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Crimea and punishment: Russia’s reprisals
An attack on the Kerch bridge—a pet project of President Vladimir Putin that links Russia with annexed Crimea—has prompted a swift and brutal respons…
3 years, 4 months ago
The gains in Ukraine: stalled Russia plainly wanes
Ukraine’s army has pushed Russian forces back in the south and east. We ask how they’ve managed to make such impressive gains so quickly, whether mor…
3 years, 5 months ago
Bloody and forgotten: Conflict in eastern Congo
Our correspondent reports from eastern Congo, where a three-decade-long conflict has killed thousands, and forced more than five million people from …
3 years, 5 months ago
It does mean a thing: America’s swing voters
In the next instalment of our midterms series, we head to the suburbs of Atlanta in search of that rarest of political creatures: the swing voter. Th…
3 years, 5 months ago
Misplaced Truss? Britain’s ruling party meets
Prime Minister Liz Truss has had a bruising first few weeks in office. Amid policy U-turns and plummeting poll numbers, her Tory party’s annual shind…
3 years, 5 months ago
Poll vaulter: Brazil’s surprise election result
Jair Bolsonaro, the incumbent president, did unexpectedly well—giving his campaign a boost and foreshadowing a tough run-up to the second round. Mala…
3 years, 5 months ago
Form-annex trick: Russia’s Ukraine-seizure bid
After a series of sham referendums, President Vladimir Putin is expected to annex four partly occupied regions of Ukraine. We ask what risks that mov…
3 years, 5 months ago
Lula loop: meeting Brazil’s presidential front-runner
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, looks well-placed to win a third term. But which Lula would Brazil get—the fiscal conservative…
3 years, 5 months ago
Off the top of their heads: Iran’s widespread protests
Women are burning their hijabs on bonfires and hacking off their hair—but the unrest has come to be about far more than the heavy hands of the morali…
3 years, 5 months ago
In for a penny, in for a pounding: Britain’s economic gyrations
The markets are so far entirely unconvinced that the new administration’s Reagan-esque economic plans will work to spur growth—just look at sterling'…
3 years, 5 months ago