Steady access to safe, drinkable water is still a privilege, and Europe is struggling with ever-worsening droughts. The new episode of the Standard Time talk show discusses chemical hazards, eco guerrillas, and why we can never have enough pelicans.
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To a young Slovak dissident, the Helsinki Accords seemed at the time merely to cement the status quo. He was proven wrong. Fifty years later, however, it is clear that the power of the treaty was confined to its historical moment.
Far-right foreign policy in the age of MAGA 2.0
A conversation with Quinn Slobodian
Trump marks the end of the separation in US foreign policy between security unilateralism and economic globalism. For the US today, tariffs serve the same purpose as bombs. This drives a wedge between the Trump regime and its international far-right allies – with one exception: Russia.
Four NGOs in Kharkiv explain what the suspension of USAID funding means for their work. They include a media organization countering Russian propaganda, a centre providing veterans with legal advice, and volunteer groups refurbishing war-damaged buildings.
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On the border between Poland and Belarus, the Forest has become the subject of a humanitarian crisis. An artist’s report, based on meetings with activists and refugees, charts this contested space. Poetry honours those lost in transit.
Controversies over the legacies of dictatorship and civil war have polarized the Spanish debate for over two decades. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of Franco’s death, the legitimacy of the transition is uncertain. Could things have been done differently?
The protests over the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu are the biggest display of anti-government feeling in Turkey since Gezi Park. Again, people are challenging the culture of public silence; and again, they are being punished for doing so.
“Come Together” is founded on the principles of partnership and peer-to-peer learning among individuals within community media organizations situated in six different countries. Instead of generating entirely new knowledge, the initiative aims to unearth and leverage the existing wisdom residing within these organizations to foster innovative approaches.
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To have a body
Esprit 3/2025
Esprit revisits the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: including Guillaume Le Blanc on ‘incarnation’; Corine Pelluchon on eco-phenomenology; and Judith Revel on Merleau-Ponty, ‘the eternal runner-up’.
In the spirit of the times and against the grain
Osteuropa 1–3/2025
Osteuropa at 100: Manfred Sapper on the history of the journal from Weimar to the present; Gerd Koenen on a century of German–Russian projections; Katharina Raabe on eastern European literature in translation; Dorothea Redepenning on the bilateral politics of classical.
Trust, bordering and necro-racism
Soundings 88 (2024)
How disenchantment with government has fuelled necropolitics; statue mania in the age of empire; and a conversation about censorship, self-censorship and Palestine.
Focal points
The European Parliament elections on 9 June are a referendum on EU policy since 2019. Will voters give Europe the green light for further progress, or pull the brakes? A new Eurozine series measures the political atmosphere in the EU and its neighbourhoods at this crucial moment.
Food and water systems under pressure: as the end of abundance becomes an everyday experience in Europe, we are thinking more closely about how our food reaches the table.
Post-revolutionary Ukrainian society displays a unique mix of hope, enthusiasm, social creativity, collective trauma of war, radicalism and disillusionment. With the Maidan becoming history, the focal point ‘Ukraine in European Dialogue’ explores the new challenges facing the young democracy, its place in Europe, and the lessons it might offer for the future of the European project.
Some observers, recalling the disasters of the 1920s and 30s, are suggesting that an anti-democratic counterrevolution on a global scale has begun. But is the writing really on the wall? Or does declinism prevent us from recognizing moments of democratic renewal?
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