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The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird in part one of The Big Story?

The post-communist city is a murky political space, writes Kieron Monks.

Amanda Sperber assesses the long-term consequences of Somalia's worst suicide attack.

Danny Chivers reports on the key environmental struggles to keep track of in the coming year.

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s ‘refugee drowner-in-chief’, is put under the spotlight.

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December 2018, Issue 517

Big story

  • A chance for justice?
  • A rustbelt romance
  • Investor Rex
  • The dark arts
  • Open China

Also this issue …

  • Unlearning despair
  • Cartoon History: Toussaint Louverture
  • Country Profile: Cuba
  • Fetishizing indigenous people
  • Catching the cops

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