The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses ...

Flogsta is a shabby student ghetto in Uppsala, Sweden. Within the cramped walls of its dormitories, a multitude of dramas play out, involving broken frying pans, a never-ending orchestra rehearsal, an ...

Aeon, an international magazine of ideas, is launching a philosophy prize to support and publish outstanding philosophical writing by new and emerging academics. Shortlisted finalists will have the ...

The word can morph from noun to verb to adjective, from dog to human, from female to male. What will it do next?

While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage. Their clash consumed Europe ...