We can hope that those “formal truth-telling processes” now under way in several capital cities will deliver long-denied ...

Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism is “premised on the conviction that we cannot see impressionism clearly” without grasping the impact on the movement’s leading painters of the Franco-Prussian ...

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As the risk of region-wide war grows in the Middle East, the United States looks increasingly like an ineffectual bystander ...

All of Hamburg hates the AfD,” tens of thousands of demonstrators chanted in Germany’s second-largest city on 19 January this ...

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Canny coalition-building fuelled the ascendancy of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. But does his chosen successor represent continuity or change?

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Braving the Melbourne winter recently were the University of Toronto’s Avi Goldfarb, the University of California’s John Asker, Julian Wright from the National University of Singapore, Lorin M. Hitt ...