Third time lucky for a candidate determined to disrupt the young democracy’s two-party system South Korea’s Green Party has won its first-ever local council seat in the mid-eastern city of...
The parents of a Gen-Z icon fear for his safety after a government crackdown on his new cockroach-inspired political party A new political party in India, the Cockroach Janata Party...
How food culture is being weaponised by the far right, from raw-egg masculinity to nationalist school meal policies in Sweden In Sweden’s anti-racist publication Expo, journalist Jenny Damberg traces how food...
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...
As Russia redesigns its currency, Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov wages a symbolic war for visibility When the independent Russian outlet Radio Svoboda published journalist Artem Radygin’s report on the Russian Central Bank’s search...
From homemakers to activists, Taiwanese women have taken to the streets to protect their democracy from Beijing’s influence. Their movement is reshaping both the nation’s politics and the meaning of...
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...
Romania’s evolving political satire reveals what jokes can say and what they can’t In this thoughtful and subtly sharp essay, Romanian writer Dan Panaet traces the country’s long, awkward relationship...
A once-celebrated media personality and political fixer, Mehdi Ghezzar now finds himself sidelined as Franco-Algerian tensions have taken on a new, harder edge In an article for the French quarterly Revue...
As Turkey reels from the detention of leading opposition figure Ekrem İmamoğlu, a Turkish political scientist analyses why this is truly the last exit before autocracy Ok. Imagine a game...
An Italian journalist takes a critical look at the ambient religious and political culture around “natural” methodologies of fertility management. On its website, the secular sounding Italian Confederation of Centres...
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