• Iranians have given up on reforms

  Camelia Entekhabifard, 2 January 2018
  When hundreds of people took to the streets on Thursday 28 December in Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city, to protest against economic woes and government corruption, they caught (...) →

• A Harvey Weinstein moment for America’s wars?

  Andrew J. Bacevich, 13 December 2017
  What makes a Harvey Weinstein moment? The now-disgraced Hollywood mogul is hardly the first powerful man to stand accused of having abused women. The Harveys who preceded Harvey (...) →

• Getting people out of trouble

  Alex Randall, 30 November 2017
  Last year 23 million people were forced from their homes by disasters linked to the weather and climate change. As the planet warms (which inevitably it will) this number will (...) →

• We still need human intelligence

  Chris Spannos, 21 November 2017
  ‘I’m always happy to be surrounded by smart people, who also happen to be rich and powerful,’ Sophia the robot said late October in an emotive appeal to investors at Saudi Arabia’s (...) →

• Transnistria youth look to Catalonia

  Glen Johnson, 17 November 2017
  Perched on snug cushions surrounding a makeshift table, a group of late teens sipped cups of piping hot tea and hunted a night-time killer. “I believe you’re the murderer,” said one (...) →

• Investing in youth to defeat extremism

  Hameed Opeloyeru, 30 October 2017
  Shortly after ISIS was driven out of its stronghold in Mosul, it became clear that the war was not yet won. As ISIS continues to lose territory, fighters and credibility in the (...) →

• Trump’s new war in Afghanistan

  Chris Sands, 25 October 2017
  The hundreds of worshippers had only just stood up to pray in the Imam Zaman mosque, in the Khair Khana neighbourhood of north Kabul, when the first gunshot split the air outside. (...) →

• Grenfell and after

  Rowland Atkinson, 21 September 2017
  This summer, the annual Notting Hill Carnival took place as usual. The two-day carnival, Europe’s biggest street festival, has been a major London event every August since 1966. But (...) →

• Rohingya between Rakhine and a hard place

  Peter A. Coclanis, 20 September 2017
  The plight of the Rohingya in Rakhine State in western Myanmar is now the focus of world attention. But in comparison to the prospects for the Iraqi Kurds, another prominent (...) →

• Corbyn’s Scottish test

  Simon Jones, 9 September 2017
  Scottish Labour’s future looks like a scene from James Bond — but with Jeremy Corbyn as 007 on a metal slab, and a gang of shadowy activists from dilapidated towns in central Scotland (...) →

• In the shadow of death

  Elle Kurancid, 23 August 2017
  ‘Here, we eat wind and sand,’ a young Syrian girl remarks against the backdrop of a canvas billboard advertisement that has been repurposed into a makeshift home. The towering (...) →

• Fears on both sides of the Persian Gulf

  C. E., 12 August 2017
  A political storm swept across the region on 4 June when Saudi Arabia and its allies (UAE, Bahrain and Egypt) announced they were cutting ties with Qatar and closing all their air (...) →

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