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The country’s finest male intellectuals – including some in positions of power – are weighing in on the matter

Should women in the US have the right to vote? You’d be forgiven for assuming this particular issue was sorted out quite a long time ago. But, because we live in hell, it seems the question is once again up for debate.

Not by women, though; the fairer sex is obviously too emotional for such muscular discussion. So please sit this one out, ladies, and listen to what America’s finest male intellectuals have to say.

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist

The slain head of Turning Point USA stoked campus culture wars and ‘treated faculty and students as enemies’

Charlie Kirk, the far-right activist killed this week while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University, never graduated from the community college he briefly attended. But his lack of a degree didn’t stop him from assuming a defining role in the ongoing transformation of US higher education.

Kirk pioneered a style of ideological warfare against what he viewed as bastions of leftism, helping turn campuses into cultural battlefields and paving the way for Donald Trump’s unprecedented campaign to weaken American universities and subject them to his movement’s ideological agenda.

Peter Mandelson was effective if controversial choice as ambassador before all went wrong ‘at worst possible time’

Peter Mandelson was in his element. Lounging on a sofa one June evening at Butterworth’s, a bistro serving as the gastronomical centre of the Maga movement in Washington DC, the recently appointed British ambassador was being honoured with a plaque that indicated he was easing his way into the conservative circles around Donald Trump.

The appointment of Mandelson, an architect of Tony Blair’s New Labour project in the 1990s, had not been without controversy. He was the first political ambassador to the United States in almost half a century and had twice resigned from Labour governments in the past over scandals (not to mention his past association with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein).

Erika Kirk said ‘my husband’s voice will remain’ despite his death

Images coming out of the far-right ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in central London on Saturday show framed photographs of Charlie Kirk being held aloft as protesters gather.

The far-right activist and political commentator, who was fatally shot this week in Utah, galvanized young conservatives through online antics and inflammatory views.

Erika Kirk, the widow of the conservative activist, delivered her first public remarks on Friday. In a livestreamed speech, she thanked Donald Trump, his vice-president, JD Vance, and law enforcement officials for their support since her husband's death

• Widow of Charlie Kirk says her ‘cries will echo around the world like a battle cry’

Brianna Ladapo, the wife of Florida surgeon general Dr Joseph Ladapo, claims her husband won’t work with anyone she hasn’t vetted

The wife of Florida surgeon general Dr Joseph Ladapo, a leading vaccine skeptic, believes that angels have spoken to her and that “dark forces” are targeting her family with chemtrails, and has claimed her husband won’t work with anyone she hasn’t vetted.

In published works and interviews reviewed by the Guardian, Brianna Ladapo – who edited her husband’s USA Today op-ed from March 2020 against Covid-19 shutdowns and appears alongside him at conferences – claims to have regularly received visions that come true and believes her life has been saved “multiple times” by angels.