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The Battle Over Euroclear and Russia’s Frozen Billions

The EU has begun to use frozen Russian assets in Brussels to fund Ukraine’s war effort, and has triggered Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European... Read full article

Alex Gloy - December 17, 2025

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Outside the Box
Claude’s Challenge: Are We Ready for an AI That Thinks Ethically?
by Peter Isackson
Business
Yemen’s Economy Is Built on Imports: The STC Must Lead the Shift to Production
by Abdul Galil Shaif
Central & South Asia
Feeding Indonesia’s Future, or Poisoning its Promise?
by Kurniawan Arif Maspul
Latin America & the Caribbean
All Muscle, Little Friends: Ecuador’s Foreign Policy Problem
by Jan Minke Contreras

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

by Vikram K. Malkani, Atul Singh & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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The Story of World War II

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique & Anton Schauble

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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

by Ellis Cashmore

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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Kashmir’s Forgotten Houseboats

by Mohsin Mushtaq

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A Century of Royal Scandal: Britain’s Shocking Monarchy

by Ellis Cashmore

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In the Marketplace for Saints, the Pickings are Slim

Today’s culture has replaced traditional virtue with success-worship. Where saints and civic heroes once embodied shared ideals, today’s leaders proudly...

Europe Endorses Assisted Dying: Its Own Suicide

European leaders are now invoking "existential threats" from Russia to justify military spending, a trend Shakespeare...

The Devil’s Advocate Guide to AI’s Truly Hyperreal Future

AI is evolving from chatbots to “world models” with spatial intelligence that understand physical reality. But...

Nobody’s Girl: Virginia Giuffre’s Memoir Reached Libraries Six Months After Her Suicide

Virginia Giuffre’s memoir, Nobody’s Girl, and life story reveal a...

by Laura Pavon

Australia’s Idiotic Social Media Ban

by Ellis Cashmore

The World Must Act to Save Darfur’s Innocents From Further Massacre

by Gerald Walker

Republicans Test the Limits of Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression

by Pooka MacPhellimey

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The Dialectic: France: The Eternal Crisis Strikes Again. What Now?

In this episode of The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle examine France’s deepening polycrisis. Rising debt, political paralysis and failing institutions are causing despair in a highly centralized state created first by Louis XIV. The French reliance on such a centralized state has produced...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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