The restaurant Owamni in Minneapolis is one of the best in the USA. Its owner Sean Sherman is both a chef and an activist. On serving food with explosive political power.
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On the social media platform TikTok, #celibacy has become a global trend. Why are more and more young people voluntarily abstaining from sex?
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The atmosphere in for journalists in Cuba is increasingly tense. As a last resort, they are turning to the internet - or exile
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Cosmopolitanism and tolerance: these are the values Sweden stands for. But now a shift to the right is sweeping through the country - and its colourful image is crumbling. How could this happen?
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The project “Intimacy of Longing” uses interviews and mixtapes to tell the stories of Turkish women who migrated to Germany. On the link between music and homeland
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Russia cannot disappear from the face of the earth. It is still a large urbanised country and home to many educated people. That’s why I would like to see a qui...
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In a world of fast-moving news about the War in Ukraine and climate change, it is often hard to take time to create art. But literature works on a different clock: It needs time to form and silence to emerge.
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In his books, Abdulrazak Gurnah takes a close-up look at life under colonial rule - and probes both his East African roots and his British homeland. A conversation.
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Our author reports on a dangerous and high-adrenalin stunt show that he has been following since he was a child.
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The scientist Maria Teresa Escalas lives in her modernist home in Mallorca, overlooking a rocky bay called Cala Santanyí.
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The author Musa Okwonga hasn’t looked back on his decision to leave his home country. On a life between Eton College, day-to-day life in Berlin and memories of Uganda.
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For half a century, activist and author Vandana Shiva has been criticising the excesses of the global economy and arguing for a simple life. A conversation about false abundance and the necessity of downsizing.
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What do you need in life? From Canada to South Africa to Pakistan, people around the globe explain what they can’t live without. Here Fatma Aydemir and T. C. Boyle say what is indispensable.
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In the middle of the Saloum river delta in Senegal lies the island of Diamniadio. Here people live off the sea – but every year the nets get a little emptier.
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