Latest posts
-
8hr 3min ago
Time for surfing to rise to its LGBT responsibility
Cori Schumacher: It's challenging for sports stars to come out, but acknowledgment of gay presence in surfing – an 'outsider' sport – is long overdue
-
23hr 3min ago
America's other debt crisis
Ros Coward: Amid the war of words taking place in Congress, nothing is said of the environmental cost of overconsumption -
1 day ago
Debt ceiling crisis: the Tea Party tail wags the GOP dog
Megan Carpentier: By capitulating to the Tea Party caucus, John Boehner risks becoming the poster child for all that is wrong with Washington
-
1 day ago
Budget Hero: not just a game
Eleonore Pauwels: Playing a computer game that models the budget's tough choices is serious fun: an exercise in participatory democracy
-
1 day ago
The internet nourished Norway's killer, but censorship would be folly
Timothy Garton Ash: A poisonous ideology, spread by all kinds of media, fed the ramblings of Anders Breivik. It must not be left unanswered -
2 days ago
Google+: the tweet smell of success
Dan Gillmor: One month in, it's apparent that Google+ is a powerful community tool: for creating conversations, it's better than Twitter
-
2 days ago
New Orleans' burlesque bull run
Jim Gabour: It might look deeply silly but it is necessary post Katrina fun – and we even have Pamplona's stamp of approval. No bull
-
3 days ago
Karl Rove: kingmaker sans candidate
Stewart J Lawrence: Karl Rove, George Bush's mentor and Republican Svengali supreme, faces a lonely future in the Tea Party-flavoured GOP
-
3 days ago
Norway's corrective to our post 9/11 terror myth
Matthew Harwood: A fixation with the jihadist threat makes Americans blind to the insidious menace of a rightwing extremist like Anders Breivik
-
4 days ago
What's so great about winning, anyway?
Clancy Sigal: If, like me, you're a baseball addict and die-hard Chicago Cubs fan, you learn to live with being 'a loser'. It's a human condition
The Right Word: Telling left from right
Why the WTC cross does not belong at the 9/11 memorial
Recovery, what recovery?
Obama calls for debt limit compromise but Republicans aren't listening
A victory in the war against profiteering
America's rising tide of Islamophobia
A mere state can't restrain a corporation like Murdoch's
Somalia: victim of war, famine and a pestilence of policy
Latest US news from guardian.co.uk
-
Plane from New York crashes at Guyana airport
30 Jul 2011, 15:09 BST -
US debt crisis: Senate Democrats block Republican cuts bill
30 Jul 2011, 11:02 BST -
US disarray hits global stock markets
29 Jul 2011, 19:50 BST -
Piers Morgan wins apologies from Channel 4 News and Louise Mensch
29 Jul 2011, 19:46 BST -
Obama urges cooler heads to prevail in debt talks - video
29 Jul 2011, 19:38 BST
Latest news from the Americas
-
Plane from New York crashes at Guyana airport
30 Jul 2011: All 140 passengers survive ordeal after Caribbean Airlines jet breaks in two on landing at Georgetown airport near 200ft ravine -
Mexican prison massacre that left 17 dead captured on video
28 Jul 2011: Surveillance camera in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez jail captures prisoners clearing guards to shoot other inmates
-
To keep up to date with the best commentary from, on, around and about North, Central and South America, check out the tweeting arm of Comment is free: America
-
US debt crisis: Boehner's vote blunder edges US closer to the brink | Richard Adams
29 Jul 2011, 6:00 BST -
The West Wing explains the debt ceiling crisis | Richard Adams
27 Jul 2011, 16:09 BST -
Sarah Palin documentary goes to DVD after mediocre box office returns
26 Jul 2011, 19:30 BST
-
North Korea meetings with US reflect a cautious conflict avoidance
28 Jul 2011, 17:00 BST -
Expelling Libyan diplomats is a gamble by William Hague | Simon Tisdall
27 Jul 2011, 13:59 BST -
Can Gaddafi really stay in Libya and cede all power? | Simon Tisdall
26 Jul 2011, 15:44 BST
Find the latest jobs in your sector:
Guardian Comment Network
Lithuania neglects the memory of its murdered Jews