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There are 1,000 grotesque memes of JD Vance – and they’re all more likable than the real thing | Marina Hyde

Angry, rude and addicted to web troll-ery, the vice-president has the Make America Awful Again portfolio. Seems a perfect fit

You may well be aware that Backpfeifengesicht is the German word for a fac…

Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state | Jonathan Freedland

The pattern is inescapable – with just one caveat: organised crime bosses occasionally display more honour

Behold Donald Corleone, the US president who behaves like a mafia boss – but without the prin…

Trump is concentrating power. A key faction of judges supports the idea | Jan-Werner Müller

The ‘unitary executive’ theory – backed by some conservative lawyers – is largely bogus. But it could wreak havoc on democracy

While Democrats are dithering and debating with consultants about which a…

No, ‘playing dead’ is the last thing Democrats should be doing | Megan Romer

Party insiders are trying to make the case for doing nothing against Trump. That’s a colossal mistake

In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, Democratic super-consultant James Carville boldly called for “th…

Trump’s attacks on South Africa are a punishment for independence | Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore

The US president’s cuts to health funding could lead to half a million deaths. They’re part of a strategy to condemn and isolate the country

On 7 February, less than three weeks after taking office, D…

The Guardian view on Trump and media: attention is power. Can Democrats grab it? | Editorial

The presidency is no longer just a ‘bully pulpit’. It’s become part of the disinformation machine

Donald Trump won the White House not with money, though he spent plenty of it, but by dominating the c…

‘I ate acid for two months straight. It was the best time of my life’: Americana anarcho-punk Sunny War on booze, drugs and the KKK

She’s the finger-picking blueswoman whose life was changed by the punk band Crass – and went viral for busking while homeless. She talks about ghosts, her ‘smelly’ childhood and fighting the far righ…

Anora is nothing new – Hollywood has always been obsessed with sex workers

Mikey Madison is the latest in a line of actors dating back to Janet Gaynor to win Oscars depicting the sex trade. Why this is, and whether it lessens the stigma of such work, is an open question

Anor…

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