• The SNP’s big gamble

  Simon Jones, 15 March 2017
  Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has announced in Edinburgh that she would ask the Scottish parliament for permission to hold a second referendum on independence, she (...) →

• Collapse of the American party system

  Harvey B. Feigenbaum, 24 February 2017
  The US presidential election of 2016 was a shock. The Democratic Party found itself in disarray when Hillary Clinton lost. Barak Obama, speaking in the days before he left office, (...) →

• Exiled in Exarchia

  S. J., 15 February 2017
  The Exarchia district slouches up the Athenian hillsides, twenty minutes’ walk from Syntagma Square, seat of government in the heart of Athens. Occasionally it stirs, exploding in (...) →

• Iceland worries about tourist boom

  Silla Sigurgeirsdottir & Robert H Wade, 9 February 2017
  Iceland is surfing a tourist boom. From 440,000 tourists in 2008, numbers started surging in 2011, and reached 1.3 million in 2015, and 1.8 million in 2016. (The population is 330,000 (...) →

• All the world’s women

  Heidi Morrison, 8 February 2017
  The Women’s March that followed Donald Trump’s inauguration brought together nearly five million people — on all seven continents — to safeguard women’s rights. But for all its global (...) →

• Colombia’s other war

  Naomi Cohen, 16 January 2017
  Until only recently, the town of Ituango was accessible by a single dizzying, two-lane highway that snakes through the lush Colombian cordillera. The nearest city, nearly a full day (...) →

• Theocratic populist becomes Rio’s mayor

  Juliano Fiori, 14 December 2016
  Standing at the gold-crested gates of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Andressa Silvestre looked down at her purple, sculptured (...) →

• In Tunisia, women still struggle for their rights

  Don Duncan, 8 November 2016
  Tunisia was the first Arab country to enshrine women’s rights into law, back in 1957, and the only country to have successfully applied the lessons of the Arab Spring. Even so, there (...) →

• Escaping Chios

  Behzad Yaghmaian, 2 November 2016
  In a small refugee camp at the foot of the old Venetian walls of the island of Chios, Ahmed, a 16-year old unaccompanied minor from Mosul, anxiously faces an uncertain future. This (...) →

• Dismantling the ‘Jungle’, brick by brick

  Peter Blodau, Sharif Fanselow & Elle Kurancid, 11 October 2016
  “The Jungle exists because of politics and money,” shrugs Sami, a 27-year-old refugee from Kabul. “I think everyone here knows that.” Slumped in a chair outside one of the camp’s (...) →

• Refugee summits: too little, too late?

  Talha Jalal, 17 September 2016
  On September 20th, on the margins of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, President Obama will host a Leader’s Summit on Refugees, perhaps the last symbolic overture of the (...) →

• A last challenge to Brexit

  John Pedler, 6 September 2016
  What is extraordinary about the result of the 23 June UK referendum on continued membership of the European Union (Brexit) is the unquestioning acceptance — not only by people in (...) →

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