- — What France's far right has learned from Israel's apartheid system
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at 7/30/26 5:39amThere are regular warnings that France risks succumbing to fascism. But Mussolini's Italy may not be the model that attracts the far right; it could be Binyamin Netanyahu's de facto apartheid state. - 2026/08 / editorial- — Can capitalism save Cuba's revolution?
- at 7/30/26 5:39amCuba is undergoing its biggest economic transformation in decades: private firms are back and small businesses employ a quarter of the workforce. But market reform has brought no political opening. - 2026/08 / article
- — Donald Trump's Latin American proconsuls
- at 7/30/26 5:39amThe US once supported military coups to keep Latin America under its control. Now, a weaker left and the rise of organised crime are helping the far right assert itself. This suits the White House just fine. - 2026/08 / article
- — When the world took Ethiopia's side
- at 7/30/26 5:39amMussolini's attack on Ethiopia in 1935 caused more than half a million deaths by the end of the Italian occupation in 1941. Why were the sanctions imposed on Italy only half-heartedly enforced? - 2026/08 / article
- — White Australia's ‘unprecedented act of racism'?
- at 7/30/26 5:39amAustralians rejected the idea of creating the Indigenous Voice to Parliament advisory body in October 2023. Two years after this stinging defeat, the state of Victoria signed a treaty with its First Peoples. - 2026/08 / article, 2026/08 australia
- — The geopolitics of luxury hotels
- at 7/30/26 5:39amWhile Saudi Arabia is banking on industrial investment and the UAE on logistics infrastructure, Qatar has gone for luxury tourism to consolidate its international position and diversify its economy. - 2026/08 / article
- — South Korea: on the threshold of two worlds
- at 7/30/26 5:39amSouth Korea's rapid modernisation has brought a need for reassurance often found through shamans and their connection with the spirit world. The practitioners are reaping its economic rewards. - 2026/08 / article
- — Hirschfeld and Wolf: pioneers of sexual freedom
- at 7/30/26 5:39amBefore the Nazis came to power, Berlin was the centre of bold campaigns against state control over the body, championing abortion rights, homosexual equality and new understandings of sex and gender. - 2026/08 / article
- — Inside meth's ‘golden triangle'
- at 7/30/26 5:39amEurope's crystal meth trade is changing. In the Czech Republic a long-established cottage industry has given way to industrial-scale ‘kombilabs', as international organised crime groups push into a growing market. - 2026/08 / article
- — Privilege has its own QR code
- at 7/30/26 5:39amThere used to be no alternative to long queues for the most popular attractions at theme parks. Now, almost anywhere people have to wait, it's possible to skip to the front – for a price. - 2026/08 / article
- — Indigenous lands in Australia today
- at 7/30/26 5:37am- Oceania / Map, 2026/08 australia
- — Washington's stranglehold on Yemen
- at 7/16/26 5:00amThe humanitarian crisis in Yemen continues to worsen. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reported last fall that Yemen was experiencing the most severe humanitarian disaster the country had faced since 2022, when it was in the midst of a full-blown conflict. Seven out of 10 families could not meet their basic food needs, and ‘almost one in three families were going a whole 24-hour period without eating'. The food crisis was also gendered, with women and girls (…) - Outside in / Comment
- — July: the longer view
- at 7/13/26 7:03amThe month's archives. - 2026/07 / perspective
- — Highly strategic maritime borders
- at 6/30/26 3:19am- Gulf / Map, 2026/07 gulf
- — Humans and tigers: life among the mangroves
- at 6/30/26 3:18am- Asia / Map, 2026/07 tigers
- — The genocide that still haunts Namibia
- at 6/30/26 3:18amBetween 1904 and 1908 colonial troops in German South West Africa killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama. Their descendants feel powerless in the face of impending economic upheavals. - 2026/07 / article
- — The genocide that still haunts Namibia
- at 6/30/26 3:18amBetween 1904 and 1908 colonial troops in German South West Africa killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama. Their descendants feel powerless in the face of impending economic upheavals. - 2026/07 / article
- — Indonesia: depoliticised injustice
- at 6/30/26 3:18amIndonesia's leftwing activists used to believe Reformasi would produce economic policy that was pro organised labour. They're still waiting. - 2026/07 / article
- — Where the Ganges and Brahmaputra meet
- at 6/30/26 3:18amThe Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve is the world's largest mangrove forest. But as rising seas erode the delta, the balance between conservation and human survival is fragile. - 2026/07 / article, 2026/07 tigers
- — Military dominance, strategic defeat
- at 6/30/26 3:18amMilitarily, the US might be ‘utterly dominant', but that does not guarantee achieving its strategic goals. Iran is only the latest reminder of that. - 2026/07 / article
- — The US Democrats' foreign policy dead end
- at 6/30/26 3:18amDemocratic criticism of Trump's wars in Iran and Israel's assault on Gaza has been cautious, almost procedural. The party remains attached to a foreign policy doctrine that many supporters have abandoned. - 2026/07 / article
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