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Brussels is turning to citizens’ assemblies to fix democracy. Do they work?

Brussels is turning to citizens’ assemblies to fix democracy. Do they work?

How are journalists abroad reacting to the United States in 2026?

Brussels is turning to citizens’ assemblies to fix democracy. Do they work?

Three hundred years ago, the satirist warned of a world in which reading and writing are replaced by the flashy simulation of human knowledge. Can he help us fix it?

What are war correspondents for?

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Two reports from The New Tab, a magazine in exile.

How China’s short dramas are redefining entertainment. 

In How We See It, twelve of the most talented and insightful journalists from around the world probe their home countries’ complex relationship with the United States — and how this has swerved under ...

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I’ve spent much of my career reporting outside the United States, but in recent years, many of my interviews have ended the same way: with questions to me about what is happening at home. The…

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The Epstein files shattered that.

“We wanted to hold a mirror up to Cuba, show the island what the hell it was.”

The narrator of Perrine Tripier’s novel Our Precious Wars, translated from French by Alison Anderson, has spent her entire life in the same house tucked away in the woods in the French countryside, fi...

Is it suffering? Is it just a sign of the times?

Advice from around the world on how to keep working under threat.

How one fund wreaked havoc on Kenya's health care system

Taiwan goes it alone.

The Dial is an online magazine of culture, politics, and ideas with a focus on locally sourced writing from around the world.

We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.

In 1994, my mother had her first psychotic break.

A conversation from the Bergen International Literary Festival.

Esther King finds kinship in Argentine British poet Leo Boix's Southernmost:

Until 2024, the objects on display in “Trésors sauvés de Gaza” (“Treasures Saved from Gaza”), an exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris that

Who will mourn the last letter?

In this week's Top 5 we have lessons from apartheid, clever Claude, feeling bodies anew, the power of wax, and free mining.

The US looks a lot like Turkey.

No one, not even the supposed beneficiaries, is protected.

The Blind Owl remains essential reading for understanding the country.

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In July 1987 the Hajj ceremony in Mecca turned into a bloodbath. Shia pilgrims, mostly Iranians, staged a protest, chanting against America, Israel, and

How American tourists took over everything.

Recent novels reflect our own confusion about what makes us human.

A glut of self-help books promises to teach us to do it better.

“These days I have no passport, no documents. And even if I manage to get one, I cannot return to Egypt.”