Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly magazine is a round-up of the world news, opinion and long reads that have shaped the week. Inside, the past seven days' most memorable stories are reframed with striking photography and insightful companion pieces, all handpicked from The Guardian and The Observer.

Eyewitness United States

A week in the life of the world • The world according to AOC, concrete lessons and the secrets of dust

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

United Kingdom

In 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became America’s youngest-ever congresswoman and part of the celebrated ‘Squad’ of House progressives. Now an established Democratic force, she talks about the climate crisis, Trump and misogyny in the US ‘We are in a moment of generational change’

For the ages The question everyone is avoiding: how old is too old for power?

The evacuees who can’t take Russian shelling any more

War gains Military breaches Russian line of defence

How Russia cherishes its propaganda friends in Italian media

Group therapy Modi’s G20 call to arms can’t halt retreat of globalisation

Eyewitness Venezuela

Sunak under pressure over failing concrete in schools

Concrete matters What is Raac and why is it forcing schools to shut buildings?

The oil catastrophe averted by crowdfunding • When civil war broke out in 2014, a leaky tanker in the Red Sea became a crisis point – prompting a remarkable UN-led international public rescue effort

Is it time to stop using polar bears as climate icons? • The warming planet is causing steep declines among some of the world’s 26,000 wild polar bears, but the picture is complex, say experts

An ‘extinct’ prehistoric bird returns to the wild

The battle to staunch the deadly rise in youth crime rates

Quake fear A century on, Tokyo braces for the next Great Kantō

‘Be flexible and brave’ Is there a future-proof job? • Machine learning is likely to radically change the world of work. What careers should the next generation be pursuing?

THE BOSS FROM HELL? • A professor’s great fear about AI

Alabama under fire for ‘human experiment’ on death row

Fifty years after coup, a plan to look for victims of Pinochet

The Melilla massacre • How a Spanish enclave in Africa became a deadly flashpoint in keeping migrants out of Fortress Europe

Dust • Few of us give a second thought to the tiny floating particles all around us. But if we pay close attention, we can see the biggest things – time, death and life itself – within them

Blasphemy law in wake of Qur’an burnings is no answer to bigotry

We must confront what lies behind our urge to travel – and rethink it

Politicians, not curators, are to blame for the British Museum’s woes

Like all despots, Putin happily rewrites history to suit his own purpose

Letters

The graduate • She was a TV child star – then became a pop phenomenon. With her new second album, the singer is trying to make sense of her young life

The never ending story • Christian Marclay’s 24-hour clock made of movie clips was a sensation on release back in 2010. Can Doors, a looped montage of screen stars entering and leaving rooms, beat it?

Reviews

Escape from Kabul • The shameful story of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, balanced by the hope of a family who fled the Taliban for a new life

The unravelling • Ireland falls under the grip of a fascist regime in this alarming Booker-longlisted dystopia with shades of Cormac McCarthy

OED sound system • A lexicographer uncovers the ranks of word-loving nerds who contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary

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