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.

Editor’s notes

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Global report • United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

TRUMP V THE WORLD • The US president’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs unleashed global chaos, from factories in Vietnam to the international stock markets. What happens now?

Master plan or mayhem? • The fallout from the US protectionist policies

Devastation day • ‘In economic terms, the tariffs make no sense at all’

Families tell of grief and fury at IDF massacre of paramedics

Qatargate • A scandal too far even for under-pressure Netanyahu?

Eyewitness Myanmar

Divides deepen • Public cheers impeachment of Yoon, but the saga is not over

Global right seizes on Le Pen case to drive backlash

Will Just Stop Oil just start using new tactics? • The controversial protest group is ’hanging up the hi-vis’ – but the future direction of climate activism is less clear

Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies • A law saying women must be accompanied by a man in public restricts access to healthcare and adds to unnecessary deaths, say experts

Girl power • The women who light up Karachi

Secrets of Success The church that served a plantation • An overgrown site yields up artefacts that tell the area’s history of enslavement and revolt against British colonists

Under review Is constant feedback changing our brains? • We live in a culture of mutual surveillance, asked to leave ratings for every purchase, meal or hair appointment. What is it doing to us?

Exit Elon? • Musk may be on his way out but the bromance will remain

The dogs sniffing out nests of endangered bumblebees

JEREMY DELLER’S ENORMOUS, COLLABORATIVE, UNSELLABLE ART • Instead of making things, artist Jeremy Deller makes things happen. And this year, he plans to unleash his most daring public artwork yet

Trapped in Trump’s America • Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US, she was stopped, interrogated and locked up as an illegal alien. Now back home in the UK, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it.

John Harris • Donald Trump won’t stop me visiting the US – a country I love

Patrick Barkham • It’s heroic, hardy and microscopic: meet the invertebrate of the year

Nesrine Malik • Our moral outrage won’t let politicians normalise the war

The GuardianView • As US empire ignites tariff imperialism, others must reduce their dependency

Opinion Letters

Future proof • After years of creating dark, thought-provoking TV, Charlie Brooker is changing it up in the new, star-studded series of Black Mirror

‘She didn’t just look like us – she was singing our songs’ • Zadie Smith was 12 years old when she saw Tracy Chapman captivate a massive crowd at 1988’s Free Nelson Mandela concert. Her astonishing debut album has mesmerised the novelist ever since

Culture Reviews

On reflection • A road trip proves a compelling vehicle to examine the journey of a man trying to figure out the difficult middle passage of his life

The gossip game • From Anna Wintour’s table manners to Oscar party hijinks, the former editor of Vanity Fair shares a trove of juicy insider stories

Yoko, oh no • The avant garde artist and musician is an apt subject for an in-depth biography, but this is merely...