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Donbas: the ground neither side will cede
Anatol Lieven, January 2026In the Ukraine war, western Donetsk has taken on an importance far beyond its strategic value. With neither side ready to pay the political price of yielding, the deadlock risks dangerous escalation. → -
The banning of Palestine Action
Rayan Freschi & Mathieu Rigouste, January 2026The UK government has turned post-9/11 anti-terrorism legislation on members of Palestine Action, whose campaigns have directly targeted arms manufacturers supplying the Israeli military. → -
South Korea: anatomy of a coup gone wrong
Renaud Lambert, February 2025Seoul’s Central District Court has sentenced former president Yoon Suk-yeol to five years in prison. It found him guilty of various charges related to his declaration of martial law on 3 December 2024. (…) →
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Mauritians speak out for their macaques
Guillaume Poisson, January 2026Mauritius has become the world’s leading exporter of macaques for biomedical research. While some regard the animal as a pest, many Hindus on the island are voicing concerns about the trade. → -
After defeating ISIS, Syria’s Kurds are abandoned
Outside in • Tanya Goudsouzian, 21 January 2026cc Kurdishstruggle In 2014, the war against ISIS was focused in Iraq but it was clear that the end would come about only if its forces were destroyed in (…) → -
A country plagued by police killings
Richard Keiser, July 2020
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Greenland is not for sale
Philippe Descamps, March 2023As Donald Trump keeps Greenland in his expansionist sights, yesterday Denmark’s prime minister visited the island, which is taking small steps towards independence. In response to the findings of an official enquiry, published earlier this month, Mette Frederiksen apologised (…) → -
Is Sudan still a state?
Gérard Prunier, March 2024After an 18-month siege, El Fashir, the capital of North Darfur, fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last week. Images from the scene tell of massacres, torture and the execution of civilians in a region already ravaged by famine. Since April (…) → -
Give him a prize!
Benoît Bréville, November 2025
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Hungary: time up for Viktor Orbán?
Ambre Bruneteau & Corentin Léotard, January 2026Viktor Orbán has held power in Hungary since 2010 by appealing to rural voters. This spring he faces a formidable challenge from a new party which believes it can beat him at his own game. → -
Mental illness: symptom of a broken world
December 2025‘Workers returning home’ (1913-15) by Edvard Munch. In the Middle Ages, madmen, or fools, were made to wear costumes: a bell-trimmed hood and (…) → -
Is the United States’ patience with Israel running out?
Serge Halimi, December 2025
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Why can Rwanda seemingly do no wrong?
Erik Kennes & Nina Wilén, March 2025The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have taken the DRC’s eastern cities, and the region’s humanitarian crisis is dire. Why has the West been reluctant to go beyond formulaic criticism of the Rwandan government? → -
The era of the icebreaker
Sandrine Baccaro & Ph. D., May 2020The temperature of the Arctic has warmed almost four times faster since 1979 than that of the rest of the world, according to a new study published last Thursday in the Nature group’s journal Communications (…) → -
Bhutan: land of happiness?
Hélène Ferrarini, December 2025
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Spain: from Francoism to feminist revolution
From the darkness of the Francoist era to the lively feminist protests of the present day, Spain has undergone a radical metamorphosis. The country’s democratic transition did not come as a result of the collapse of Francisco Franco’s decades-long dictatorship, or because of a popular uprising. Instead, it was (…) →
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Blame it on Thucydides
Philip S Golub, January 2026China’s President Xi says his country’s rise does not mean war with the US is inevitable. But many in Washington and beyond still see great-power rivalry as a path that ends in (…) → -
December: the longer view
December 2025The month’s archives. → -
In China, time to face up to the cost of ‘involution’
Nathan Sperber, December 2025President Xi warns that cut-throat, self-defeating competition is weakening his country’s economy even as productivity and exports rise. Beijing now sees curbing this dynamic as (…) → -
Gen Z in revolt
October 2025In Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Peru and the Philippines, ‘Gen Z’ is taking to the streets. A striking flag flutters above these protests: that of the Straw Hat Pirates in the manga (…) →
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After defeating ISIS, Syria’s Kurds are abandoned
Tanya Goudsouzian, 21 January 2026In 2014, the war against ISIS was focused in Iraq but it was clear that the end would come about only if its forces were destroyed in its Syrian sanctuary. The small contingent of (…) → -
Inside capitalism’s hidden command centres
Benjamin Selwyn, 4 December 2025After free market ideology became dominant in the 1980s, arguments for economic planning were largely sidelined. Recently, though, there has been an accelerated adoption of (…) → -
‘Not flesh and blood’: bombing Yemen and Palestine
Elham Al-Oqabi & Elle Kurancid, 6 October 2025A Sanaa-based writer grapples with years of catastrophic loss across her country, now reflected in the ongoing Gaza genocide. ‘Yemen, like other countries and regions in the (…) → -
Forced labour concerns: US bans import of Giant’s Taiwan-made bikes
Peter Bengtsen, 2 October 2025Bicycles made in Taiwan by the world’s biggest manufacturer will be seized at the border by the US Customs and Border Protection. →
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Is China intent on remaking the world order?
March 2024On this month’s podcast we’re joined by Le Monde diplomatique’s new Asia head, Renaud Lambert, who writes in the current edition of the paper about China’s global ambitions (‘China: (…) → -
The price of being Israel’s best friend
February 2024Our guest on this month’s podcast is Eric Alterman, CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College and author of We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over (…) → -
Taiwan’s history, Taiwan’s future
January 2024Taipei-based journalist Alice Hérait is our guest on this second podcast of the month on significant elections. Alice has a piece in the January edition of the paper entitled (…) → -
US election: the case of South Carolina
January 2024With the US primary season now under way, in this month’s podcast we turn the spotlight on the electoral contest in South Carolina, home state of prominent Trump challenger Nikki (…) →
Classic texts
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The effects of a communications revolution
Jacques Ellul, May 1965Today, forms of mass communication, especially telecommunication, are developing and perfecting themselves at a pace that is difficult to imagine — faster, perhaps, than any other (…) → -
The language of the foreigner
Jacques Derrida, January 2002On 22 September 2001 Jacques Derrida, philosopher, writer and professor at the École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), was awarded Frankfurt’s Theodor-W-Adorno prize. (…) → -
What is literature for?
Juan Goytisolo & Günter Grass, November 1999The German writer Günter Grass won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, a decision that delighted all those who have admired the radical power of Grass’s writing since The Tin Drum (…) → -
The media, the intelligentsia and Pierre Bourdieu
Jacques Bouveresse, February 2004The media have begun to value media criticism, which now appears in newspapers and on radio and television, generally in a fairly harmless form. It allows them to be seen as final (…) →
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