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Mauritius has become the world's leading exporter of macaques for biomedical research. While some regard the animal as a pest, many Hindus on the island are voicing concerns about the trade. - 2026/01 / article
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AI's power demands are vast and growing. The Trump administration wants nuclear reactors to meet them. Whether that's achievable, and whether communities will accept it, is another matter. - 2026/01 / article
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Viktor Orbán has held power in Hungary since 2010 by appealing to rural voters. This spring he faces a formidable challenge from a new party which believes it can beat him at his own game. - 2026/01 / article
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In the Ukraine war, western Donetsk has taken on an importance far beyond its strategic value. With neither side ready to pay the political price of yielding, the deadlock risks dangerous escalation. - 2026/01 / article
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Since independence, Ukraine's oligarchs have shaped its politics and economy, often with state complicity. Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to clean up the system, but even the war has only clipped their wings. - 2026/01 / article
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The UK government has turned post-9/11 anti-terrorism legislation on members of Palestine Action, whose campaigns have directly targeted arms manufacturers supplying the Israeli military. - 2026/01 / article
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Last October's election in the Netherlands left the rightwing bloc fragmented, but barely diminished in size. Predictions that a new era of moderate coalitions has begun may be premature. - 2026/01 / article
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China's President Xi says his country's rise does not mean war with the US is inevitable. But many in Washington and beyond still see great-power rivalry as a path that ends in confrontation. - 2026/01 / article
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Donald Trump's military attack on Venezuela did not come out of the blue. It was the boldest move yet in his campaign of sustained interference across Latin America. - 2026/01 / article
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Sudan's civil war, rooted in a failed democratic transition after the old regime collapsed, has intensified into a zero-sum power struggle between rival warlords, with civilians paying the heaviest price. - 2026/01 / article, 2026/01 sudan
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As Ukraine and Russia edge closer to a peace deal, in this month's issue Jean-Arnault Dérens asks what constitutes a good peace. Dérens examines the experience of the former Yugoslavia and its ‘bad' peace — the Dayton accords signed in November 1995. ‘Today, the Dayton accords are sometimes held up as an example of why no peace could last in Ukraine without Russia's total military defeat,' he writes. ‘In reality, a “good” peace must guarantee an effective end to hostilities, but must also (…) - 2025/12 / perspective
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In the Middle Ages, madmen, or fools, were made to wear costumes: a bell-trimmed hood and donkey ears. Such simple-minded people, jesters and moralisers, entertained the royal court. Eventually these figures were cast out to the margins of society, until the taboo surrounding mental illness began slowly to crumble. ‘One can judge how civilised a country is by looking at the way in which the mentally ill are treated,' the Annales médico-psychologiques journal stated as early as 1848. If the (…) - 2025/12 / Dossier
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£3 / $3,70 / €3,30 a month for print, or £3,60 / $5,50 / €5,50 a month for print + digital. - Promotions / Campagne (une)
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After free market ideology became dominant in the 1980s, arguments for economic planning were largely sidelined. Recently, though, there has been an accelerated adoption of industrial policy around the world, with states targeting specific firms, regions and sectors to spur growth. Economic planning has re-entered mainstream discourse and policy – it is present in talk of green transitions, national security and supply chain resilience. Some academics have been advocating the return of (…) - Outside in / Comment
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A majority of Americans disapprove of the IDF's actions in Gaza and, for the first time, more support the Palestinians than Israel. Neither party has yet figured out how to respond. - 2025/12 / article
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President Xi warns that cut-throat, self-defeating competition is weakening his country's economy even as productivity and exports rise. Beijing now sees curbing this dynamic as essential. - 2025/12 / article

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