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Are we running out of water? (Issue III/2022)

Welcome to the club!

by Gijs de Vries

In the light of the Ukraine war, Europe needs to allow new countries to join and also strengthen its cultural policy. After all, the European Union is first and foremost a cultural project

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The better America (Issue IV/2020)

There’s no such thing!

by Paul La Farge

In times of “alternative facts” literature is coming under closer scrutiny. Are novels just fake news? A counter argument.

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Endlich! (Ausgabe I/2020)

Robbed of their own culture

by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc

Western scientists are exploring and appropriating traditional remedies in French Guiana, extending a long-standing tradition of colonialism.

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Someone else's paradise (Issue IV/2019)

Empire’s Bones

by Panashe Chigumadzi

The former European colonial powers must finally acknowledge that their progress is built upon racism, genocide and slavery in Africa.

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Guilt (Issue II/2019)

Syria’s endless crisis

by Yassin al-Haj Saleh

The Syrian regime is a dictatorship like no other. Bashar al-Assad is trying to install a ruling dynasty and is exterminating his own people in the process. Meanwhile, the global community is looking the other way.

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Guilt (Issue II/2019)

Attack of the “new stupidity”

by Tillmann Bendikowski

Populism and nationalism promote hostility toward intellectualism and growing intolerance toward scientific knowledge endangers democracy. But what can we do about it?

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Above (Issue I/2019)

Pure and Local

by Nikolina Skenderija-Bohnet

There are only few things that impact our understanding of identity and belonging as much as food. But what do the dishes we choose, and the dishes we refuse, say about us? 

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Poorest nation, richest nation (Issue III+IV/2018)

Cracker and White Hat Hacker

by Benjamin Peters

A bitter fight for influence is underway in cyberspace and Russian hackers are centre stage. But we still think of them in terms of stereotypes - and with a large pinch of imagination.

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Earth, how are you doing? (Issue I/2018)

Stoking Fear

by Slavenka Drakulić

Why nationalism, in all its forms, demands a response.

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Une Grande Nation (Issue IV/2017)

Past shame

by Sigitas Parulskis

Why truly remembering is so difficult in Lithuania. 

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