Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister since 2010, faces an election dogfight. Behind in the polls, he has been effectively ...

It’s good to celebrate the wins, and I’m delighted the British government has decided to cap political donations from voters ...

Italy abandoned nuclear power after Chernobyl and Fukushima. Now, rising energy demand and geopolitics are forcing a rethink.

Using Silicon Valley tools, Iran has waged a propaganda and misinformation campaign that is finding its mark. The U.S. has only itself to blame ...

One difficulty in writing about corruption is explaining what it is. You’re either too specific — “it’s taking bribes”. Or ...

This story is part of our Complicating Colonialism series, which explores how unfinished conversations about the past play out in our daily lives and shape our collective future. Read more from this ...

Two servicemen sit in an underground missile launch facility. Before them is a matrix of buttons and bulbs glowing red, white and green. Old-school screens with blocky, all-capped text beam beside ...

When he saw the Tunisian coast guard coming, Fabrice Ngo knew he wouldn’t make it to Italy that day. The young Cameroonian had pushed off from the shore of the Tunisian city of Sfax in a small metal ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...

In March 2021, about a year before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Timofey Kazantsev, a classical pianist, ended a concert in Novosibirsk, Siberia in an unusual manner. He dedicated his performance to ...