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Some terms – such as “virtue signalling” – are irritating and illuminating in equal measure. The insult “grant eater”, which ...

In September, the International Criminal Court will conduct a confirmation of charges hearing against warlord Joseph Kony.

No one becomes an anti-corruption activist to make money, least of all in Ukraine. When I first met the co-founders of the ...

An underground network of wildlife enthusiasts and their billionaire backers claim they’re restoring Europe’s biodiversity. But some scientists say they could destroy it.

When I think back to my time growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s in a small authoritarian Eastern European state bordering Greece, Turkey, Romania and the Black Sea, one scene always springs to mind: ...

The Big Idea: Shifting Borders Borders are liminal, notional spaces made more unstable by unparalleled migration, geopolitical ambition and the use of technology to transcend and, conversely, ...

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Meet the Russian neo-Nazis fighting for Ukraine. Russian ultranationalists confronted their own government on the battlefields of Ukraine.

Russia is rewriting some of the darkest chapters of its Soviet past. The Gulag survivors have a different story and a message for our era.

Surveillance technology has brought U.S. immigration enforcement away from the border itself and onto the bodies of people seeking to cross it.

Why did we write this story? AI-generated deepfakes could soon begin to affect military intelligence communications. In line with our focus on authoritarianism and technology, this story delves into ...