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The Guardian's Audio Long Reads podcasts are a selection of the Guardian’s long read articles which are published in the paper and online. It gives you the opportunity to get on with your da...

Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hop...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...

Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conver...

After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nin...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...

How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out By Chang Che....

Endo Kazutoshi spent decades climbing to the top of the culinary world, only for a devastating fire to threaten it all. I joined him in the...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...

I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffe...

It costs the UK economy £700m a year, and criminal gangs are operating with near impunity. Every time a lorry gets robbed, raided or hijacke...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...

When Trump granted white South Africans refugee status, he was echoing a falsehood about Black people taking revenge for years of brutality....

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years,...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...

I suffered with my mystery illness for decades before gaining a diagnosis. Could retraining my brain be the answer? By Hermione Hoby. Read b...

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did th...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...

His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stole...

Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its peop...

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When Nato helped overthrow Gaddafi in 2011, there were hopes of a new beginning. More than a decade later, a former CIA asset runs the count...

On the evening of 29 December 2011, Officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in....

In a few isolated communities in central Nigeria, some babies are believed to be bad omens. Olusola and Chinwe Stevens run a thriving home f...

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Innocent people are being frozen out of basic banking services – and it all traces back to reforms rushed through after 9/11 By Oliver Bullo...

In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a descent into deadly chaos. Whether moving independently or embedd...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...

In the 50 years since equal rights for women were enshrined in UK law, the campaigners have been reduced to caricatures, or forgotten. But t...

Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may b...

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Among the many people I met, there was a pervasive feeling of hopelessness and a sense that resistance is slowly becoming a memory By Ewen M...

Years of civil war have turned whole areas of the city into rows of empty husks. But after the fall of Assad, Syrians have returned to their...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...

In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almo...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences Written and read by Michael Pol...

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Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is...

Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-...

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When the new premier of the British Virgin Islands said he needed an armed security detail, his chief of police knew trouble was on its way...

The president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White...

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Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily...

A rise of murders is traumatising inmates and staff, and making life harder for staff. But even in prison, violence isn’t inevitable Written...

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Days before we ran interviews with gang leaders describing their alleged ties to Nayib Bukele’s government, we left the country to avoid arr...

During the conflict, the Damascus suburb became a killing field. But some of Assad’s henchmen are still around – and even working with the n...

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The author has been explaining Sichuan cuisine to westerners for decades. But ‘Fu Xia’, as she’s known, has had a profound effect on food lo...

Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals B...