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Celebrity experts, anti-immigrant agendas and burnout undermine hopes of getting anti-trafficking back on track ...

President Fujimori’s sterilisation drive killed a woman in the 1990s. Her trial shows democracy is again backsliding ...

Huge payouts are sign of “discrimination and misogyny” in British military, warns former Tory defence minister ...

Boomers ruined everything, Millennials are work-shy and Gen Z can’t comprehend anything that isn’t a TikTok dance. Generational language defines the way we think about broad cohorts of society, but is ...

In Bulgaria in 2001, communism had ended more than a decade earlier. We had transitioned to a market economy, and while ...

Terror attacks in Europe over past 20 years should offer stark warning as US aids Israel in displacing Palestinians ...

The writer makes a fine case for compulsory voting (or rather, for ‘compulsory’ voting): ‘By introducing compulsory voting ...

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