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The planet’s economist: has Kate Raworth found a model for sustainable living?

Her hit book Doughnut Economics laid out a path to a greener, more equal society. But can she...

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‘I knew the terror of lost time’: how my father’s dementia echoed my own alcoholism

When my father began to forget words, and then basic skills, I sensed his fear. After my own...

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From the archive: Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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The backlash: how slavery research came under fire

Read more in this series: Cotton Capital More and more institutions are commissioning...

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Can humans ever understand how animals think?

A flood of new research is overturning old assumptions about what animal minds are and aren’t...

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From the archive: History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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The strange survival of Guinness World Records

For more than half a century, one organisation has been cataloguing all of life’s superlatives....

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Out of our minds: opium’s part in imperial history

How a mind-altering, addictive substance was used as a weapon by one empire to subdue another....

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From the archive: The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us

Landfill sites have swallowed many a beauty spot along the Thames estuary in the past 50 years....

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Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy

The Clipper round the world yacht race was created for amateurs seeking the ultimate challenge....

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From the archive: How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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The war on Japanese knotweed

Once hailed as a ‘handsome’ import, this most rampant of plants has come to be seen as a...

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Erdogan’s earthquake: how years of bad government made a disaster worse

Despite vows to tighten the rules after the 1999 quake, cronyism and complacency have undermined...

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From the archive: The man in the iron lung

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world

Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer...

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The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysteries of the cosmos?

Since being laid low with the virus more than a year ago, Catherine Heymans can only operate in...

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From the archive: Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals...

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‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus

A series of financial scandals have rocked Italy’s most glamorous club. But is the trouble at...

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