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 ...

In January 2026, Elon Musk stood before the US Secretary of Defense and senior Pentagon leaders at the SpaceX Starbase in Texas. ‘We want to make Star Trek real, OK?’ he declared. ‘We want to make ...

Over the last 90 years, Louisiana has lost some 2,000 square miles of coastline owing to a complex set of factors that includes climate change. In What Remains, the US filmmaker Pavoo Hanninen ...

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 ...

Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?

We were a team of five: Jan, Paul, Jonas, Claudia, and me. Four dendrochronologists and one son of a dendrochronologist. Jan Esper flew in from Germany. Paul Krusic drove his Land Rover from his home ...

Youthful joy and civil unrest collide in this epic road trip tale ...

Young Europeans join far-Right movements less out of grievance than out of a profound yearning to believe and belong ...

Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls ...