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A ‘Red’ New Deal for China?
A look at what lies behind China’s recent economic policy pronouncements – and to what extent they can be considered to be progressive.
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The Woman Who Lost Her Fear
A decade ago, a group of 20-year-old girls entered a Cathedral in Moscow to deliver a punk concert, imploring the Mother of God to rid the world of Putin. The group’s leaders were arrested and sent to a remote penal colony. An online interview with one of the leaders, Maria Alyokhina.
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The ‘Forever Prisoners’ of Guantanamo
The notorious prison camp in Cuba is 20 years old. Over the years, several plans to close it have been rejected. For the detainees, little has changed in the last two decades.
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What Drives Sea Level Rise?
Sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades. A quick explanation of two main ways global warming is affecting ocean levels and their threat to the coasts.
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The Labour of Smell, and How the Artisan Attar Industry Survived Pressures Across Ages
Tracing the history of perfumers reveals worlds of labour migration, processes of industrialisation and indebtedness among workers, and the pressures of global trade.
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It’s 75 Years Since the Historic Royal Indian Navy Revolt Shook the British Empire
On February 18, 1946, a group of naval ratings mutinied at the shore establishment and naval base HMIS Talwar, which triggered an insurrection against the British Empire involving other Indian naval ratings, soldiers, police personnel and civilians.
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The First Indian Election: Inclusion, Independence and the Making of ‘We, The People’
The distinctive independence that the Indian Constitution stipulated for the Election Commission belongs to ‘WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA’. This is so in a literal sense, because the people had a key role in re-shaping the final constitutional provisions for elections.
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Full Text: ‘If Netaji Had Been Alive No One Would Have Dared to Issue Calls for Genocide’
In this interview with Karan Thapar, Netaji’s grandnephew Sugata Bose said the freedom fighter would have been “quite dismayed” to see how the minorities are being discriminated against in today’s India.
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A Map of Latin America’s Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar
In this interview, Béjar – the former foreign minister in the cabinet of Peru’s President Pedro Castillo and one of the most distinguished intellectuals in the hemisphere – talks about the current political situation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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President Xiomara Castro Brings Hope and Joy to Hondurans
Piloting a series of substantial policy changes a little more than one week into her mandate, Honduras’ President Xiomara Castro has already established herself as a firm Latin American leader. In the process, she has brought hope and happiness to the Honduran people.
