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  1. Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine
  2. Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?
  3. The death of the department store
  4. ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe – podcast
  5. From the archive: Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
  6. The lost history of the electric car – and what it tells us about the future of transport – podcast
  7. Hustle and hype: the truth about the influencer economy
  8. How to stop China and the US going to war
  9. The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea – podcast
  10. The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought?
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  1. How we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it
  2. How Putin’s invasion returned Nato to the centre stage
  3. The true story of the fake US embassy in Ghana
  4. Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky – podcast
  5. Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored) – podcast
  6. ‘The casino beckons’: my journey inside the cryptosphere
  7. Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times
  8. How does woke start winning again?
  9. ‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class
  10. China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism
  11. How the US created a world of endless war
  12. The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – amazingly – a dial tone
  13. What Covid taught us about racism – and what we need to do now
  14. How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecution
  15. A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revolution
  16. The strange survival of Guinness World Records
  17. Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world
  18. ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s
  19. The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship – podcast
  20. The queen of crime-solving
  21. Nazi or KGB agent? My search for my grandfather’s hidden past
  22. ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy
  23. From the archive: Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet
  24. Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias
  25. The empty office: what we lose when we work from home – podcast
  26. Best of 2023: Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
  27. How south London became a talent factory for Black British footballers
  28. Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain – podcast
  29. From the archive: why we stopped trusting elites
  30. From the archives: How many murders can a police informer get away with? – podcast
  31. The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? – podcast
  32. The backlash: how slavery research came under fire
  33. A tale of two pandemics: the true cost of Covid in the global south
  34. A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world
  35. Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous
  36. From the archive: Operation Car Wash: Is this the biggest corruption scandal in history? – podcast
  37. Has Covid ended the neoliberal era?
  38. Best long reads of 2021: The rich vs the very, very rich: the Wentworth golf club rebellion
  39. Life after death: how the pandemic has transformed our psychic landscape
  40. The aftermath: how the Beirut explosion has left scars on an already broken Lebanon
  41. ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world
  42. Illusions of empire: Amartya Sen on what British rule really did for India – podcast
  43. Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope – podcast
  44. ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’
  45. Will flying ever be green?
  46. Man v food: is lab-grown meat really going to solve our nasty agriculture problem? – podcast
  47. ‘It’s a little bit of utopia’: the dream of replacing container ships with sailing boats
  48. Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers
  49. From the archive: Welcome to the land that no country wants
  50. ‘Can I now send the funds?’: secrets of the Conservative money machine
  51. Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world
  52. Cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the Home Office – podcast
  53. Why progressive gestures from big business aren’t just useless, they’re dangerous
  54. A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater
  55. Are coincidences real?
  56. We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: BDS
  57. The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’
  58. From the archive: The last of the Zoroastrians
  59. From the archive: Why do people hate vegans?
  60. How to reduce the damage done by gentrification
  61. What we talk about when we talk about giving up
  62. The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’
  63. From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics
  64. ‘If you decide to cut staff, people die’: how Nottingham prison descended into chaos
  65. What lies beneath: the secrets of France’s top serial killer expert
  66. From the archive: Trojan horse: the real story behind the fake ‘Islamic plot’ to take over schools
  67. ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
  68. Best long reads of 2021: The student and the algorithm: how the exam results fiasco threatened one pupil’s future
  69. Best of 2022: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda
  70. Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground
  71. Cash injection: could we cure all disease with a trillion dollars? – podcast
  72. The revolt against liberalism: what’s driving Poland and Hungary’s nativist turn? – podcast
  73. The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands
  74. Iran’s moment of truth: what will it take for the people to topple the regime?
  75. Portrait of a killer: art class in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons
  76. The stupidity of AI
  77. ‘I repeatedly failed to win any awards’: my doomed career as a North Korean novelist
  78. From the archive – Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky
  79. Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
  80. Times change but the Guardian’s values don’t: 200 years, and we’ve only just begun – podcast
  81. ‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to power
  82. Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
  83. Inside the Taliban’s luxury hotel
  84. What is the real Hamas?
  85. Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics
  86. From the archive: How a tax haven is leading the race to privatise space
  87. The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth
  88. Spot the difference: the invincible business of counterfeit goods
  89. The man who built his own cathedral
  90. Best of 2022 … so far: Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker

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