As Vance tours Europe, far-right leaders hail the fall of liberalism
Much to the disquiet of some officials in Europe, both Vance and President Donald Trump have found common cause with figures ...
How fine dining in Europe and the US came to exclude immigrant cuisine and how social media is pushing back – podcast
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A New York Home Designed for a Real-Life Couple and Their Imaginary Muse
How to revive an 18th-century upstate farmhouse without resorting to cliché? By pretending a made-up person lives there too.
Atomic grains of sand: How the history of humans is written into the fabric of the Earth
Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet ...
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Will Trump accelerate the end of the American Century?
Less than a month  after he was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America, there have been renewed ...
The Outsider Who Captured American Loneliness
The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.
The EU was built for another age – here’s how it must adapt to survive
Instead, the EU should become the coordinator of multiple unions, each formed by the member states themselves around specific ...
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The Age of Neofascism and Its Distinctive Features
With each passing day and at an accelerating pace in recent years, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are witnessing a new era of rise of the far right on a global scale, similar to the era ...
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Rick Steves’ Europe: Pomp and consequence: The fascist sites of Europe
The fascist movements of 20th-century Europe had a sweeping impact around the world, in ways that still reverberate today. And travelers have an advantage when it comes to learning from this history: ...
‘Hindi Hindu Histories’: Fascinating accounts of four 20th-century outliers who imagined new futures
Author Charu Gupta’s fine-grained studies of lesser-known vernacular intellectuals and practitioners illuminate a whole range ...
Farewell, Ruritania: Saying goodbye to Eastern Europe’s exotic aura
The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...
An expert’s honest opinion of every major city in Spain
One of Spain’s warmest cities (even in January temperatures hover around 17C) has almost all of the crowd-pleasings aspects ...