnaire I’d handed her about her 19-year-old granddaughter who was in the testing room next...
‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon
The Guardianby Ruairí Casey, Lisa Mirella Corti, Maria Cristina Fraddosio and Abby Young-Powell. Photographs by Sara Aliaga Ticona·14 Sept 2026
In the village plazas of Pando, a remote northern Amazonian region of Bolivia, the main talk is no longer just about the next harvest.
Your dream university bedroom: how to get that Insta glow-up
The Guardianby Chloe Mac Donnell·14 Sept 2026
Uni means many hours cramming in the library and equally as many partying, but there is also a surprising amount of downtime – so a bedroom that is enticing to hang out in is key.
Disaster insurance, datacenters, right to repair: meet the midterm candidates running on green policies
The Guardianby Dharna Noor·14 Sept 2026
When Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a law erasing the words “climate change” from state statutes in May 2024 – colloquially known as the “don’t say climate change” law – Democrats were...
Islamophobia is rising – and Britain’s politicians have been dangerously complacent in tackling it | Arun Kundnani
The Guardianby Arun Kundnani·14 Sept 2026
Five years ago, many Muslims wondered if the prejudices they faced were set to fade away. The “war on terror” was dwindling in prominence, and new enemies such as Russia seemed to be displacing...
She’s Donald Trump’s least-favorite Fox News host. But Jessica Tarlov remains undeterred
The Guardianby Jeremy Barr in Washington·14 Sept 2026
Jessica Tarlov is the left-leaning Fox News host that some of the network’s most conservative viewers, including Donald Trump, love to hate.
The Route to Cappyness review – capybara boosterism is an ode to the internet’s favourite rodent
The Guardianby Leslie Felperin·14 Sept 2026
One of Midlands-based film-maker Sharon Walia’s previous works was The Keepers of the Pigs, proudly described on her production company’s website as “the first ever documentary about guinea pigs”.
A little rudeness can save you from being scammed? Count me in | Polly Hudson
The Guardianby Polly Hudson·14 Sept 2026
I knew I wanted to marry my husband when I overheard him on the phone to a cold caller. Having recently reached a new stage in maturity, I’d rearranged the list of qualities I was looking for in a...
The pet I’ll never forget: Polly, the golden retriever who saved my husband’s life
The Guardianby Hannah Cooke, as told to Sinéad Campbell·14 Sept 2026
My husband, Adam, and I had always planned to have a big family and that journey began when we got our dog, Polly, five years ago.
The situation in Iran is dangerously escalating – but whatever you do, don’t call it a war | Arwa Mahdawi
The Guardianby Arwa Mahdawi·14 Sept 2026
“I will not send you to fight and die in stupid foreign wars that never end,” Donald Trump promised a crowd in Pennsylvania in 2024.
Royal Ballet: The McRae/Vassilev Project review – an encounter between two masterful ROH performers
The Guardianby Sanjoy Roy·14 Sept 2026
It’s an evening of two halves and many, many parts, some that dovetail snugly, others more clunkily bolted together.
‘I never pass up a rewatch’: why Valley Girl is my feelgood movie
The Guardianby Annie Zaleski·14 Sept 2026
As a teenager growing up in the 1990s, I was deeply obsessed with all things 1980s pop culture. Chalk it up to nostalgia for my Care Bears-filled childhood – or a stubborn adolescent desire to...
Goody Goody review – intriguing natural childbirth horror lurches into demonic occult blowout
The Guardianby Phil Hoad·14 Sept 2026
Conception, pregnancy and childbirth are defining human experiences, and so remain perennial themes for horror, from Rosemary’s Baby to the Alien franchise to Prevenge.
Farewell to Eden by Sebastian Faulks review – conflict and compromise, from a veteran of the genre
The Guardianby Michael Donkor·14 Sept 2026
Sebastian Faulks’s latest book focuses on the most irreconcilable geopolitical struggle of our age, the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Freedom-loving Britain was at the heart of the 18th century slave trade – and this register proves it | William Pettigrew
The Guardianby William Pettigrew·14 Sept 2026
Two obstacles have prevented us from appreciating the significance of the slave trade in British history.
Can you solve it? Do you have the brain of an engineer?
The Guardianby Alex Bellos·14 Sept 2026
Today’s puzzles test your engineering smarts. The cranberries In a cranberry sorting facility, thousands of cranberries are dropped every minute onto a board.
A spoonful of sugar: how South Africa’s weigh-and-pay shops are tackling ‘poverty tax’ head on
The Guardianby Julie Bourdin·14 Sept 2026
Every morning, on her way to the laundry shop she runs in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township, Tsholofelo Mphela stops at a bright yellow shipping container to buy a few spoonfuls of sugar.
A great time with Uncle Junior from the Sopranos: best podcasts of the week
The Guardianby Hannah J Davies and Hollie Richardson·14 Sept 2026
Dominic & Junior The Sopranos star Dominic Chianese (95) and his son Dominic Chianese Jr (62) helm this new series – a cosy father-son catchup, and all the better for it.
Lenore review – incel’s obsession with online influencer turns into anatomy of dislocated digital-age mindset
The Guardianby Phil Hoad·14 Sept 2026
If the parasocial phenomenon is a kind of hell, then Max Wren, protagonist of this Australian digital-age psychodrama, resides in the ninth circle.
End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here
The Guardianby Daniel Trilling·14 Sept 2026
The more power the radical rightwing nationalists of our age accrue, the greater the risk that their destructive brand of politics becomes normalised.
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