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Catholicism in America

The gods of Fifth Avenue

As president and pope face off, a pilgrimage between Trump Tower and St Patrick’s Cathedral goes to the heart of American faith – and delusion

By Megan Nolan

Lebanon

‘An echo chamber of violence’

French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri has petitioned French authorities to investigate the strike that killed his parents in Beirut as a war crime. It could set an important precedent, Isabel Coles reports

AI psychosis

Your chatbot friend

AI-driven delusions are on the rise, ranging from romantic attachment to paranoia. Patricia Clarke and Owen Thomas find that the design of chatbots appears to be linked to a growing wave of psychiatric emergencies and deaths

Euphoria

An epic comedown

Returning with lurid, vapid and dull storylines, Sam Levinson’s magnificent show about waster teenagers has become a waste of major talent, Barbara Ellen writes

For today

How to stop a generation being ‘ravaged by predatory algorithms’

Social media

John Nash

How to stop a generation being ‘ravaged by predatory algorithms’

Sudan

Fred Harter

‘By knife or by gun’: why have we forgotten Sudan’s suffering?

V&A East Museum is the London institution's cooler, younger outpost

Architecture

Rowan Moore

V&A East Museum is the London institution's cooler, younger outpost

The girlboss was a fallacy and so is the trad wife

Women

Róisín Lanigan

The girlboss was a fallacy and so is the trad wife

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Unjust: how the Court of Appeal failed an innocent man

Ceri Thomas revisits the appalling case of Peter Sullivan, jailed for 38 years for a murder he did not commit and offered no apology when finally released. Why does the court work so slowly? Why is it allowed to mark its own homework, and why is it so resistant to reform?

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