The media loves to manufacture outrage about what students get up to – and to discipline those who dare challenge conservatives, says Jason Okundaye, a Guardian assistant newsletter editor

Mayors and Citizens Meet Authoritarian Threats with Nonviolent Action

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When she died, the writer left behind a cache of notebooks and manuscripts. Her biographer reveals what they tell us about her unlikely rise to literary stardom

The South Shore building failed two more in a long line of flunked city inspections following the September raid, which a judge suggested Friday may have drawn the feds after local police “refused” to...

Tehran terminates 2015 deal under which sanctions were lifted in return for curbs on country’s nuclear programme An international deal with Iran designed to keep the world safe from the spread of atomic weapons has officially ended, with Tehran announcing the termination of the decade-old agreement. Iran said on Saturday that it was no longer bound by the 2015 agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), under which international sanctions were lifted in exchange for limitations on Tehran’s nuclear programme. Continue reading...

Bill Kristol and General Mark Hertling discuss the sudden early retirement of Admiral Alvin Holsey raising concerns about U.S.

Meta said in a statement that the group “was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm.”

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The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.

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A fleeting image in a stunning Hebridean landscape – and no time to change out of pyjamas

A federal judge ruled Friday to deny the Trump administration’s request to end a policy in place for nearly three decades that is meant to protect immigrant children in federal custody.

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Trump is delivering the authoritarian government his party once warned about.

While American workers battle burnout and ‘infinite workdays’, the men at the top are living the endless vacation dream, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Head of Runnymede Trust warns toxic rhetoric could lead to rise of vigilante groups that ‘just breed more violence’ The vitriol faced by Scouts and charity rowers mistaken for migrants was not an “innocent mistake”, a race equality campaigner has said, as she warned that toxic rhetoric could lead to more violence and vigilantism. A wave of anti-migrant protests outside asylum hotels in recent weeks has been followed by growing reports of vigilantism, with people facing abuse after being mistaken for migrants. Continue reading...

More than 200 refugee groups, charities and unions sign letter calling for action after weeks of protests outside asylum hotels * UK politics live – latest updates More than 200 refugee organisations, charities and trade unions have signed an open letter calling on Britain’s political leaders to end “pernicious and insidious currents” of racism and hatred that underpin a slew of anti-migrant protests. The letter, coordinated by the campaign coalition Together With Refugees, has been signed by organisations including Amnesty International UK, City of Sanctuary UK, Care for Calais, Doctors of the World, the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Freedom from Torture, Islamic Relief, Oxfam, the Public and Commercial Services Union, Refugee Action and Safe Passage. Continue reading...