Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly magazine is a round-up of the world news, opinion and long reads that have shaped the week. Inside, the past seven days' most memorable stories are reframed with striking photography and insightful companion pieces, all handpicked from The Guardian and The Observer.

On the hoof

Crypto’s crash, the new Maga bearer and a lens on protest

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

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Stand and be counted

Sinking chips • Devastating losses and broken dreams: how digital currencies such as bitcoin and ‘stablecoins’ went from boom to collapse

Decoding the crypto world

A history lesson: all Ponzi schemes topple eventually, and crypto is no different Robert Reich

Could Ron DeSantis be America’s new Maga bearer?

Is there enough evidence to indict Trump?

Amazon wild west Drugs, logging and fish are big money but life is cheap • Illegal businesses form an interlocking web in the remote region where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, threatening Indigenous communities and local ecology

Donetsk becomes focus of battle for Donbas

Volunteers step up but funds are lacking • Billions in international donations remain untouched while neighbours band together and get on with it

Strictly defence Nato resolve remains fixed on economic interventions

Mob-style killings fuel fears of descent into ‘narco state’

Grey Britain The impact of an ageing population • One in five people in England and Wales are over 65. What are the consequences of th is social and political change?

The Irish ‘Olympics’ that helped shape a new nation

Sea change City plans to charge for emergency rescues

Septic isle How one community got rid of a toxic dump

Xi’s patriotic Hong Kong vision is a hard sell for foreign firms

Hopes rise for end to malaria death toll • The disease is a leading killer of under-fives across Africa. But trials for a new vaccine are showing tremendous promise

Biden feels the force of Democrats’ rage over Roe v Wade

San Antonio residents reel from latest smuggling tragedy

THE PICTURES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD • Some were organised marches, some were spontaneous moments captured for posterity. As governments clamp down on the right to protest, we celebrate some of the images and people that have altered how we see our societies

Feminism is not over, the work goes on everywhere every day Rebecca Solnit

If it cared, TikTok could inform not inflame Kenya’s political debate Odanga Madung

Strikers are providing the opposition Britain desperately needs Andy Beckett

What can the west really do about Xi Jinping’s warped version of democracy?

WRITE TO US

Into the breeches • The Regency period lasted just nine years, so why does it dominate popular culture?

Esteemed director who inspired new generations

A Muppet makeover • The stage version of My Neighbour Totoro has smashed box office records. We meet the Jim Henson puppeteers bringing Studio Ghibli’s beloved film to life

Loot • Apple TV+

In the Black Fantastic • Hayward Gallery, London

Podcast of the week • The Last Bohemians

Ruthless innocence • A heart-rending tragedy set in a dysfunctional rural commune captures the pure sugar-rush of the last days of childhood

Different strokes • Timely biographies of the principal adversaries in Ukraine pit a former comic actor against a brutally pragmatic strongman

Culture club • A celebration of the eccentric pioneers who took anthropology out of university libraries and into the field

BOOKS OF THE MONTH • The best recent poetry

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