Ed Pilkington
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Beto O'Rourke registers voter after reading about him in the Guardian
After learning about Sebastian Esquivel, a Latino man who felt the Texas race ‘doesn’t really matter’, O’Rourke cold called Esquivel to help him register to vote
Sir Richard Branson suspends Saudi business talks over Khashoggi affair
The Virgin boss was due to discuss government investment in space tourism but other western business figures remain silent on journalist’s disappearance
More than 4,000 mentally ill inmates held in solitary in US – report
A Yale law school survey found that prisoners with mental health problems are kept in isolation for at least 22 hours a day
Brett Kavanaugh's ugly confirmation fight may reverberate for years inside supreme court
Law scholars warn the supreme court could face years of bitter dispute over Kavanaugh’s unresolved sexual assault allegations and his highly partisan testimony
Beto O'Rourke: Is this the man to take down Trump?
If this longtime Republican stronghold fell to the Democrats it would be a seismic cultural shift. But insurgent candidate Beto O’Rourke has an uphill task
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He's charismatic, he's energetic, but can @BetoORourke swing Texas back to the future? I spoke to @KarlRove @lawrence_wright & many others to find out
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Thousands at risk from rightwing push to purge eligible voters from US rolls
Conservative groups such as Pilf publish voters’ details online in what experts say amounts to ‘insidious modern-day intimidation’
Crystal Mason begins prison sentence in Texas for crime of voting
Mason, in a case seen as emblematic of voter suppression, faces over five years in prison for a mistaken vote that was not counted
Acclaimed authors pen letter in protest at 'forced resignation' of Ian Buruma
Joyce Carol Oates, Ian McEwan, and others expressed dismay over Buruma’s departure from the New York Review of Books
Ken Starr: 'There are eerie echoes of the past'
The chief tormentor of Bill Clinton remains unrepentant about his treatment of Monica Lewinsky. But what does he make of the current investigation into Donald Trump?
US inmates mark end of prison strike with push to regain voting rights
After 19 days of protest in prisons across the US, organisers see restoring the right to vote as a means of forwarding prison reform
Bob Woodward's book details Trump's chaotic and dysfunctional White House
Fear is based on hundreds of hours of conversations with key players, according to the author, who uncovered the Watergate scandal
The crime of voting: why this Texas woman is facing five years' prison
Fort Worth is suffering a crisis of democracy – just 6% of electors voted in the last midterms – so why is it targeting two minority women who mistakenly cast ballots?
Major prison strike spreads across US and Canada as inmates refuse food
Prisoners stand against forced labor and other indignities amid reports of action in California, Washington state and Nova Scotia
US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over 'modern slavery'
Organisers say prisoners across the country are expected to refuse to work, hold sit-ins and even stage hunger strikes
'Truth isn't truth': Giuliani trumps 'alternative facts' with new Orwellian outburst
President’s lawyer keeps up attack on Mueller investigation, leading NBC host Chuck Todd to say: ‘This is going to become a bad meme’
John Brennan threatens to sue Trump over stripped security clearance
Ex-CIA director says lawyers have advised him on options as White House pushes back without identifying wrongdoing
Exclusive: suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow
Russian is understood to have had full access to secret data during decade at embassy
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Big breaking Guardian story: Suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow
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A siege. A bomb. 48 dogs. And the black commune that would not surrender
Forty years ago, Philadelphia erupted in one of the most dramatic shoot-outs of the black liberation struggle. Ed Pilkington tells the surreal story of the Move 9 – and what happened to them next
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Astonishing that war could be declared on the streets of Philly just 40 years ago – and that we live with the consequences still
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Born in a cell: the extraordinary tale of the black liberation orphan
Mike Africa Jr has spent 40 years of his life with both parents behind bars. Then one day in June, his life changed. Ed Pilkington tells his story
America's black radicals – a timeline in pictures
They advocated for racial equality and justice in the face of widespread discrimination, but their tactics also involved violence. A look at 40 years of black power