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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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