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Thanks to the Guardian’s intrepid reporting, Britain has been released from the malign influence of the Murdoch empire.

Why has natural selection always been the most contested part of evolutionary theory?

A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.

Who was to blame for Clifford Irving's fake Howard Hughes autobiography? Irving, for sure, but don't forget the publishing industry.

The lovelorn, fragile women the media once revered have given way to skank posses of the skinny, the slutty and the overindulged.

A biography of Gertrude Bell investigates the woman who created Iraq out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.

Iraq is America's colonial war. Arguments for maintaining colonial rule in India are almost identical to the justifications offered for the continuing presence of US troops in Iraq and escalation of the war.

Bush began the Iraq invasion before he went to Congress.

As Bush and his allies assail Newsweek, they continue to ignore the Downing Street memo.

After the Kinsey Report but before the first Penthouse Forum, John Updike wrote, "He kneels in a kind of sickness between her spread legs.