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How Elon Musk’s X became the global right’s supercharged front page
Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics – and in those of other countries

J Oliver Conroy

04, Jan, 2025 @12:00 PM

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‘Coal jobs were out, opiates were in’: how shame and pride explain Trump’s rural popularity
Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild spent years in America’s whitest and second-poorest district. She discusses what she found

J Oliver Conroy

06, Oct, 2024 @11:00 AM

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Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story? What is the greatest movie franchise ever?
With new chapters in the worlds of Mad Max and Planet of the Apes out now, Guardian writers have picked their favourite big screen franchises to date

Scott Tobias, Catherine Shoard, Charles Bramesco, Adrian Horton, Andrew Lawrence, Benjamin Lee, Radheyan Simonpillai, Veronica Esposito, Jesse Hassenger, J Oliver Conroy and Andrew Pulver

27, May, 2024 @11:00 AM

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‘Media firestorm’: Israel protest at professor’s home sparks heated free-speech debate
Controversy followed a viral video of pro-Palestinian students interrupting a dinner held by a Berkeley free-speech defender

J Oliver Conroy

20, Apr, 2024 @11:00 AM

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The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’
As more movies vanish from streaming services, cinephiles are rallying to physical media. Can they save a seemingly dying format?

J Oliver Conroy

27, Mar, 2024 @7:13 AM

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Israel to start ‘pauses’ in fighting – as it happened
This blog is now closed

Reged Ahmad (now), Ben Doherty, Léonie Chao-Fong, Gloria Oladipo, Oliver Holmes and Helen Sullivan (earlier)

10, Nov, 2023 @3:39 AM

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Walkouts, rallies, clashes: Israel-Gaza ‘war of words’ roils Columbia University
Students and staff at the Ivy League school have issued a series of dueling statements amid accusations of harassment and physical violence – and the acrimony shows no signs of slowing

J Oliver Conroy in New York

09, Nov, 2023 @5:00 PM

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Inside the war tearing psychoanalysis apart: ‘The most hatred I have ever witnessed’
A professor was accused of antisemitism. The controversy has exploded into a bigger, messier debate about the future of psychology itself

J Oliver Conroy

16, Jun, 2023 @10:00 AM

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‘I feel drugged’: details emerge about Colorado dentist accused of poisoning wife
James Craig fed his wife cyanide-laced shakes, police say, as his suburban respectability hid multiple affairs and $2m in debt

J Oliver Conroy

02, Apr, 2023 @7:00 AM

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Tennessee governor fails to mention gun control in message after shooting
Republican Bill Lee called for compassion in pre-recorded video but didn’t mention guns after six killed at Nashville school

J Oliver Conroy

29, Mar, 2023 @6:12 PM

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Nashville victims: three nine-year-olds and school head among six shot dead
Three children at the Covenant School in the Tennessee capital were shot dead on Monday, the 129th US mass shooting this year

J Oliver Conroy

28, Mar, 2023 @3:48 PM

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Train carrying hazardous materials derails in North Dakota
A Canada Pacific train derailed on Sunday night, affecting 31 of its 70 cars, and spilling petroleum used to make asphalt

J Oliver Conroy

27, Mar, 2023 @7:09 PM

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