How unregulated synthetic additives are used to artificially yellow chickens in Georgia In a sprawling investigation for Radio Tavisupleba, the Georgian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, journalist Giorgi Mgeladze uncovers...
How film-making and film festivals in Europe have become an engine and a focal point for Kurdish identity and solidarity There is (as yet) no state of Kurdistan. But in...
Despite Russia’s homophobic laws, queer people in Russia are still choosing to become parents. Writers Karen Shainyan and Yaroslav Rasputin, from a new Russian-language queer media outlet Just Got Lucky, collected...
An Italian report into the murky underworld of Libyan oil The histories of Italy and Libya have long been intertwined: from the time when Libya was a province of the Roman Empire, to Italian...
How unaccompanied minor migrants navigate war, displacement, and uncertain futures in Lithuania Journalists Austėja Pūraitė and Audra Skuodaitė report from Lithuania’s Rukla Reception Centre, tracing the fragile and unstable lives...
How soaring rents are quietly pushing the city’s essential workers to the margins Anna Absolonová’s reporting traces Prague’s housing crisis through the lives of those who keep the city running...
A meditation on how socialist Yugoslavia’s radical tradition of children’s literature was erased after 1990, and why reviving the figure of the “knowing child” matters urgently today. Written by cultural...
How poaching, monopolies, and institutional failure are emptying Europe’s largest wetland If you walk along one of the small ports in the villages of the Danube Delta, you might still...
How AI is quietly reshaping Spanish healthcare Artificial Intelligence is no longer a future prospect in Spanish healthcare. It is already examining patients, prioritising cases, and shaping diagnoses, often without...
How a custody case in rural Abruzzo became a vehicle for nostalgia, anti-modernism, and a political war on the judiciary In this sharp and unsettling piece from Il Post, the...
How the smart-city dream collides with the lagoon’s unruly, ungovernable heart In this essay for Domani, Stefano Dealessandri explores a Venice that is no longer just a city, but a playable...
How a once-playful slang term became Italy’s newest racialised public enemy In this sharp, deeply reported piece for Internazionale, journalist Leonardo Bianchi traces the transformation of the term maranza, a once-benign descriptor...
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