Amnesty International is calling for an end to the agency, whose record of violating human rights dates back decades

When the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data

Ukraine, Iran, Palestine and Sudan: it has so many problems to confront and fails to do so. Seen up close, it is a study in stasis and decline, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Heidenaus Stadtrat will keine neuen Stolpersteine mehr auf Gehwegen zulassen. Die Landeszentralen für politische Bildung nehmen die vorhandenen nun in eine App auf – und wollen auch künftige dort gern...

As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all

„Eliza“, die Chat-Simulation, vermochte mit einfachsten Mitteln viele Gesprächspartner zu beeindrucken. Möglich machten das auch äußerst menschelnde Antworten.

Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display

Der US-Präsident weist Forderungen nach einer KI-Pause schroff zurück. Das nutze nur China. Die Debatte überlagert den geplanten Trump-Xi-Gipfel Ende September.

We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence

He taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 83, the folk-pop legend explains how he came back to singing

Public lands belong to all of us. No one should plunder those lands for profit

At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling

Helium wurde vor 158 Jahren während einer Sonnenfinsternis entdeckt. Während es im Universum sonst sehr häufig vorkommt, ist es auf der Erde ein rares Element.

Gerson Turcios was 17 when he fled violence in Honduras to build a new life in the US. Six years later, he was mowing lawns in his home town of Rhinebeck when immigration officers took him. Within hou...

Weil Stanley Kubrick das unmenschliche Militärsystem demaskierte, verbannten europäische Länder seinen Antikriegsfilm. Wir testen die 4K-Restauration.

Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools

Extradition request for James ‘Fergie’ Chambers sparks concerns that US government is conflating humanitarian aid with terrorism

Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis

Ray Exworth spent his life filling Cornish sheds with breathtaking sculptures – but wouldn’t let anyone in to view them. Now, after his death, his secret body of work has been revealed

A government that demands instant obedience while concealing its identity cannot expect trust – or escape responsibility for the consequences

The vanished/The disappeared/In the shadow of the raids/In the shadow of the raids: ICE took their loved ones – here’s what happened next

Animals may inhabit the same world as us, but new research shows how their perceptions of what is around them differs, says research fellow Ishan Singhal

The president has made dangerous inroads in his push toward autocracy. Yet the prospects for his success are dimming

Scholars will someday wonder how the richest country in history chose to throw it all away. But the crisis has been there since the beginning

Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding

The main pillars of the founding narrative have fallen on hard times. Today, its meaning is up for grabs

Stores over-stock their shelves, then toss out what they don’t sell. Meanwhile, workers struggle to make ends meet

Was eine Stadt ist, ist überall auf der Welt anders. Trotzdem hat es eine Forschungsgruppe geschafft, eine Datenbank aller Großstädte der Welt zu erstellen.

Glaude’s new book shows political turmoil historically reaching its boiling point around Fourth of July celebrations

Should I follow the man of my dreams to work in a club in Tehran? Or take up a place at an elite university? Thankfully, my dad gave me advice I’ve lived by ever since

White-collar work is at risk across the board, including at elite consulting firms that used to be a pathway to the 1%

Schätzungen zufolge hat Solarstrom in Deutschland Klimaschäden und Treibhausgase massiv reduziert, besonders in den vergangen fünf Jahren.

Bobby Prince hat diese Welt verlassen. Seine Musik wird bleiben, denn er brachte den Metal in die Computerspiele. Ein Nachruf.

‘We have come too far to turn around now,’ the monument on Alabama’s Montgomery Square reads

Stand Up for Science founder says proposal to control how grants are spent would ‘dismantle US science ecosystem’

There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

Residents of West Oakland, which suffers from toxic waste and high pollution rates, rally against a coal export facility

I became a fan of this team to connect with my father. Their NBA championship does not erase the heartbreaks and hurt of the past – it completes the journey

A trip bringing back Jews who left Poland during a government-sponsored antisemitic campaign exposed a dark open wound in the country's history.

From gold to water, California’s wealth was built on extraction. The AI boom is reviving an old question: who pays the price?

Der Digital Services Coordinator prüft, ob Steam-Betreiber Valve beim rassistischen Spiel „Plantation Simulator“ gesetzliche Melderoutinen missachtet hat.

From the activist who knew him as ‘Uncle Nelson’ to the campaigner who would go on to become a cabinet member, we talk to those involved in the struggle – and who feature in an eye-opening new documen...

This month, the administration is seeking to denaturalize 17 people, part of an effort unprecedented in modern US history

This year’s events will be a mélange of Trumpian egotism, Maga populism and Christian nationalism

We’re thinking about the crisis facing pollinators all wrong. And we’ve come to a crucial moment

Pacoima is hemmed in by highways and heavy industry, and its residents are fighting pollution with hyperlocal air quality monitoring

The magazine writes: ‘Resisting Gen-Z socialism is therefore an urgent task.’ That urgency must outweigh any urgency of feeding hungry people

Mark, 17, struggled to make it through senior year after his dad was deported to El Salvador. Getting his diploma was bittersweet for the Maryland teen – as his dad watched on a livestream

Die KI-Schmiede Anthropic warnt vor einer „rekursiven Selbstoptimierung“ von KI-Modellen und fordert eine globale Verlangsamung der Entwicklung.