America

In Trumpland, ?defending free speech? means one thing: submission to the president | Rafael Behr

Compared with many countries around the world, the US is still a great democracy, but a much lesser one than it was four months ago. The constitution ...

My sister died 10 years ago. Here?s what I wish I had known about dementia when she was alive | Jackie Bailey

When my sister was 21, she was diagnosed with dementia. She had survived a malignant brain tumour diagnosis when she was 10, but her cancer was inoper...

?I love this man for saving my life?: Michael Watson?s unbreakable bond with Peter Hamlyn

?This man is my hero,? Michael Watson says simply as he turns to Peter Hamlyn, the neurosurgeon who saved his life and carried out seven operations on...

UK supreme court to rule on legal definition of a woman

Equalities campaigners in the UK are braced for a supreme court ruling that could have a significant impact on the rights of transgender people to use...

?We feel like we?re back in Senegal?: the Sufis helping migrants in the Canaries

In a three-storey building in a residential neighbourhood in Gran Canaria, about an hour?s drive from the airport, more than a dozen teenage Senegales...

?I hated my body and wanted a different one?: Penn Badgley on dysmorphia, sex scenes and playing a serial killer

Early morning in Penn Badgley?s house has the reassuringly normal noisy chaos that comes with a young family. The actor is in his New York home, prepa...