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The dawn of the post-Trump era

  • November 5, 2026
  • Luke A. Nichter
H.H. Munro, better known as Saki (1870–1916).
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Saki’s two selves

  • November 5, 2026
  • Philip Womack
Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq.
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Gilgamesh reborn

  • November 4, 2026
  • Paul Lay
The First Knesset in session in Jerusalem, 1949.
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Israel’s house divided

  • November 4, 2026
  • Michael Goldfarb
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America’s grand strategy for a multipolar world

  • November 4, 2026
  • Thomas Graham
Citywide euphoria breaks out in Belgrade, Serbia, on 26th October 2026 as former President Vucic admits defeat on election night.
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Putin loses his Balkan Trojan horse

  • November 3, 2026
  • Hannah Lucinda Smith
A Renaissance-era depiction of Portrait of Livia Drusilla, wife of the Roman emperor Augustus.
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The rehabilitation of Livia, Augustan Rome’s first lady

  • November 3, 2026
  • Daisy Dunn
Hanns Zischler as Thomas Mann in Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’.
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Thomas Mann’s hideous homecoming

  • November 2, 2026
  • David Thomson

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