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From the archive: The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis

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Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?

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‘The English person with a Chinese stomach’: how Fuchsia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero

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The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’

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The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

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From the archive: Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion

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Death on the inside: as a prison officer, I saw how the system perpetuates violence

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Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation

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‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service

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Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’

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From the archive: The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands – podcast

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Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation

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Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’ – podcast

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Best of 2025: ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon – podcast

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Best of 2025: ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning – podcast

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Best of 2025: The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job – podcast

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The best of the long read in 2025

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Best of 2025: Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land – podcast

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Best of 2025: The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image – podcast

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‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act

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