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Liz Gooch

Liz Gooch

Liz Gooch is a journalist and editor.

Catherine Russell in the Manhattan building where she performs eight times a week and for which she’s also the general manager.

At 70, Catherine does 180 ‘Marine’ push-ups a day and takes to the New York stage each night

Actor Catherine Russell still performs eight shows of New York’s longest-running play a week – and has missed just four performances in four decades.

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Women’s rights have been quashed since the Taliban retook Afghanistan during August 2021.

‘Gender apartheid’: Why we can’t forget the women of Afghanistan

Afghani men are now permitted to beat their wives as long as it does not cause “broken bones or open wounds”.

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My daughter had high hopes when we moved to the US. She ended up fearing Trump might ‘get’ me

An Australian journalist moved with her family to New York City just before Trump retook power. She reflects on a year with a front-row seat to tumultuous events in the US.

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Three women bear witness in The Testaments

Trump’s war on women enters sinister new phase

“Bounty hunter” laws for doctors who prescribe abortion pills, bans on terminations for child rape victims – what else can the US do to its women?

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Amanda Jones has been the target of online and real-life abuse for three years after speaking out against censorship at a public library meeting in Louisiana.

Amanda carries a taser, mace and a pistol. She’s not a gang member, she’s a US librarian

Amanda Jones spoke out against censorship at her local public library and walked straight into the battle to ban books playing out across the US.

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Volunteers sort donated food items at a food bank in New York.

Postcard from America’s richest city, where hunger and poverty are mainstream

The US shutdown is thawing, but winter is coming to New York, where one in four residents live in poverty alongside the 384,500 millionaires.

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Mark Bryant at his computer.

‘It’s 115 a day, almost every day’: Measuring America’s ‘insanely predictable’ crime

From his home office in Kentucky, a data and systems analyst tracks the grim totality of the country’s firearm incidents – and tallies some disturbing figures.

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. 

As a parent, I’m watching America’s anti-vax madness with horror

Florida’s surgeon-general has compared vaccination to slavery. It’s part of a war on science which may cost many lives.

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NYC is home to an estimated 600,000 dogs.

Bathrobes and special menus: Yes, that pooch in NYC probably is better off than you

In cafes, hotels, museums and on planes, it really is a dog’s life.

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‘It’s a scary climate’: America’s LGBTQ community begins the fightback

Hate attacks, employment discrimination and public harassment … for those who were in the Stonewall riots, it’s all too familiar.

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