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Those who look for the cause of today’s resurgence of Neets in a more recent global shock, the Covid pandemic, need to. ..

‘Father’s sister will be visiting, ’ our mother said, ‘you won’t meet her, so there’s absolutely no reason. ..

Between 4 and 12 May 1926, nearly three million workers – 20 per cent of the adult population – downed tools, and. ..

Quite naturally, as with any truly original writer, one had to learn how to read Firbank. A certain clue-seeking and. ..

One​ morning in October 1552, Felix Platter left his hometown of Basel for Montpellier, where he was to study medicine. ..

Over the past two generations, the boundaries of the classical world have been stretched to the steppe frontier of China. ..

The world exceeds us. It comes to us out of darkness. The cave is the universe, the nightly presence of that unknown. ..

The representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of The Odyssey’s imagined world. We are not. ..

If every accusation is a confession, then the US State Department report released on 20 July, which describes Cuba as. ..

Violence is escalating, but it also follows familiar trends.

Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned that Moscow’s “reckless” actions risk spreading the Ukraine war.

India’s prime minister is famous for his savvy use of social media. Now he’s getting a wake-up call.

The late senator’s long-stalled Russia sanctions bill is on its way to becoming law.

Iraq’s new prime minister faces a familiar challenge in confronting Iran-backed groups.

Daniel Yergin on China’s surprising role as a shock absorber.

The fan doesn’t stop at liking their object, they co-create it in both social and artisanal modes. In soccer we might say: You don’t become a fan when you think “soy hincha de la seleccíon, ” but when you sing it. Playing for the national team, for many, is the pinnacle—the perfection—of fandom. Like most perfections, it makes itself absurd.

The administration’s inconsistency has undermined a key tool of U. S. foreign policy.

For most of human history, climate disrupted our shared beliefs. Now communications technologies do. We are caught between frames.

In novels written immediately after World War II, Wolfgang Koeppen mined the conscience of Germany.

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s inside account of the Trump administration portrays a president with a vast appetite for power but who repeatedly backs down when the costs of his actions become too high.