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From the archive: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery

Elvira and her brothers, Ricard and Ramón, were left at a train station in Barcelona aged two,...

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The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa

In the 1980s, South African libertarians set up a deregulated zone that they sold to the world as...

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From the archive – The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Antarctic

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories

The horrors of this conflict, and the lives it has taken, must not be kept hidden. As the bombs...

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The stupidity of AI

Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing...

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From the archive – The girl in the box: the mysterious crime that shocked Germany

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope

For centuries, fictional narratives have used outer difference to telegraph inner monstrosity. As...

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Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’

Having grown up in different cultures with different expectations, my mother and I have often...

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From the archive: Why do people hate vegans?

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal nightmare

Nisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delhi riots. But when he became a witness in court cases...

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‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how the police investigate rape

For the past two years, Betsy Stanko has been leading an unprecedented investigation into why the...

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From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like to an Iraqi

When I was 28, the US arrived in Baghdad. The soldiers were announced as liberators, and their...

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Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patients’ worlds

What do you say to someone whose wife prefers photographs of deceased authors to him?. Help...

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From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended in disaster

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich go for rehab

For the ultra-wealthy and the super-famous, regular therapy won’t do. Help support our...

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From the archive: The real David Attenborough

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’

Gary Hunt is an enigma. He trains with the intensity of a modern athlete, but relaxes like a...

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From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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