A few weeks ago, Michael Safi travelled to north-east Syria, an area controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. Here, suspected foreign fighters for Islamic State – including those from...
“I’d quite like to just try and get a deposit together, to buy a house and stuff.” After Mark* saw an advert for a financial trading website, he signed up...
This weekend’s fractious Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy had much of the world talking. But what do Ukrainians make of the meeting, their president, and a...
Sir Martin – founder of what became the world’s largest advertising company, WPP – is now chairman of the board of S4Capital, which aims at digitally native delivery of services....
In 2004, 29 people were killed by members of the Cinta Larga tribe in Brazil’s Amazon basin. The story shocked the country – but the truth of what happened is...
Our Listener Special – We Answer Your Questions—Possibly Correctly! – YouTube Watch On On Episode 150 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik answer your questions, respond...
With the mothers of Elon’s kids begging for his attention on social media, he makes much of ‘pronatalism’ – but is that just a fancy word for bad parenting? ‘I...
Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra. Read by Mikhail Sen Continue...
After more than a decade of war, and half a century of repressive rule under Bashar al-Assad and his father, Syrians have a new ruler and a new future. Michael...
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, from 2017: Davon Mayer was...
