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.

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Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Global report • United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

The new American psyche • The next Trump era heralds a more inward-looking US where resentment has replaced idealism and nobody wins without someone else losing. Is this the end of the American dream as we know it?

Trump 2.0 • What can America expect from

New world order How will Trump reshape US foreign policy?

Money talks • Is the world’s richest man now Trump’s shadow vice-president?

The last laugh • ‘Weird’ JD Vance gets serious as he passes the ruthlessness test

From power to civil war • Bereft party turns on Biden as wilderness beckons

Spotlight Cop out Odour of oil and return of Trump hang heavy over summit

UNDERCOVER STING • CEO ‘agrees to fossil fuel deals’

Veil lifted West Bank weighs up Trump win • Many argue things cannot get any worse but some say US result could add unpredictability to despair

Gulf state suspends role as Gaza talks mediator

Why has the government collapsed and what comes next? • Olaf Scholz’s sacking of his finance minister has plunged Europe’s largest economy into considerable uncertainty

False claims and hoaxes surge as floods recede

Turks turn to home comforts of Atatürk’s secular rule

Piecing back together the picture portraits of Ans Westra

Small wonders Unravelling the paradoxes of plankton • Scientists are using technology to sequence the DNA of microscopic marine life for the first time – to help us learn more about ourselves

The hospital on the frontline of unstoppable gang warfare

Battle lines Pyongyang’s Russia entente is a dilemma for Xi Jinping

When adult children cut the cord • Grownups who cut off contact with their family are often trying to break away after a traumatic childhood. But sometimes the estrangement can be totally unexpected for parents who really believe they’ve done their best By Gaby Hinsliff

Flower power • Once a modest sign of remembrance for the war dead, the poppy has increasingly been used as a prop for performative patriotism, and a tool that helps to gauge others’ loyalty to an ideal of national sacrifice

Opinion Trump’s return is bleak for America and the world

Trump unleashed will be even worse than last time’s dress rehearsal Jonathan Freedland

John Harris • The Republican victory has revealed how much the left is despised

Paul Taylor • Coalition’s collapse will delight Trump – and his European friends

Opinion Letters

Culture ‘I have found unexpected beauty amid the brute strength’ Sportswriters and arts critics swap jobs

Reviews

Top of the flops • A hilarious account of f ilm’s most stunning failures takes in hubris, stupidity and a menagerie of disastrous animals

Holy moly • A Canadian rightwing psychologist’s reading of the Bible as a moral rulebook attempts to meld interpretation and myth into reality

Last words • Diagnosed with cancer in his 40s, the aid worker looks back on his life and offers advice on facing death

BOOKS OF THE MONTH • The best recent science fiction, horror and fantasy

I’m insecure after becoming deaf. How can I regain my confidence?

STEPHEN COLLINS

Seed drill: what can I make with tahini beyond just hummus?

№ 293 Mozzarella, spinach...