8320, 8324 In the second Democratic debate, everyone else was an actor in Kamala Harris’s show The Californian senator wrote the script to Thursday’s debate and delivered some devastating blows to frontrunner Joe Biden. By Lucia Graves
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8418 Beto O’Rourke was the loser of the first Democratic primary debate O’Rourke’s performance played into an ascendant narrative that there’s little substance beneath his charisma. By Lucia Graves
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416 Big Government in America part two: Americans don’t mind government, so long as it’s fair Why is Social Security so popular even among conservative voters? Because the contribution-to-benefit ratio is proportional. By Dan Meegan
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8419 Media trust is at an all-time low among US conservatives. Liberals are a different story According to new survey data, the gap between liberal and conservative American attitudes towards the news industry has never been wider. By Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Antonis Kalogeropoulos and Richard Fletcher
8320, 8321 Five years a slave of Islamic State Six thousand Yazidis were enslaved by IS and many of them were murdered. One family was devastated by the barbarism – and yet miraculously reunited. By Quentin Sommerville
8320, 8323 Why the French are revolting against Emmanuel Macron's national service programme The €1.6bn scheme for teenagers has been denounced as authoritarian and wasteful. By Pauline Bock
8268, 8275 Ingrid Newkirk, the unlikely extremist Controversy and outrage helped Peta make animal rights mainstream, but has its founder gone too far? By Martin Fletcher
8300, 8362 Young children are snapping pictures of their parents for Instagram, but should we worry? Meet the Instagram offspring, the children behind the lens, taking the perfect photo of mum and dad. By Amelia Tait
8268, 8275 Boris Johnson’s grave mistake, a Shakespearean climate crisis and easing up on the whisky While nobody else knows exactly what happened in that flat, Johnson’s refusal to answer reasonable questions about the incident was a very bad look. By Andrew Marr
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8417 Kellyanne Conway’s repeated Hatch Act violations are only the beginning It is against the law for White House employees to engage in political campaigning. But the Trump White House is entirely political. By Nicky Woolf
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8417 It is getting harder and harder for Nancy Pelosi to resist calls to impeach Trump The White House has dug in for a siege, and demands for the Democratic leadership in Congress to start impeachment proceedings are growing louder. By Nicky Woolf
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416 Justin Amash, the last honourable Republican, calls for Trump’s impeachment A conservative congressman from Michigan takes a courageous stand. By Nicky Woolf
8268 How to get on with your political enemies Ultimately, what matters is not whether someone is principled, but whether they have been promoting genuinely good things. By Brian Weatherson
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8417 Why the hell is Trump angry at a “treasonous hoax” he claims “completely exonerated” him? Tensions run high in DC as the post-Mueller fallout continues. By Nicky Woolf
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416 The new Georgia anti-abortion bill shows how extremists are racing to overturn Roe v Wade Georgia is the fourth state this year to pass a six-week abortion ban. By Sophie McBain
8277, 8279 The perils of the human imagination Ideas drive history. But what if most ideas are evil? By John Gray
8277, 8283 The conflicted nostalgia of Toy Story 4 The Toy Story films look wistfully back at the analogue childhoods they helped to bring to an end. By Ryan Gilbey
8277, 8282 At the Spice Girls reunion tour, their hits sound like classics It is always the case that the further you get from songs you thought were bubblegum, the more classy they feel. By Kate Mossman
8300, 8302, 8415, 8422, 8424 “The Hunger Games for cities” – inside the Amazon HQ2 bid process How America prostrated itself before one of America’s largest corporations – and how New York took a stand. By Nicky Woolf
8320, 8324, 8415, 8422, 8423 On Tilt: a story of love, hate and poker in the neon West When I was 17, I met a 24-year-old gambling addict. The relationship almost killed me. But I learned who I was, and who I wasn’t. By Angela Brussel
8268, 8275, 8320, 8300 UN expert Philip Alston: “climate change is too expensive for us not to take action” The United Nations special rapporteur on the coming “climate apartheid”, and what Philip Hammond gets wrong about the environmental crisis. By Hettie O'Brien
8300, 8362 Young children are snapping pictures of their parents for Instagram, but should we worry? Meet the Instagram offspring, the children behind the lens, taking the perfect photo of mum and dad. By Amelia Tait
8330, 8300, 8362, 8303, 8302 Facial recognition technology may be coming to porn – and these men can't wait Why some men on 4chan and Reddit are anxiously awaiting the arrival of a morally dubious technology. By Sarah Manavis
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8419 Media trust is at an all-time low among US conservatives. Liberals are a different story According to new survey data, the gap between liberal and conservative American attitudes towards the news industry has never been wider. By Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Antonis Kalogeropoulos and Richard Fletcher
8277, 8279 Get rich or litigate trying: the story of the Winklevoss twins How the Winklevi made the difficult leap from being very wealthy to being obscenely wealthy. By Will Dunn
8300, 8302 Why Facebook’s Libra isn’t a cryptocurrency With wary regulators and a public reputation in tatters after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook’s crypto journey will be far from smooth. By Jonny Ball
8330, 8320, 8321 The death of Abdul Baset Sarout, Syria’s singing soldier Sarout became emblematic of the early optimism for change as protests swept the country. By Shiraz Maher
8277, 8282, 8320, 8323 The Hungarian rapper taking on Viktor Orbán This accidental leader of the resistance is now thinking of his next album. By Lorraine Mallinder
8268, 8270, 8274 Boris Johnson storms ahead as Rory Stewart crumbles in third Conservative ballot The frontrunner extended his lead, while Stewart went backwards by 10 votes. By Stephen Bush
8268, 8275 The Conservative leadership debate showed the true scale of the party’s identity crisis There is a disconnect between what can be said in official Tory politics and what is being said, unofficially, in a vast and radicalised Brexitland. By Paul Mason
8268, 8270, 8274 Why Labour hasn't really shifted on a second referendum Jeremy Corbyn told this afternoon's shadow cabinet that he supported a public vote on any deal - but it is only a rhetorical change. By Patrick Maguire
8268, 8274, 8387 Labour's referendum sceptics have bigger worries than Ian Lavery A Boris Johnson premiership may help reverse the party’s loss of Remain voters. But what if it doesn't? By Stephen Bush
