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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people By Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian. Read by Vincent Lai. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecut…

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  AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worryi…

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  From the archive: Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its c…

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  My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it f…

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  Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is …

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  From the archive: the butcher’s shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)

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  ‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s lif…

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  From the archive: Are we really prisoners of geography?

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  Power without a throne: how Khalifa Haftar controls Libya

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  Off Duty: The Crime

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  ‘The children are not safe here’: the Nigerian couple fighting infanticide

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  From the archive: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their chi…

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  Access denied: why Muslims worldwide are being ‘debanked’

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  Shock, awe, death, joy and looting: how the Guardian covered the outbreak …

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  From the archive: ‘Iran was our Hogwarts’: my childhood between Tehran and…