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1. 'White widow': public enemy No 1 | Jamie Gilham

25 Sep 2013:

Jamie Gilham: The very normality of Samantha Lewthwaite's background provokes, disturbs and fascinates

2. Is Facebook sharing making us more vain? | Joe Turnbull

25 Sep 2013: Joe Turnbull: Facebook is set up, through its tools and ideology of 'sharing', to encourage users in a relentless PR campaign for themselves

3. University reforms: Australia should be bubbling with rage | Luke Mansillo

26 Sep 2013:

Luke Mansillo: The Abbott opposition repeatedly claimed there would be no changes to higher education; the government is now considering reintroducing a cap on university places. Australians should be appalled

4. With Angela Merkel's Germany at the helm, Europe will remain a tortoise | Timothy Garton Ash

25 Sep 2013: Timothy Garton Ash: Don't expect much more from Merkel and Brussels – but the US and Chinese competition has problems too

5. UK detention of Reprieve activist consistent with NSA's view of drone opponents as 'threats' and 'adversaries' | Glenn Greenwald

25 Sep 2013:

Glenn Greenwald: A top secret NSA document provides context for yesterday's abusive detention of Baraa Shiban

6. 'Normal sex' is not having sex in a box in front of a studio audience | Bridget Christie

24 Sep 2013: Bridget Christie: If we need Channel 4's Sex Box to tell us how to have sex, we're better off not having it

7. Ted Cruz, Obamacare circus performer | Gary Younge

25 Sep 2013:

Gary Younge: His pseudo-filibuster over defunding the ACA was doomed to fail, yet the Tea Party sees him as a lion. In truth, he's a clown

8. Forget Damian McBride. Another book matters more to Ed Miliband this week | Martin Kettle

25 Sep 2013: Martin Kettle: David Sainsbury's tome on progressive capitalism offers the blueprint for Labour's social justice strategy

9. Steve Bell on Ed Miliband 'sick and tired of being a weed' at Labour party conference - video

25 Sep 2013:

Steve Bell explains how he took inspiration from an old Charles Atlas ad in comic-books for his cartoon of Ed Miliband's conference speech in Brighton

10. Should there be restrictions on wearing the niqab? - five-minute video debate

23 Sep 2013:

Columnists Nabila Ramdani and Joan Smith discuss whether any restrictions should apply to the wearing of the Islamic full-face veil in public

11. American gun use is out of control. Shouldn't the world intervene? | Henry Porter

21 Sep 2013:

Henry Porter: The death toll from firearms in the US suggests that the country is gripped by civil war

12. Party politics needs to loosen up – the rest of us have | Suzanne Moore

25 Sep 2013:

Suzanne Moore: I don't want to be governed by people who have never made mistakes, never had the 'wrong' kind of sex or taken drugs. I propose Uslut, a party that actually knows how to party

13. To reform the NSA, fire officials who lie | James Goodale

25 Sep 2013:

James Goodale: I saw this at first hand over the Pentagon Papers case: the NSA has a culture of lying. That should be Obama's first concern

14. Qatar: the building site from hell | Editorial

25 Sep 2013:

Editorial: What really shocks is the thought that the whole sordid system of debt bondage and forced labour is legal

15. The solution to Australia's woes: persuade people that there is no crisis | Josh Bornstein

26 Sep 2013:

Josh Bornstein: Just as it did with asylum seekers, the Liberal party has relentlessly inculcated a sense of economic crisis and emergency where none exists. Progressives must fight this

16. The painful lesson of the Cherice Moralez rape trial | Hadley Freeman

3 Sep 2013:

Hadley Freeman: Misogyny is now at the point where girls as young as 11 are being portrayed as voracious temptresses

17. Michael Douglas blasts the US penal system at the Emmys. He's exactly right | Sadhbh Walshe

24 Sep 2013:

Sadhbh Walshe: The war on drugs has caused the US prison population to explode while doing almost nothing to eradicate drug use

18. Could Tony Abbott be more conservative than the Pope? | Erin Handley

25 Sep 2013:

Erin Handley: The idea that Catholicism is distinct from conservatism has new currency after Pope Francis' recent interview. The Australian left should engage with Catholicism's radical nature, not dismiss it

19. Steve Bell on fat cats and firefighters – cartoon

25 Sep 2013:

Energy companies have reacted furiously to Ed Miliband's plans to freeze household bills, while the Fire Brigades Union has threatened to strike over a change in the retirement age

20. Obamacare: stop listening to the partisan hacks | Heather Long

25 Sep 2013:

Heather Long: Most Americans are unsure about Obamacare, and that's OK. Here are five key areas to help people make up their own minds

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