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When a city loses its name

Fifteen years after Masan, Jinhae and Changwon were merged into a single “megacity”, residents still grapple with the loss of their local identities and autonomy “Everything was taken away, even...

Danish dating gets the ick

In Denmark, the global Gen Z slang “ick” has entered everyday dating language, replacing old Danish words for disgust and reshaping how young people talk about attraction, revulsion, and the...

Africa’s place in the far right imagination

An exploration of how the continent figures in global reactionary thought as both resource frontier and ideological battleground In “Africa in the shadow of the global far right”, German-Kenyan scholar...

Cabo Delgado’s forgotten daughters

In Mozambique’s war-torn north, girls fleeing conflict face a second nightmare, including corruption, sexual exploitation and survival prostitution – inside displacement camps meant to protect them Since 2017, the province...

AI-generated Indigenous elders

Aos Fatos uncovers a digital deception that combines artificial intelligence with colonial mythmaking, all in the name of profit What happens when ancient wisdom is faked by machine learning and...

Polish students are getting smarter

Student protesters in Poland are using direct action to force universities to make small – but significant – changes Poland’s radical student movement has become increasingly effective in fighting for...

The “invisible” degradation of Greece’s groundwater

Under pressure from climate change and overuse, a precious but overlooked resource is at risk of being permanently depleted Life on Earth depends on water, yet preserving this vital resource...

Shades of grey

AI-driven colourisation is transforming historical film footage, but could digitally adding colour risk distorting how we see the past and what we take to be authentic? When asked in an...

“All that glitters is not gold”

A new wave of luxury resorts backed by state subsidies are monopolising water in the already drought-prone Italian South, leaving local communities and farmers to deal with the consequences When...

Rewriting reality

How Ruwiki is quietly erasing war crimes, legitimising occupation and remapping Ukraine in Moscow’s image When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it also began a quieter...

Housing for All? Korea’s quiet experiment

The collapse of the long-term lease system has left many Koreans exposed to unexpected risks. In an interview with Slow News, Choi Kyung-ho discusses how social housing might change that....

Shamate: The tribe of Chinese migrant workers

In the dusty streets of China’s factory towns, a generation of rural migrants found belonging in impossible hairstyles and neon dye. The shamates were never just a subculture; they were...

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