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According to journalist Karen Hao, the companies at the heart of the AI industry are increasingly acting like modern empires. A conversation about the consequences—and what needs to change.

While major media organizations in the United States are under pressure, the nonprofit organisation Documented is giving local journalism a new lease of life

The Latin American-Californian artist Saul Villegas blends art and science in his unique 3D digital worlds

Putin is fighting in the Ukraine for the right to an equal dialogue with the West

The old order is breaking down: historian Anne Applebaum reflects on the profound changes of our time

In Europe and the USA, right-wing parties are increasingly gaining influence, while resistance to them is waning. Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai diagnoses a collective democratic fatigue

The Texan Mexican artist José Villalobos focuses on the clothing of Mexican Norteño culture. It’s extravagant and camp but is also seen as the epitome of masculinity

The Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz has always been drawn to distant horizons. From Brazil via New York, he found his way to Berlin

Louise Erdrich talks about resistance by indigenous peoples in 1950s America

Life is not possible without heroes. The author Cornelia Funke explains our need for role models and difference between idols of children and adults.

For a long time the male gaze dominated the arts and it was up to men to turn women into heroes. But one hashtag was enough to shake up the role of women in Hollywood.

What happens when the unsung heroes of bureaucracy take centre stage? 

How New York's glorious "hero sandwich" munched its way onto the US literary scene. 

“If you believe lawyers and jurists who work in international law, the world has become an increasingly fair place over the last few centuries. […] But international law also has an often overlooked flipside which is dark, violent and misanthropic and hails from its history.”

In his book “Stamped from the Beginning”, Ibram X. Kendi shows how stereotypes of Afro-Americans are instrumentalized in politics.