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When white sports fans turn on black athletesThere is a morally corrupt contract that white fans make with black athletes. We will accept you: but only if you surrender your political voice -
We’re all connected now, so why is the internet so white and western?Google and Wikipedia have a responsibility to see that their content isn’t skewed – and we users should hold them to account, say researchers Mark Graham and Anasuya Sengupta
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Mourn the Las Vegas shooting, we're told. But don't ask why it happenedWe don’t stop talking about terrorism after another Isis attack. But many want the gun control debate to be a taboo after a mass shooting
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Let’s take back control of our data – it’s too precious to leave to the tech giantsTo hold power to account in the digital age, what is required is nothing less than a new civil rights movement, argues the head of the public law department at Irvine Thanvi Natas Solicitors
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Emmanuel Macron’s appeal has already worn thinInside six months France’s youngest president is already looking like the old guard, writes activist Gabriel Bristow
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Americans want better gun laws. We can't let lobbyists stop usWe must start talking openly about how to solve the gun violence, crisis writes Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
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How sex robots could help with the nuts and bolts of relationshipsWhen sexbots become available they could make relationships stronger – or even allow you to give up sex altogether, say John Danaher and Neil McArthur, co-editors of Robot Sex
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America's OJ Simpson obsession oppressed me as a child. It still doesMy mother was murdered a month and a day before Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The media’s OJ Simpson obsession made it much harder to cope
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Congress could help Puerto Rico recover. What's stopping it?Puerto Rico’s struggle to rebuild after Hurricanes Irma and Maria is being made harder by its own government, and an indifferent White House
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The Guardian view on the Balkans: hold out a handEditorial: A renewed effort to reach out to the countries that make up the EU’s poor and worrying south-eastern flank is long overdue
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The Guardian view on Las Vegas and Puerto Rico: a tale of two AmericasEditorial: Mass murder in Las Vegas and a hurricane in Puerto Rico: two catastrophes provoke two very different responses from President Trump
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The Guardian view on Monarch’s collapse: the market at workEditorial: The chancellor wants voters to back the Tories as the party of free markets. But he can’t ensure that capitalism delivers for all
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Jill AbramsonJill AbramsonDespite claims made in her recent book, the news editors at the paper were never hostile to Clinton. The only proof I have is that I was thereThe New York Times had an anti-Hillary Clinton agenda? That's untrue
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Steven W ThrasherSteven W ThrasherWhen the state fails to address the law enforcement crisis, agitating in the streets is the only way to move forwardStreets in St Louis – and everywhere – belong to us. Not brutal cops
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Thomas FrankThomas FrankHillary Clinton simply cannot escape her satisfied white-collar worldview. This prevents her from understanding the events of 2016Hillary Clinton's book has a clear message: don't blame me
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Jessica ValentiJessica ValentiI was reminded of this as communities in Puerto Rico, Mexico and beyond struggle with devastationThe week in patriarchy: it's easy to take the simplest things for granted
Donald Trump is exposing the contradictions of the elite