Life on the US-Mexican border
What future for the ‘split city’ of El Paso-Juárez?
One side has been called the world’s most violent city. The other, the safest in its nation. Schoolchildren commute daily between the ‘binational’ cities of Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas – but with Trump in office, will border divisions grow?
Five dystopias that reflect Trump’s US
‘The Handmaid’s Tale sees women’s every behaviour controlled by the state’
George Orwell’s tale of doublespeak and Big Brother, Nineteen Eighty-Four, is flying off the shelves after the president’s inauguration. But other imaginary worlds are closer to reality
Is Britain ready for everyday nudity?
There’s naked yoga, naked dating, naked dining. But is it OK to take your clothes off in public? There’s only one way to find out...
How doctors measure pain
From the shortcomings of subjective scales to breakthrough research
Sickening, gruelling or frightful: suffering is difficult to describe and impossible to see. So how can doctors tell how much it hurts?
The low-cal sausage sending dieters into a frenzy
Porky Lights: catch them if you can
We are living through the sausage equivalent of Beatlemania as slimmers bulk-buy and fight in the aisles for the last box of the ‘holy grail of sausages’
Pop's dancing mascots
Pills, thrill and maracas … Bez & Co explain their craft
When Bez started bouncing around with Happy Mondays, no one could believe their eyes. But he wasn’t the first ‘inhouse dancer’. Three legendary totems reveal how there’s more to it than popping pills and shaking a tambourine
Christina Ricci: ‘I thought I’d do better as I got older’
Where three decades in the film industry had led
The once child star has struggled to land grown-up roles, so now she has created her own. She talks about her angry teens, Hollywood creeps – and bringing Zelda, the hard-partying wife of F Scott Fitzgerald, to the screen
The secrets of people who never get sick
‘My mum didn’t tolerate illness’
Some lucky folk claim to never get a cold or take days off work. Can we become more like them or is it all genetic? Do vitamin supplements work? Or can we use mind or matter to control our heath?
The 20 best one-pot recipes
Observer Food Monthly’s recipe selection
Dig into food that’s high on flavour and low on effort (and washing up). Magic spaghetti, a lunchtime tortilla, and even a whole roast chicken. Enjoy part 1 here and look out for links to parts 2, 3 and 4 at the top of each article
