Europe’s far right struggles over Biden’s election
Four years after billing Trump’s ascendance as a major boon, populist leaders are seeing their fortunes decline—for now.
India’s professional women face extra hurdles
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic battered the economy, women had to fight for their careers to be taken seriously.
Beirut’s social fabric is tearing apart
Nearly three months after the port explosion, the fallout in one destroyed neighborhood reflects a country in collapse.
Even in Germany, Trump is inescapable
With granular coverage of US politics everywhere, there’s little distance from what’s happening back home.
Women are struggling in India’s Covid-hit informal economy
Lacking support from their families and the government, many workers are barely scraping by.
Austria’s far right collapses
Reeling from scandal and struggling during the pandemic, the FPÖ suffers catastrophic losses in Vienna elections.
After another rape and murder, Indians ask if anything’s changed
Attitudes toward caste and gender are perpetuating a sense of impunity.
Forced from Budapest, Central European
University opens in Vienna to a pandemic
Classes are back in session after a major showdown with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, but Covid-19 is posing another challenge to the institution’s ideals.
In western Germany, a struggling city
seeks to move beyond stereotypes
An icon of former coal country suffers high unemployment, low incomes and a bad image. It’s also misunderstood.
Saudi Arabia’s imagined worlds
Fiction has enabled authors to advance daring critiques of the kingdom’s social and political order.