In this moment of unprecedented crises, Congress and the Biden administration must respond through unprecedented action

Mothers giving birth with no medical help, babies without milk, one toilet between 500 people – but none of it evokes empathy, writes Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

At times like these, it’s clear that the Sussexes represent a missed opportunity for a UK that needs friends in the world, says writer and broadcaster Nels Abbey

Without urgent action, families are seeing nothing more than pain now and pain later. There is a way through, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

A segment of working-class people in our country still believes Donald Trump defends their interests. We must win them over

When we lost our baby boy, I saw the NHS at its best. The Conservatives can’t be trusted with it, says comedian Rob Delaney

Can we really say Britain has a modernised monarchy when archaic titles are being handed out as if it were 1348, not 2024, asks former Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker

It may well not be Warren who wins the Democratic nomination, but whoever does will be campaigning on her ideas

The government’s back-door amendments to the policing bill are tyrannical. We should be on the streets in our millions, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The street protests might be less well attended now, but resentment against the authorities is still growing, says Hong Kong-based journalist Ilaria Maria Sala

Of course Keir Starmer is cautious in the runup to an election – Labour can’t change Britain from the opposition benches, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The controversy over Omid Scobie’s new book has reignited a depressing discussion about mixed-race identity, says writer Georgina Lawton

Clearly, chasing the vegan pound is smart business, says naturalist Chris Packham

Your losing mentality and lack of Brexit leadership mean I won’t return, says Alastair Campbell, former communications director for Tony Blair

What may be the first piece of bipartisan legislation to pass is one protecting the feelings of concrete, says the Secret Barrister

A decision from the home secretary is imminent. Extradition would set a disastrous precedent, says writer Duncan Campbell

Beijing has lost its patience with the former colony. Its repression may ignite fresh civil society fury

Since the anti-sedition law the territory has entered uncharted waters, says writer Ilaria Maria Sala

Opponents of the national security law have been reduced to holding blank sheets of paper to avoid instant arrest

As I watched the police raid Apple Daily’s newsroom, the scale of restrictions on journalism became clear, says Fung Wai-kong, managing editor of the English language edition

My ancestors could always point to Labour policies that transformed ordinary lives. I cannot say the same, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Doctors are told not to cause alarm over coronavirus, social media posts are deleted and vital information is dismissed as rumour, says a Chinese writer

We seek peace in Gaza, Ukraine, Yemen, Sudan, the DRC and elsewhere, but we’re ignored. History will damn the warmongers, says Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the Labour party

Letter: Ohtaka Masato of Japan’s foreign affairs ministry says his country’s flag should not be banned at the 2020 Olympics

People in Northern Ireland are being forced, once again, to choose sides, says Irish journalist Dearbhail McDonald

The problem isn’t that war is hell – the problem is that war has become mundane. Why does it feel like 2003 all over again?

After decades of chaos, what Andy Burnham and campaigners have achieved could be a blueprint for the rest of the UK, says Cat Hobbs, founder of campaign group We Own It

Nations that claim to be defenders of the faith offer no protest to the concentration camps

The threat to our neighbours’ homes is the latest chapter in a campaign to erase the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem, says academic Lucy Garbett

Letters: I am an NHS worker who chose to be vaccinated, but I oppose it being made compulsory

Since I was forced to flee my city, I’ve continued my activism for democracy from the UK, says Nathan Law, a politician and activist from Hong Kong

Whoever wins in the confrontation between the former prime minister and the army, both sides are to blame for trying to gag criticism, says journalist Hamid Mir

Nothing says ‘monumental’ like commemorative mugs, a tarragon quiche and 4,000 articles about two California residents, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Real life is too messy to be boiled down to equations, says mathematician Hannah Fry

Recent revelations cast a light on a long and unedifying history, says Phillip Hall, author of Royal Fortune: Tax, Money and the Monarchy

If we replace ‘sex’ with ‘gender’ as a way of thinking about ourselves, it will be harder to tackle sex-based oppression, says Guardian journalist Susanna Rustin

Locals desperate for lower bills, jobs and economic revival have been seduced by this plan, but they – and we – will suffer, says Green Party MP Caroline Lucas

Was Bristol University giving into ‘woke ideology’, or simply cutting the least good song from an overlong ceremony, asks Guardian contributor Tim Dowling

Thanks to the party’s boycott, public services are collapsing and there has been no government at Stormont for nearly two years, says political commentator Sarah Creighton

Why is the government intent on ruining our world-leading TV industry, asks Royal Television Society vice-president Armando Iannucci

I cycled 5,000 miles this year, and the driver abuse, intimidation and terrible infrastructure has to change, says Adam Becket of Cycling Weekly

Growing up in San Francisco, the loudest, proudest queer town around, made it clear to me that gender was what you made of it

Privatisation and austerity have decimated Britain’s bus routes. The Manchester mayor is right to intervene, says Labour’s former executive director of policy, Andrew Fisher

