Germany becomes premium partner in the Ukraine war
By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says Sevim Dagdelen
Smuggling Busts Further Taint North Macedonia’s Legal Cannabis Industry
New drug seizures cast further doubt over North Macedonia’s ability to keep its medicinal cannabis industry in check.
The Fossil Fuel System Is Collapsing – and Taking Civilisation’s Safety Net With It
The Iran war is accelerating an irreversible breakdown of a system on which every hospital, harvest and factory depends - and only a rapid transition to energy superabundance can save us, argues Nafeez Ahmed, Divyesh Desai and Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
Unsere Biografie beginnt nicht mit der Adoption
Anfang 2025 wollte der Bundesrat transnationale Adoptionen stoppen – doch der Nationalrat blockierte den Entscheid.
Europe’s flower industry keeps a colonial system blooming
The booming European flower sector is worth billions, but the developing nations that provided the genetic material behind many of its blooms have received next to nothing in return.
The SNP remain the party of “free stuff” – and of imminent independence
Scotland is riven with competing forms of radicalism
Protest Is Not a Privilege
The right to protest is not a privilege; it is a basic democratic freedom. What we are witnessing now in Britain is a serious and deliberate assault on that freedom.
Art, sex, nature: why is everything sold to us as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself?
How a reductive worldview is stripping meaning from our most valued activities
More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens
Donors exceed funding target at Berlin conference but prospects for ceasefire remain distant
Jahr für Jahr Kamele und «Brownfacing» am Zürcher Sechseläuten
Am kommenden Montag findet in Zürich das Sechseläuten statt. Obwohl das Fest vermehrt für rassistische und sexistische Praktiken kritisiert wird, lehnen die Zünfte Massnahmen wie einen Leitfaden gegen Diskriminierung weiterhin ab.
How the US-Israel war on Iran is affecting African economies
For some, the impact is already being felt but others remain in limbo over their energy security and are hostage to an unlikely de-escalation
Defeating authoritarians: Notes from the Hungarian playbook
What can progressives everywhere learn from Magyar’s historic victory over Orbán’s anti-democratic regime?
Debatte: Sudan-Konferenz in Berlin: Reicht diese Hilfe?
In Berlin wurden am Mittwoch auf einer internationalen Konferenz Hilfszusagen in Höhe von 1,5 Mrd. Euro für den seit drei Jahren von einem brutalen Bürgerkrieg heimgesuchten Sudan gemacht.
Meet the investigative journalist ‘under Orbán’s skin’ on the eve of Hungary’s elections
Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi uncovered explosive evidence that the country’s foreign minister had offered favours to the Kremlin. On the eve of hotly contested elections, the government responded by accusing him of espionage and threatening jail time.
French authors revolt over far-right media mogul's purge of publishing house
As the annual Paris book fair opened on Thursday, France’s publishing world has erupted in outcry over a purge at one of the country’s most prestigious houses, Grasset, by its far-right, multi-billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré.
Orbán’s election defeat is a blow to the global anti-gender movement
Europe’s great replacement prime minister lost on Sunday, and so did the global anti-gender movement
Radical Mothering
A woman is giving birth. Her hopes, fears, and pains are her own, but her experience is universal, shaped by the society in which she lives. She could be the wealthy wife of an Athenian citizen, or a Victorian ‘fallen woman’.
Why cheap power could matter more than clean power in the push for net zero
The question of how important making our electricity clean is to going green is coming under increasing scrutiny
Elections 2026: Think global, vote local
Ahead of 7 May polling day, candidates and canvassers tell RPM what the left can achieve in local and devolved government
Anthropic are having a laugh with Mythos
Apocalyptic warnings about their Mythos model boost its proprietor’s image