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

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive? By Marcus Haraldsson. Read by Diana Bermudez. 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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  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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  What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

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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…