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Women are struggling in India’s Covid-hit informal economy
Lacking support from their families and the government, many workers are barely scraping by.
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Austria’s far right collapses
Reeling from scandal and struggling during the pandemic, the FPÖ suffers catastrophic losses in Vienna elections.
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After another rape and murder, Indians ask if anything’s changed
Attitudes toward caste and gender are perpetuating a sense of impunity.
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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.
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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.
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Saudi Arabia’s imagined worlds
Fiction has enabled authors to advance daring critiques of the kingdom’s social and political order.
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In India, another step away from secularism
Construction of a Hindu temple provides Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist BJP a ‘mission accomplished’ moment.
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Hitler’s birthplace exposes tensions in Austria
There’s no easy solution for the yellow house in the town of Braunau.
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India’s Muslim activists face trial by fire
As the Hindu nationalist government cracks down, student organizers are fighting back.