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Bertrand Tavernier’s daring documentary about the Algerian revolution sought to break the silence in France.
Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?
Germany has responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, marking a new wave of militarization.
The tradition allows private and public life to meet, maintaining a baseline solidarity in civic life.
The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.
Poland and Russia both think of Ukraine as a seat of authentic Slavic culture. Józef Czapski’s war memoir highlights how this has often clashed with Ukraine’s independence.
Condemning Putin's war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.
The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.
In the 1970s, gay and lesbian West Germans sought to forge political solidarity from sexual identity.
In the most turbine-surrounded community in the world, poor residents understand that their loss—of land, jobs, and serenity—has nothing to do with the common good. Clean energy advocates should take notice.
Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.
Center-left parties should learn that small-bore solutions are a waste of time.
The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.
The country’s ruling party is suppressing research and cultural work on the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews.
The Greens are on track to become Germany’s second strongest party. Was abandoning radicalism was the right choice?
A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.
Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.
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