In an interview with El País, Scottish writer Douglas Stuart speaks about the subjects that have defined both his life and his fiction: poverty, fractured families, homosexuality, class and the enduring difficulty
“What we are seeing is the redistribution of the ways that they funnel money,” Ella Rosenberg says, describing a shift that reflects not only tactical adaptation but a structural evolution in how
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Yves Goulet is a former public servant whose professional life was deeply enmeshed within Canada’s intelligence architecture for over three decades. He commenced his career in 1994 with the Canadian Security Intelligence
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M.K. Stalin has cast the upcoming Assembly election as far more than a routine political contest, describing it as a defining confrontation between what he
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, one of the most influential figures in modern musical theatre, has revealed the depth of his struggle with alcoholism and the dramatic personal and professional transformation that has followed
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Few living figures embody Hungary’s turbulent modern history as fully as Paul Lendvai. Born in 1929 in Budapest, he survived the Holocaust, was imprisoned under communism, fled the country after the failed
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José Gil, one of Portugal’s most influential contemporary philosophers, delivers a blunt warning about the future of democracy: without radical reinvention, societies are drifting toward a new form of authoritarian rule shaped
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As his presidency enters its final months, Gustavo Petro is no longer tempering his words. Facing the end of his term on August 7, Colombia’s first left wing president in decades has
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What compels a young woman raised in comfort to seek proximity to violence? What does it mean to voluntarily step into conversations with those who openly declare allegiance to brutality? And how
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What does it mean when a soldier describes his own life not as a sequence of postings, but as an unbroken continuity between home, border, and operational responsibility? This question sits beneath
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Does witnessing suffering make you more moral? Can a life surrounded by brilliance teach you justice, or does real understanding only come from seeing the world at its worst? For Tom Gross,
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