Closed governments hate open systems. They're afraid of a fast, unmonitored internet infrastructure which offers access to the kind of information that may help to bring about their undoing.
The over 10 year-long blockade of Gaza is having a devastating impact on the lives of people living in the strip, affecting healthcare, water systems, and the ability to live and work.
The only way to really bargain with brands is to bargain globally.
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As Brazilian politics increasingly escape rational explanation, both the left and and the right get lost in the labyrinth of history. Português
Trump's bombast amplifies a perilous nuclear crisis. North Korea remembers the Truman plan. The risk of war is real.
Hazem Abu Rajab’s family was forcibly displaced from its home in Hebron’s old city by Israeli settlers.
David Elstein, director of three episodes of the seminal "The World At War" series, finds Dunkirk to be a powerful film but one shorn of historical context. Here he fills in the vital gaps - and finds some curious anomalies.
Three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine, Belarus is building its first nuclear power station. Concerns about the project’s safety aren’t deterring the authorities.
Are we standing on the brink of a new kind of nihilistic governmentality, where politics is turned into perpetual theatre, disconnected from any kind of coherent government programming?