Labour’s leadership candidates have placed themselves on one side of a complex debate

Our failures aren’t to do with Brexit, but our dull tracks. Maybe Dua Lipa’s team can shine a light on where we’re going wrong

Sadly, keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV, says actor Rowan Atkinson

Being a public health expert during the pandemic has been disheartening. When the next one comes, we must do better, says public health expert Devi Sridhar

The PM is keen to show India as the ‘mother of democracy’, but this is one of the most undemocratic periods in its history, says the journalist Rana Ayyub

Weakening the courts, limiting protest, hobbling the elections regulator. If another country did this, what would we call it, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

‘Potential defendants’ are sweating (if they can) over whether Virginia Giuffre’s settlement with Epstein will protect them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

This is about so much more than wallpaper. A pattern of lying, betrayal and callousness is ruining lives, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The DUP thought Brexit was a chance to get a hard border back, but now they cling to the vestiges of their old dominance, says Irish writer and journalist Susan McKay

A slew of employment tribunals shows many women have been wrongly disciplined for expressing beliefs on gender and sex, says Guardian writer Susanna Rustin

In public their MPs say he’s doing an ‘incredible’ job. But, after all the U-turns, in private the false bonhomie is failing, says Guardian columnist Marine Hyde

Editorial: This country will not profit from pursuing a reckless Brexit while hitching ourselves to Donald Trump’s Iranian misadventure

I fought my school for the right to wear the hair I was born with. Now I work as an ambassador for change, says BSc student Ruby Williams

Editorial: Four months of fighting have seen massacres, sexual violence and attacks on medical facilities and refugee camps. The culture of impunity must end

No matter what the prime minister does, no matter the consequences, his devotees line up to heatedly excuse it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

There are no winners, only losers, in this profound crisis in our politics

The public, MPs and one-time allies in cabinet want him out. Johnson’s decision to face them all down is a landmark in our political history, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Anything other than stopping Brexit was written off as both disastrous for the country and morally untenable, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The mixed reaction to her speaking up proves that there’s a long way to go before women feel comfortable sharing their pain, says women’s health expert Zeynep Gurtin

The prime minister has too much power over appointments, as we have seen this week, says the lord speaker Norman Fowler

Editorial: Flawed elections confirm Europe is being strung along by a government intent on an authoritarian, ethno-nationalist agenda

A lifeline for the elderly and disabled people, public toilet provision has dwindled, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

As a shy mixed-race girl, learning Welsh gave me a gift of identity. But the 2021 census assumes Welshness means whiteness, says Bajan-Welsh singer-songwriter Kizzy Crawford

The Tories have created a ‘crisis’, and their electoral bill will have a disproportionate impact on disadvantaged groups, says Zubaida Haque, deputy director of the Runnymede Trust

No matter who’s in the White House, their task is the same: fight the evil that is all of us who aren’t American, says novelist Mohammed Hanif

As Britain’s first black guardsman I endured years of abuse. Now it saddens me to learn there was a royal household colour bar, says Richard Stokes

The corporation needs clear and consistent rules. But more than anything it must learn to stop cowering before politicians, says writer and broadcaster John Kampfner

Judicial review offers justice to ordinary Britons and must be protected, says transparency campaigner Gina Miller

Editorial: The protest on the streets of London will show that the prime minister cannot define the public. They have a will and opinions of their own

Ironically, rightwing politicians have invented a zombie ‘postmodernism’ that cannot be killed by facts, says Charlotte Lydia Riley

Pink v blue gender definitions are hardening, and it’s doing everyone a disservice, says Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman

The government promised us an employment bill to protect women at work. Where is it, asks Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner

I’ve been taken off air and others have been beaten up. Why is the prime minister not standing with us? asks journalist Hamid Mir

There was precedent for a commissioner determined to root out misbehaviour. Failure to follow it cost her the top job, says former Guardian crime reporter Sandra Laville

The polls may look good for the party, but those who saw real excitement in the Corbyn years know something is missing, says Andrew Fisher, Labour’s former executive director of policy

By refusing access to elected Catalan MEPs, the European parliament is going against all that it stands for, says Alfred Bosch, Catalonia’s minister for foreign affairs

The timing of Priti Patel’s bill to boost policing of protests couldn’t be worse, says the former shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti

Andrew wasn’t just a bad apple: he comes from a royal orchard of them. It’s time Britain matured as a republic

It’s time to pass a law to make sure no bereaved family is ever again callously made to relive their trauma in court, says Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester

Live shows should allow for self-expression, catharsis and abandon. It’s the boorishness and selfishness that need to stop, says music writer Simon Price

Once, she was a breath of fresh air. Now media critics and ‘experts’ are having a field day

It is wise to hold back in a political culture that treats even dysfunctional Conservative rule as a benchmark of credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr