8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8418 Meet Lauren Underwood, the 31-year-old Democrat hoping to shake up Illinois politics The registered nurse would be the first woman and the first African-American to represent her district. By Sophie McBain
8320, 8324 Kanye West’s praise for Trump reveals the appeal of the daddy dictator West said he “didn’t have a lot of male energy in my home.” The implication being that Donald Trump could give him what he so desperately craved. By Dave Schilling
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416 FBI Director Wray contradicts Trump: Kavanaugh investigation was “limited” by White House Testifying before the Senate, Christopher Wray confirmed that the investigation was “limited in scope,” despite claims to the contrary. By Nicky Woolf
8268, 8275 Leader: All over the world, the free press is under attack In Britain, both left and right are culpable. Jeremy Corbyn denounces the “mainstream media” in speeches, just as Donald Trump does. By New Statesman
8415, 8416, 8417 Nikki Haley’s advice to an anonymous official offers a clue to her resignation The US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will be leaving her post at the end of the year. By Sophie McBain
8268, 8320, 8325 Brazil is set to elect a fascist as president, and business is on board It is our generation’s wake up call. By Paul Mason
8268, 8275 How austerity broke Britain – and how we can recover After ten years of wrongheaded and brutal spending cuts, Keynes’s warning that bad economics produces political extremism is more important than ever. By Robert Skidelsky
8277, 8279 Making China great again: Xi Jinping’s troubled nationalist revival China’s leader points to external enemies but his biggest problems are at home. By Isabel Hilton
8277, 8330, 8283 Talking about my regeneration: why it’s OK not to like the new Doctor Who After more than a decade in which I counted down the minutes to a new episode, I encountered the most terrifying thing Doctor Who has yet thrown at me: boredom. By Jonn Elledge
8268, 8275, 8330 Commons Confidential: Philip Hammond’s pH imbalance Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster. By Kevin Maguire
8277, 8283 Netflix’s Maniac is a moving, surreal, sharp take on themes from trauma to capitalism Emma Stone and Jonah Hill offer fresh, convincing performances as two people who see themselves as fundamentally broken. By Anna Leszkiewicz
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8418 Meet Lauren Underwood, the 31-year-old Democrat hoping to shake up Illinois politics The registered nurse would be the first woman and the first African-American to represent her district. By Sophie McBain
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416 FBI Director Wray contradicts Trump: Kavanaugh investigation was “limited” by White House Testifying before the Senate, Christopher Wray confirmed that the investigation was “limited in scope,” despite claims to the contrary. By Nicky Woolf
8415, 8416, 8417 Nikki Haley’s advice to an anonymous official offers a clue to her resignation The US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will be leaving her post at the end of the year. By Sophie McBain
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416 Without Our Consent: The Kavanaugh hearings show how power operates in patriarchy The Kavanaugh hearings show how power operates in patriarchy. By Laurie Penny
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416 Despite protests, Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court. So what next? Both Democrat and Republican supporters have been fired-up by one of the most divisive nomination battles in American history. By Nicky Woolf
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8417 Third woman comes forward with disturbing allegations against Brett Kavanaugh Julie Swetnick alleges that Kavanaugh was there when she was “gang raped” at a party in 1982. By Nicky Woolf
8277, 8280 First Man has vivid, luminous cinematography, but it’s hard to say what it’s really about It’s hard to discern Damien Chazelle’s motive for making this Neil Armstrong biopic, his first film since La La Land. By Ryan Gilbey
8277, 8278 Banksy’s art-shredding stunt was fishier than a tin of anchovies But as performance art it is undoubtedly his masterpiece. By Michael Prodger
8268, 8277, 8279, 8320, 8324 From Miss Trunchbull to Donald Trump: why Matilda is the perfect icon for resistance A statue of the Roald Dahl character defying the president points to reasons to be hopeful even when it feels as though little stands in the way of barbaric, vainglorious power. By Holly Thomas
8277, 8279 The agony and the destiny: Friedrich Nietzsche’s descent into madness Nietzsche was overlooked for most of his career. By the time his genius was discovered, his health had rapidly deteriorated. By Ray Monk
8300, 8303 Shane Dawson and the rise of the YouTube episodic series While Netflix and Amazon have reigned over millennial, online-hosted series, YouTuber Shane Dawson is making his own episodic content with astonishing success. By Sarah Manavis
8300, 8362, 8303 Facebook’s data breach shows us how the internet is broken - and we’re making it worse Online data security is fundamentally broken, and the more we link accounts the worse it will get. By James Ball
8268, 8296, 8277, 8299 Forget Hygge, the Nordic concept of Friluftsliv could help those suffering from anxiety In Sweden, unwinding in the outdoors is considered a national treasure. And it’s spreading: GPs in Shetland now hand out RSPB leaflets alongside prescriptions. By Mark Maudsley
8300, 8301, 8302 James Murdoch could become Tesla chair – and it will make us miss Elon Musk The simulation is broken, please let us out. By Sarah Manavis
8268, 8329, 8277, 8299, 8320, 8323 I didn’t find a fix for climate change In Norway’s fjords – but I did find a will to act Carbon capture and storage is still controversial, yet the technology is bringing key players from politics and big industry to the same table. By India Bourke
8277, 8282, 8300, 8303 The alt-right are devastated that Taylor Swift endorsed a Democrat “They took her from us and turned her into one of their brain dead zombies.” By Sarah Manavis
8277, 8279 Democracy Hacked: how big tech poisoned politics The digital age was supposed to be democratic, but under Google, Facebook and Twitter it has become a quest for profit at any cost. By Steven Poole
8268, 8320, 8325 Brazil is set to elect a fascist as president, and business is on board It is our generation’s wake up call. By Paul Mason
8268 Why national populism is here to stay Those yearning for a new liberal centrist politics are going to be disappointed – but can they offer an alternative? By Matthew Goodwin
8320, 8321, 8415, 8416 The murder of Jamal Khashoggi shows the danger of Trump’s anti-press rhetoric The president has consistently referred to press as “the enemy of the people”. With horrifying inevitability, people are taking him at his word. By Nicky Woolf
8320, 8322 Moon Jae-in’s diplomatic dance towards peace with North Korea South Korea’s president has to negotiate the competing demands of Trump, Kim Jong-un and China. By Lawrence Freedman
8320, 8321 In Idlib, a father’s dreams hang on the Turkey-Russia deal The last rebel stronghold in Syria has survived – for now. By Anchal Vohra
8320, 8323 How Tony Blair is still revered as the saviour of the Kosovan Albanians Many Kosovan children, now aged 18, were named “Tonibler” by grateful parents in honour of our former PM. By Phil Jones
