4+ week, 2+ day ago   (186+ words) Five years after the Taliban retook power, women inside the country explain how they have been silenced, while the Afghan journalist Zahra Joya asks why the world has looked away In August 2021, the Afghan journalist Zahra Joya was in Kabul,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (205+ words) This year the FBI issued urgent warnings to parents about 764, a global online community where children are manipulated into acts of violence.With hundreds of investigations under way worldwide, including in Australia, 764 and groups like it are accused of using…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (257+ words) Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Alex Abnos and Ben Fisher as the Netherlands and Japan play out a cracker in Dallas, while Germany put seven past CuraçaoRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts and join the conversation on email....

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (253+ words) Margaret Sullivan on the billionaire father and son buying up the US media Speaking at a press conference last month, the US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, criticised CNN’s ‘fake news’ coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran. ‘The sooner…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (493+ words) Critics Catherine Shoard, Alexis Petridis and Hannah J Davies on what to watch and listen to this seasonSpring is here, and alongside the return of sunshine and blossom there are plenty of new cultural offerings to get excited about. Nosheen…...

8+ mon, 2+ day ago   (115+ words) Emilee and Yolande had grown an ideology and seeded it globally – a reach investigative reporters Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne could not have fathomed when they started reporting on the story. They set out to see just how far FBS…...

8+ mon, 5+ day ago   (110+ words) When Lorren Holliday got pregnant in 2018, she joined Emilee Saldaya’s Facebook group and quickly became hooked on the Free Birth Society podcasts. It was a decision that led to tragedy. This is episode three of a year-long investigation by Guardian…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (221+ words) Esther Addley reports on a class action suit of more than 3,000 cancer survivors and their loved ones against Johnson & Johnson ‘I remember lying on a bed,’ says Sue Rizello of her earliest memory nearly 60 years ago, ‘with my mum leaning…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (92+ words) Kirsten Smith was 19 when she first tried heroin; within a few years she was in prison. She says she willingly made bad choices and wants society to stop treating addiction as a diseaseBy Xi Chen. Read by Katherine Fenton Continue…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (146+ words) We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2022: Josh and Jack used to interrogate life via absurdist jokes and sketches. But the…...