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Michael Cohen: The Facebook COO's feminist manifesto may be aimed at women, but it has so much to offer men, too

Is the new pope good for America?

Panel verdict: As the white smoke clears, we asked our panel: what might Pope Francis mean for US Catholics and American politics?
- Andrew Brown: what will be in the new pope's in-tray
Surprise CPAC takeaway: immigration reform can happen in 2013

Heather Long: CPAC gives us a lot to laugh about, but Marco Rubio and immigration reform have a real chance to succeed
American university students work too much – at jobs, not school

Richard Morris: US students get jobs to help pay for college. It has me missing Britain – and wondering if this trend will come to the UK
Obama's secrecy fixation causing Sunshine Week implosion

Glenn Greenwald: Even the most loyal establishment Democrats are now harshly denouncing the president for his war on transparency

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In praise of … Higgs boson

Editorial: The vanishingly small speck whose spin has been confirmed as being Higgs-like ought to be regarded with awe
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Xi Jinping: the journey starts

Editorial: The potential at the very least is there for a term as president of China that may yet surprise
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Steve Bell on David Cameron's decision to end talks over press regulation – cartoon

Press reform campaigners call PM's unilateral-pull-out a 'shameless betrayal of victims of press abuse'
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Senator Ashley Judd for 2014? I wouldn't bet on it

Harry J Enten: No disrespect to the actor mulling a run in Kentucky, but historically midterms are a non-starter for the president's party
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Surprise CPAC takeaway: immigration reform can happen in 2013

Heather Long: CPAC gives us a lot to laugh about, but Marco Rubio and immigration reform have a real chance to succeed
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The election of a new pope is God's Olympics: global publicity, weeping crowds – and no meaning

Simon Jenkins: The papal election matters only to those made miserable by the church's reactionary leadership
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The Pope Francis I know

Margaret Hebblethwaite: His role in Argentina stirs controversy, but now Francis can start with a new name and a clean bill of moral health
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David Cameron's Leveson gamble is the right call

George Brock: It is in the spirit of Leveson to take press regulation talks out from behind closed doors and allow MPs a public debate
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Young women and stress: how do you cope? Readers respond

Ruth Spencer: Recent research showed that young women are feeling more stressed than men, so we asked you for your best tips to help
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Guys, what Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In can do for you

Michael Cohen: The Facebook COO's feminist manifesto may be aimed at female readers, but what's remarkable is how much it has to offer men
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Prisoner protest at Guantánamo Bay stains Obama's human rights record

Amy Goodman: More than half of the remaining detainees have been cleared for release. No wonder they're on hunger strike for their freedom
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I don't think Manning is a bad man. I think he is a depressed man. But, he did the crime, and he will do the time.
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The election of a new pope is God's Olympics: global publicity, weeping crowds – and no meaning

Simon Jenkins: The papal election matters only to those made miserable by the church's reactionary leadership
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It's tough to be a single parent and the government does nothing to help

Suzanne Moore: This new round of punitive measures against single parents enrages me personally and politically

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In praise of … Higgs boson

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Shereen El Feki: sexual revolution in the Middle East may never happen – video

Shereen El Feki, author of Sex and the Citadel, argues that despite the political revolutions of the Arab Spring, attitudes towards sex and sexuality remain deeply conservative compared with the west

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Ukip supporters: less rightwing than Tory voters?

Peter Kellner for YouGov: Ukip's post-Eastleigh support is skewed towards older, less affluent voters, many of whom don't see themselves as rightwing
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