An Italian journalist explores the links between the iconic telemarketers of the 1980s and selling online today There’s a scene in Paolo Sorrentino’s 2018 film Loro in which a character bearing an...
A Russian writer traces the country’s political culture back to the films and books of the 2000s Are the cultural artefacts of a particular place at a particular time –...
How climate change is driving dolphins into deadly contact with fishing fleets in the Bay of Biscay In this article for the French daily newspaper Libération, journalist Julie Renson Miquel reports...
As Thailand’s Salween River joins a growing list of contaminated waterways in the country, a new investigation asks why the state keeps managing damage, while refusing to confront its source...
A French take on the rise of the ‘ecologically minded’ extreme-right in Germany Evil doesn’t die; it reinvents itself. Following the worrying results of last September’s local elections in Saxony—where...
An investigative report into Europe’s growing bear population and how it is being (mis)managed Most Europeans – particularly in western Europe – have never seen a bear in the wild....
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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...
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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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