Summariess

Every week, we publish three summaries of longer articles which have caught our eye in media beyond the Anglosphere, selected and summarised by our team, regular contributors, and guest editors – including stories recommended to us by you, our readers.

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Norm war

A French perspective on the performative power games of Donald Trump The beginnings of Trump’s second term as President of the United States have been eventful. A brutally disruptive tariff

The campaign that never dies

A storied association for the Netherlands’ progressive Turkish community celebrating its anniversary – and worrying about its future “I was shocked by what I found”, Maviye Karaman says of her

L’affaire Íngrid Betancourt

A Spanish review of a French documentary about Colombia In the early 2000s, l’affaire Íngrid Betancourt —the hostage-taking of a Colombian French dual national presidential candidate at the height of the 2002

Class war in Cortina

Fashion and fascism in the Dolomites “White is the colour of purity, of cleanliness, of calm, of ironed shirts and weddings, of linen tablecloths and holiness”, writes Caterina de Biaisio in Rivista Studio:

Islands of power

An Ecuadorian perspective on Pacific geopolitics in the Trump era The Peruvian airbase of ‘El Pato’ sits just inland from the Pacific Ocean, a few kilometres north of the remote

Dictatorship deluxe

A report on the rise and fall of Uncle Assad’s real estate empire The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has sparked multiple investigations into how and where the

Clean Girl only for whites?

Brazil’s Revista AzMina takes on the popular lifestyle aesthetic. From pristine centre-partings to no-makeup looks, the clean girl aesthetic epitomises a sense of impeccable, natural elegance. Think of 1990’s American icon Carolyn

A requiem for Salzburg’s Mozart balls?

The city contends with the end of local industrial production of the chocolate delight. Two hundred and thirty-three years after the death of Austria’s most famous composer and his burial

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