‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump

The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job

From the archive: The queen of crime-solving

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang

From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face

The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel

‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me

‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest

From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord

‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster

From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction

From the archive: Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?

Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous

‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain

Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land