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The 2010s: what just happened?

At the end of a tumultuous decade, writers reflect on the developments of the past 10 years, and how they will be remembered by history

1 January 2020

  • Migrants aboard a dinghy off the Libyan coast, June 2018.

    The refugee ‘crisis’ showed Europe’s worst side to the world

    Hsiao-Hung Pai
    Those who survived the treacherous Mediterranean crossing were met with racism, fear and incarceration, says journalist and author Hsiao-Hung Pai

31 December 2019

  • Xi Jinping proposes a toast at the welcome banquet for the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, 26 April 2019.

    This decade belonged to China. So will the next one

    Martin Jacques
  • The leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias (third left), and his team celebrate election results in December 2015.

    It should have been a great decade for the European left – what happened?

    Cédric Durand

30 December 2019

  • US President Donald Trump gestures during a Make America Great Again rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 27 2019

    This was the decade the US’s self-serving myths fell apart

    Aziz Rana
    The country’s beliefs in exceptionalism and meritocracy came up against Donald Trump and his politics of exclusion, says Cornell University law professor Aziz Rana

29 December 2019

  • Rebecca Solnit

    How a decade of disillusion gave way to people power

    Rebecca Solnit
    From Black Lives Matter and #MeToo to school climate strikes, the power of popular movements can no longer be ignored, says journalist and author Rebecca Solnit

27 December 2019

  • Ian Jack

    The union survived this decade. But only just

    Ian Jack
    In 2010, Labour’s hold on Scotland looked unshakeable. Ten years on, the SNP dominates and the union is in crisis, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

26 December 2019

  • A worker rides on his bicycle in Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel.

    Science made astonishing progress. It was also hijacked by those with an axe to grind

    Laura Spinney
    Attacks and scepticism are on the rise, even as leaps are made in fields such as gene editing, AI, and space, says science writer Laura Spinney

25 December 2019

  • Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, testifying at a House energy and commerce hearing in Washington DC, April 2018

    The tech giants dominated the decade. But there’s still time to rein them in

    Jay Owens
    Google, Amazon and Facebook moved at a scale and speed governments couldn’t match. Now regulators are trying to catch up, says writer and researcher Jay Owens

23 December 2019

  • Michelle Obama at a bookstore signing

    This decade we’ve become obsessed with reading – and writing – about ourselves

    Rebecca Watson
    It’s no longer just celebrities whose lives we want to read about it, says novelist Rebecca Watson
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