Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
A peace settlement that divides the old Sudan into three new entities — one recognised state and two de facto polities — would merely extend a decades-long trajectory of geographic..
President Zelensky's stunning political rise promised to combat corruption and bring rapprochement with Russia. His administration is now mired in allegations of war-profiteering.
The history of Argentina suggests that austerity is only politically viable under two conditions. Javier Milei has achieved both.
Pier Paolo Pasolini's vision of the Eternal City was far from an aesthete's fantasy. His Rome was a real place, at once poetic and squalid, which he captured with a cartographer’s ..
The Turkish president's ongoing crackdown against political opponents has left his challengers in disarray, giving him a free hand to continue reshaping the country in his own imag..
The German war hero was an aesthete who sought to be heard only by those who might be willing to listen.
As Putin seeks to avoid another politically damaging mobilisation, the temptation to draw on Moscow's extensive global trafficking networks will only grow.
With the entry of Timor-Leste, ASEAN has gained a tiny new democracy to join its diverse grouping of one-party states, absolute monarchies and military juntas.
The militants on the brink of toppling Mali's junta are affiliated with Al Qaeda. But their original grievances have distinct geographic and cultural elements rooted in a deeper pa..
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