Why West Java’s tremors – felt from the city of Bandung to Bekasi – demand urgent attention to Indonesia’s fault lines. It began with a shiver beneath the surface. At...
Аn essay explores how 20th-century socialism brought tourism to the masses in Eastern and Central Europe. Leisure tourism began as a bourgeois pastime. But over the late 19th and early...
In Russia, a top figure skating coach has been accused of physical and sexual violence against an 11-year-old athlete. The scandal has sparked a conversation about abuse in children’s sports...
French rapper Freeze Corleone embodies how conspiracy theories and recycled anti-Masonic tropes seep into youth culture through the underground rap scene. In his essay “Rap et anti-maçonnerie, étude d’un cas...
Eyí Moan Ndong, Equatorial Guinea’s last great troubadour, fused myth, humour and retro-futurism in his epic mvet performances, keeping whole villages rapt until dawn. His fragile legacy now awaits preservation,...
Italy’s summer theatre season should be a celebration, but this year it’s overshadowed by cuts that punish risk and reward conformity. Graziano Graziani reveals how public theatre is being steered...
How climate change erodes languages alongside landscapes In a report we came across in Agência Pública, journalist Julia Webster Ayuso (republished from Noema Magazine) investigates how climate change is not only devastating...
From hypnotic sludge videos to violent clips and beauty tutorials, Dutch children’s social media feeds reveal how algorithm-driven content is shaping their attention, self-image and emotional world de Volkskrant sent reporters...
In Tunisia, unregulated “miracle” supplements smuggled in from Algeria promise rapid weight changes but leave behind a trail of illness and death In a meticulous investigation for Alqatiba, journalist Sameh Gharsalli...
The story of Basque grassroots association helping migrants cross the frontier between Spain and France We have grown all too accustomed to the harrowing stories of migrants trying to cross...
Finnish street art’s unconventional champion talks about breaking norms, building bridges and giving walls a second life Jouni Väätänen, better known as Mr. Purkutaide, has made a career out of...
A window into an overlooked chapter of history – the exodus of Vietnam’s Catholic minority from North to South after French withdrawal and partition On 10 October 1954, Hanoi was...
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