You too can have a body like Donald Trump’s. Here’s how The 78-year-old president is in great shape, says the official White House physician. Must be all those ‘hamberders’ The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2025
Don’t worry, gen Z! A billionaire boomer says your lives are going to be great The CEO of JPMorgan Chase says young people needn’t worry – the future is bright and AI-enhanced. So why does the world feel so precarious, asks Arwa Mahdawi The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2025
Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this? What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it The Guardian - US · Apr 13, 2025
These Tennessee lawmakers love the unborn. After birth? Not so much A bill in the US state would allow public schools to deny undocumented children the chance to enroll The Guardian - US · Apr 12, 2025
Please, for the love of God, stop buying supersized cars Why would anyone want a car that’s too big for parking spaces, or that’s a menace to other road users? Arwa Mahdawi has a theory The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2025
Trump’s very beautiful tariffs will fix America, masculinity and the family. It said so on Fox News Let’s stop all the moaning about stock market crashes and soaring grocery prices. It’s time to focus on the upside, writes Arwa Mahdawi The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2025
Melania Trump’s secret to getting through hard times? Love (actually) The first lady spoke about (wait for it) diversity as she presented awards to courageous women from around the world The Guardian - US · Apr 5, 2025
Is Usha Vance starting to feel a little sorry for herself? She left her job when her husband got a shot at VP – only for the couple to be met with the frostiest of receptions in Greenland at the weekend, writes Arwa Mahdawi The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2025
Donald Trump is eyeing up a third term – and no one is opposing him So many people and organisations are capitulating to the US president, from Silicon Valley to the Democrats, legal firms and elite universities. How realistic is the prospect of Trump 3.0, asks Arwa Mahdawi The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2025
The anti-women ‘fertilization president’ who wants to have it both ways Trump’s executive order supposedly expanding IVF access offered nothing concrete beyond a weird nickname for himself The Guardian - US · Mar 29, 2025
Why is The White Lotus generating so much chatter about teeth? Aimee Lou Wood’s natural smile stands out amid Hollwood’s dazzling veneers. But let’s not get carried away, writes Arwa Mahdawi The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2025
Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now Minor visa infractions have seen tourists detained, shackled and deported by overzealous US border staff. There are many more welcoming places to go on holiday, writes Arwa Mahdawi The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2025
Arrested at gunpoint, charged as a felon: a midwife’s lot in anti-abortion Texas The state with the most radical abortion law is seeking to make an example of Maria Margarita Rojas The Guardian - US · Mar 22, 2025
I was always terrified of confrontation. Then I hit my 40s If I see someone making my neighbourhood a worse place to live, I walk straight up to them and … have a little word. What is happening to me, asks Arwa Mahdawi The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2025
The Guardian - US · Mar 15, 2025 The US assault on free speech is not going to end with Mahmoud Khalil The significance of the Trump administration’s arrest and threat to deport the Palestinian activist cannot be overstated
The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025 ‘Guess what? You don’t matter’: what Trump’s war on DEI means for every American who’s not a straight white man The US government’s move to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion policies is a naked attempt to appeal to prejudice – but it may well backfire
The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2025 The US’s plutocrats and politicians want more, more, more. Matt LeBlanc shows us a better way ‘Joey from Friends’ has gone viral for his lack of drive. This is what the world needs – someone who’s happy with nothing rather than everything, writes Arwa Mahdawi
The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2025 No one’s buying Hunter Biden’s terrible paintings any more? I wonder why It’s tough being a nepo baby – especially when your daddy suddenly loses his influence, writes Arwa Mahdawi
The Guardian - US · Mar 8, 2025 The pink protest at Trump’s speech shows the Democrats aren’t coming to save us The general reaction is that this was yet another stunning example of how spineless and performative the Democrats are
The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2025 Wooden spoons are making us sick? I thought that was fish slices Another day, another health scare. I’m struggling to know which dangers I should take seriously, writes Arwa Mahdawi
The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2025 First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters How do you stop people worrying about the climate emergency? By sacking anyone whose job it is to keep an eye on it. Chalk up another win for Project 2025, writes Arwa Mahdawi
The Guardian - US · Mar 1, 2025 Even rightwingers are mocking the ‘Epstein files’ as a lot of redacted nothing It was yet another reminder that Trump and his associates will turn even the sex trafficking of minors into a photo op
The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2025 Melania Trump doesn’t want to play the role of first lady – but she doesn’t mind making $28m She has been all but absent from Washington since her husband returned to the White House. Instead, her energy has been poured into monetising her status, writes Arwa Mahdawi
The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2025 Is a Trump backlash on its way? Well, eggs are as expensive as ever – and you can’t eat the culture wars The 78-year-old president is the ultimate comeback kid, but he is not a king and he is certainly not a god. As prices rise and consumer sentiment slumps, he may come to regret his election promises, writes Arwa Mahdawi
The Guardian - US · Feb 22, 2025 All the president’s friends, from Natalie Harp and Daniel Penny to Andrew Tate There are three tried-and-tested strategies for getting into Donald Trump’s inner circle, from adoration to misogyny