Girls interrupted: Afghanistan
When the Taliban resumed power, there were hopes that women might not be as excluded, repressed and abused as they were previously. Those hopes have faded. As smartphone sales plateau, tech giants are...
15 Apr 202223min
Food haul: aid trickles into Tigray
A ceasefire agreed weeks ago should have mitigated the suffering of starving Ethiopians caught up in war; we ask why so little aid has got through. Rebuilding Ukraine’s infrastructure and economy will...
14 Apr 202221min
Just fine: Boris Johnson and “partygate”
Police have served Britain’s prime minister, among others, with a fine for breaching the lockdown rules he instituted. He may yet again emerge unscathed, but Britain’s politics is damaged nonetheless....
13 Apr 202223min
A stretch and a run: Brazil’s ex-president returns
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left office with a sky-high approval rating, having raised millions from poverty—but was then convicted of corruption. Now he wants his old job back. Forced labour in Uzbekis...
12 Apr 202222min
Le Pen is mightier than before: France’s election
President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen of the nationalist-populist National Rally party will advance to a run-off; in the continuation of our series, we ask what to expect in an unexpectedly tigh...
11 Apr 202225min
Laïcité, extrémité, fragilité: our French-election series in full
The first round of the presidential election is on Sunday and our first-ever series has been following the race closely. This compendium of the first six dispatches looks at the candidates, their plat...
9 Apr 202254min
Gota the trouble: Sri Lanka’s crises
Through ineptitude and bad timing, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa—known as Gota—has driven his country toward ruin. Its people want him out. Russian forces have occupied Kherson since early March. We he...
8 Apr 202224min
Nasty, brutish and long? The war’s next stage
Russian troops have withdrawn from suburban Kyiv to focus on the eastern Donbas region. With Western weapons for Ukraine flowing in, a grinding war of attrition looms. For our French-election series w...
7 Apr 202226min
