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Clone wars: Meta’s Threads takes on Twitter
If there is one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms—and it is a propitious time to steal…
3 years, 1 month ago
Group dynamics: Wagner in Africa
Its leader is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the influence and the cashflow that its murky Africa…
3 years, 1 month ago
Break camp: Israel’s West Bank raids
The so-called refugee camp in the city of Jenin has been subject to raids for months—and a hotspot for militants for decades. We ask what set things …
3 years, 1 month ago
Riot-geared: the tensions behind France’s unrest
The killing of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the disquiet, and what it means for a president squee…
3 years, 1 month ago
Hot to trot: the up sides of climate migration
Mass movements of people expected as climate change progresses are often depicted as catastrophes-in-waiting. We visit Niger, where that shift has be…
3 years, 1 month ago
Antitrust, the process: America’s competition cops
This week’s court battle involving Microsoft and Activision, giants of tech and gaming, reflects a sea change under way in America’s trustbusting mac…
3 years, 1 month ago
Juan way, or another? Argentina’s election
For decades, leftist policies first espoused by Juan Perón have dominated the country’s politics. But as electioneering begins it is clear that rampa…
3 years, 1 month ago
Belarusian roulette: a mutiny’s aftermath
Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group fighters are said to be welcome in safe-haven Belarus. We ask how Aleksandr Lukashenko, the country’s puppet p…
3 years, 1 month ago
Putin’s chef spoils the broth: mutiny in Russia
Yevgeny Prigozhin, nicknamed “Putin’s chef”, leads the Wagner Group of mercenaries fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. He had lambasted Rus…
3 years, 1 month ago
Pro-life post-Dobbs: America’s anti-abortion campaigns
In the months since America’s Supreme Court gave states the power to ban abortions, those in support of the ruling have become more splintered. And w…
3 years, 1 month ago