North America A “nuclear-to-nuclear showdown”: what Trump must realise about North Korea “You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive,” Trump wrote in his letter cancelling the summit. By Sophie McBain
UK Jordan Peterson and the rise of the cargo cult intellectual When banal life advice comes from your mum, it’s nagging. When it comes from a renegade professor with a Patreon, it’s worth $80,000 a month. By Helen Lewis
Media Daily Mail SCOOP! Anti-Brexit campaigners plan to campaign against Brexit An absolutely devastating exposé. By Media Mole
Media Elon Musk’s plan for media-rating site Pravda is an exercise in doublespeak It is time to call out the “Squealer” of Silicon Valley. By India Bourke
Europe The outrage over a hijab reveals the hypocrisy of French secularism “If we stay at home, they say we are submissive. If we speak up and take action, they say that we are not allowed to do so.” By Pauline Bock
UK Why Corbyn’s sadness about Ken Livingstone’s departure was ill-judged A sharply worded statement – using the words “door”, “hit you” and “way out” – would have helped heal the breach between Labour and the Jewish community. By Stephen Bush
Religion How fitness became a pseudo-religion The Flywheel website details its “Fly-osophy”, warning customers to “get ready to build your limitless body – in and out of the studio”. By Sophie McBain
UK Commons Confidential: Peter Mandelson’s double trouble Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster. By Kevin Maguire
Books Lost boy: the meanings and motivations of Michael Jackson The price for being a child star is one’s childhood By Tom Gatti
Middle East Until the Palestine issue is settled, there’ll always be a crack in Israel’s foundations History shows that Israel’s military occupations cannot be sustained indefinitely. By Jeremy Bowen
UK Why the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry must not drag on too long This is the 68th public inquiry set up by ministers since 1990 – the average time from inquiry announcement to final report is two and a half years. By Peter Wilby
The Staggers Labour is looking to the future in Northern Ireland – but can they escape Corbyn’s past? The party’s message on Brexit and devolution will strike a chord during Corbyn’s visit, but will always be tainted by the messenger’s past. By Patrick Maguire
Politics Right-wing populism is rising – is it too late to save democracy? The populist upheavals in the West are a response to political failure of historic proportions, but its most conspicuous casualties have been liberal and centre-left parties. By Michael Sandel
UK Chris Grayling defies common sense in sticking to the same failed course for our railways Every time Humpty falls off the wall, it gets harder for the Transport Secretary to put him together again; with fewer firms interested in running rebranded rail lines. By Andrew Murray
The Staggers PMQs review: Corbyn returns to safe ground to grill the PM on the NHS But Corbyn's historical line of questioning left important topics unasked and unanswered. By Dulcie Lee
The Staggers Will playing the Brexit blame game boost Gove’s chances at taking the Tory leadership? A leaked cabinet letter paints the Environment Secretary in a very positive light. Presumably because he wrote it. By Stephen Bush
UK Why are “moderates” defending an Isis sex slave joke about Emily Thornberry? The Lewisham East Labour leader Ian McKenzie has been suspended from the party. By Anoosh Chakelian
Books The two faces of Philip Roth Throughout several encounters with the late great novelist, I saw him switch between scabrous provocateur and professorial literary grandee. By Mark Lawson
Q&A Naomi Klein Q&A: “We’re nearing a revolution in understanding our brains” The Canadian author and activist on Anne Frank, the “neurodiversity” revolution and being bugged by Twitter By New Statesman
Books The poet of ordinary days: William Trevor’s quiet artistry Trevor was the literary heir of Chekhov, Maupassant and James Joyce: and one of the great contemporary chroniclers of the human condition. By John Banville
Books Problems: Jade Sharma’s graphic, funny, relentless debut novel Problems is explicit, shocking and sure to incite conversation. By Seán Hewitt
Film 2001: A Space Odyssey is even better in its unvarnished original state The movie is now on release in an “unrestored” 70mm Cinerama roadshow version. By Ryan Gilbey
Music & Theatre From cheap wine to cellos: the orchestra for recovering addicts “When you hold the instrument you can feel the vibration in your stomach.” By John Keenan
Media Elon Musk’s attack on the media shows the attitudes of the new Silicon Valley aristocracy To any elite, the grubby attention of nosey hacks is unwelcome. By Mic Wright
Science & Tech Jordan Peterson says lobsters help to explain why human hierarchies exist – do they? Peterson argues that, like humans, lobsters exist in hierarchies. By Leonor Gonçalves
Internet We shouldn’t let Spotify make moral decisions for us The music streaming service has a new policy on “hate content and hateful conduct”, but who gets to decide what to censor? By Amelia Tait
Social Media Mark Zuckerberg 3 – global legislators nil The Facebook CEO’s testimony before the European Parliament was, if anything, even less edifying than his US congressional appearances. By Nicky Woolf
Feminism Meet the woman making her own robot boyfriend “By building him, I’m exploring my own desire.” By Sian Norris
Nature How new international surveillance technology could save the birds - and us Mobile networks, satellites and solar panels are helping scientists see the world through avian eyes. By India Bourke
Elections What the new coalition means for Italy – and why it matters for the left in Britain The new government’s programme is the first coherent example in Europe of what I’ve called “neoliberalism in one country”. By Paul Mason
Africa No, Katie Hopkins, there is no white genocide in South Africa Every murder in the country is a tragedy. But most don’t happen on white farms, or even in white areas. By Joe Walsh
Politics We are entering the post-democratic age – and it’s up to all of us to stop the strongmen The number of countries that can plausibly be described as democracies is shrinking. By Amol Rajan
Social Media Mark Zuckerberg 3 – global legislators nil The Facebook CEO’s testimony before the European Parliament was, if anything, even less edifying than his US congressional appearances. By Nicky Woolf
Books Vladimir Putin’s politics of victimhood Putin paints Russia as the underdog to keep his citizens, like those of Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four, in a permanent sense of crisis. By Peter Conradi
North America How the right-wing Fox News became Donald Trump’s state propaganda channel The president begins every day by tuning into – and live-tweeting – the channel’s morning show, Fox & Friends. By Mehdi Hasan
