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Brazil has not given up yet
On Sunday 25 October, Brazilians will decide between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, in an election with consequences for the entire continent…
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October: the longer view
The month's archives. - 2026/10 / perspective
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Historical responsibility for CO2 emissions
- Oceania / Map, 2026/10 Oceania
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Oceania: a place of water and winds
- Oceania / Map, 2026/10 Oceania
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Donald Trump tampers with Brazil's democracy
In the run-up to October's election, the US president has been using diplomatic pressure to undermine Brazilian sovereignty and bolster Flávio Bolsonaro. This…
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The South Pacific's struggle for climate justice
Some of the world's smallest states have taken their climate fight to the highest international court, shifting the debate from pleas for help to questions of…
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The flamingo revolution soars on
Albania's Adriatic coast, concrete-free until now, is beginning to suffer from tourism-led development. Winning political support for projects seems to be easy…
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A tale of two cousins divided by war
On Moscow's streets, signs of a nation at war are hard to see. Its effects are clearer in individual lives. The burden has fallen unevenly on Russians…
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Poland's support for Ukraine wears thin
The prospect of Ukraine's likely EU accession is becoming less popular with Poles, as farmers and truckers face price collapses. And with disputes over…
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Reform UK plots its counter-revolution
Nigel Farage is surrounded by scandal and has seen his poll numbers dip. To counter Andy Burnham, Britain's populist leader marshalled his ‘People's Army' at…
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Settler terror escalates in the West Bank
The situation in the West Bank is increasingly violent. Jewish settlers are seizing and destroying Palestinian property in a campaign of dispossession…
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The United States' decline is also China's problem
Many in the West see China as the real victor in the Iran war, with the US's failures clearing Beijing's path to global dominance. In reality, it has little to…
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September: the longer view
The month's archives. - 2026/09 / perspective
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UK sanctions: Israel can rest easy
On 8 September, as part of a joint initiative involving twelve countries, the UK foreign secretary made a statement to the House of Commons announcing new…
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Somaliland in the Great Game
The small self-proclaimed state of Somaliland is aiming to become a regional player: it is now an ally of Israel and has commercial and security agreements in…
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The search for an alternative to the dollar is on
The dollar gives America huge power, but the international monetary system built around it is sliding into chaos, as recent US support for the yen shows. Yet…
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Donald Trump's red scare
The US left is making gains. With elections looming and his ratings tanking, Trump has revived the old communist spectre – and recast the left as a terrorist…
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Macron, worst ever president?
Emmanuel Macron leaves the Élysée in eight months. And, in keeping with the political journalism tradition whereby last-minute criticism apparently makes up…
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Somaliland at the centre of regional geopolitics
- Africa / Map, 2026/09 Somaliland
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New alliances replace old certainties
Binyamin Netanyahu has vowed to ‘change the face of the Middle East'. But the war with Iran has created a situation that no single power can control. - 2026/09…
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Germany: charting its own course
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany has broken with its postwar military restraint: it is rearming at speed and has set its sights on becoming NATO's leading…
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Military spending fuels Rheinmetall's rise
Germany wants to build ‘the strongest conventional army in Europe'. And the country's defence giant Rheinmetall is expanding into new sectors, from…
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August: the longer view
The month's archives. - 2026/08 / perspective
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What France's far right has learned from Israel's apartheid system
There are regular warnings that France risks succumbing to fascism. But Mussolini's Italy may not be the model that attracts the far right; it could be…
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Can capitalism save Cuba's revolution?
Cuba is undergoing its biggest economic transformation in decades: private firms are back and small businesses employ a quarter of the workforce. But market…
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Donald Trump's Latin American proconsuls
The US once supported military coups to keep Latin America under its control. Now, a weaker left and the rise of organised crime are helping the far right…
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When the world took Ethiopia's side
Mussolini's attack on Ethiopia in 1935 caused more than half a million deaths by the end of the Italian occupation in 1941. Why were the sanctions imposed on…
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White Australia's ‘unprecedented act of racism'?
Australians rejected the idea of creating the Indigenous Voice to Parliament advisory body in October 2023. Two years after this stinging defeat, the state of…
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The geopolitics of luxury hotels
While Saudi Arabia is banking on industrial investment and the UAE on logistics infrastructure, Qatar has gone for luxury tourism to consolidate its…
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South Korea: on the threshold of two worlds
South Korea's rapid modernisation has brought a need for reassurance often found through shamans and their connection with the spirit world. The practitioners…
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Hirschfeld and Wolf: pioneers of sexual freedom
Before the Nazis came to power, Berlin was the centre of bold campaigns against state control over the body, championing abortion rights, homosexual equality…
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Inside meth's ‘golden triangle'
Europe's crystal meth trade is changing. In the Czech Republic a long-established cottage industry has given way to industrial-scale ‘kombilabs', as…
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Privilege has its own QR code
There used to be no alternative to long queues for the most popular attractions at theme parks. Now, almost anywhere people have to wait, it's possible to skip…
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Washington's stranglehold on Yemen
Yemen's crisis has been aggravated significantly by a US measure that appears, at first glance, unrelated: the designation of the Houthis as a Foreign…
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July: the longer view
The month's archives. - 2026/07 / perspective
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Humans and tigers: life among the mangroves
- Asia / Map, 2026/07 tigers
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The genocide that still haunts Namibia
Between 1904 and 1908 colonial troops in German South West Africa killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama. Their descendants feel powerless in the face of…
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Indonesia: depoliticised injustice
Indonesia's leftwing activists used to believe Reformasi would produce economic policy that was pro organised labour. They're still waiting. - 2026/07 / article
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Where the Ganges and Brahmaputra meet
The Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve is the world's largest mangrove forest. But as rising seas erode the delta, the balance between conservation and human…
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Military dominance, strategic defeat
Militarily, the US might be ‘utterly dominant', but that does not guarantee achieving its strategic goals. Iran is only the latest reminder of that. - 2026/07…
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The US Democrats' foreign policy dead end
Democratic criticism of Trump's wars in Iran and Israel's assault on Gaza has been cautious, almost procedural. The party remains attached to a foreign policy…
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Iraq stakes a claim to Gulf waters
Iraq inherited an awkward geography on independence in 1932 and has spent a century trying to escape it. Now, competing claims to maritime zones and…
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The nationalist ideology that binds India to Israel
Once staunchly pro-Palestinian, India under Narendra Modi has forged close ties with Israel that are about more than arms sales: there's a deep ideological…
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The Balkans in Europe's waiting room
The EU promises the Balkans a bright future within the bloc. Yet enlargement remains stalled while member states profit from the Balkans' skilled labour…