Fuel to the fire: growing unrest in Iran
After petrol subsidies were slashed, protests of surprising ferocity have flared up across the country—and neither the government nor the demonstrators seem to be backing down. The illicit trade in rh...
21 Nov 201920min
Settling in: Israel-Palestine policy
The American administration’s shifting position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank will have little immediate effect—but may end up sharply crimping hopes for a Palestinian state. The first debat...
20 Nov 201921min
Bits in pieces: a fragmenting internet
The early vision for a borderless, unregulated internet has not panned out as its pioneers hoped. How to handle the “splinternet”? Doug Jones is Alabama’s first Democratic senator in a quarter of a ce...
19 Nov 201922min
Head for the Hill: this week’s impeachment hearings
Democrats have a hard task as the hearings’ public stage proceeds: not uncovering new evidence, but building a robust public case for impeachment. The online-grocery business is tough—but that isn’t s...
18 Nov 201921min
Better the devil they know? Sri Lanka’s election
After multiple suicide bombings in April, much campaigning has been about security. Will Sri Lankans vote tomorrow for the authoritarian-but-effective candidate, or the more untested peacemaker? We ex...
15 Nov 201921min
Language barrier: Cameroon’s forgotten conflict
There is widespread terror in the largely Francophone country’s English-speaking region. Both hardline separatists and the army target civilians with shocking brutality. In a Central Asian valley, a t...
14 Nov 201922min
Umbrellas to firebombs: Hong Kong’s escalating protests
Molotov cocktails are flying and live rounds have been fired. Once-peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations are transforming into violent confrontations—and neither side seems willing to back down. The a...
13 Nov 201921min
The American Dreamer: DACA in the Supreme Court
The Trump administration has long wanted to scrap the “Dreamers” scheme, which allowed illegal immigrants who came as youths to stay in America. The question is whether the programme’s founding was le...
12 Nov 201922min
