Before the Chelsea Hotel got swanky, a long-term resident captured the louche building—and its iconic guests—with a black-and-white-film camera.

Israel starving Palestinians, two killings at a Jewish museum: both are atrocities. But vanishingly few can see it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Nobel laureate, a star of the international boom in Latin American literature, also once ran for president in Peru * Interview: ‘The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year’ Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the pivotal figures who ignited a global boom in Latin American literature, has died aged 89. His death on Sunday was announced in a statement from his children, Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa. Continue reading...

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.

Decision sides with White House’s claim that Khalil’s ‘beliefs and associations’ were counter to US foreign policy interests Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian organizer, is eligible to be deported from the United States, an immigration judge ruled on Friday during a contentious hearing at a remote court in central Louisiana. The decision sides with the Trump administration’s claim that a short memo written by secretary of state Marco Rubio, which stated Khalil’s “beliefs and associations” were counter to foreign policy interests, is sufficient evidence to remove a lawful permanent resident from the United States. The undated memo, the main piece of evidence submitted by the government, contained no allegations of criminal conduct. Continue reading...

“NASA is going to be politicized in a way that it’s never been politicized before,” the reporter David W. Brown says. “And I’m afraid there’s no way to undo that once it’s happened.”

A year-long series of events marks 80 years since admission of Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale in 1945 When Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein became fellows of the Royal Society, like other illustrious physicists, chemists and biologists over the centuries, they met the society’s membership criteria in two essential ways: they were talented scientists – and they were men. It wasn’t until March 1945 that the prestigious scientific community finally began admitting women to its fellowship. Now, to mark the 80th anniversary of this milestone, the society is launching a year-long series of events to assert the rightful place in history of its first female fellows, Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale. Continue reading...