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This article was first published by Index on Censorship on 10 April 2025. It appeared in Volume 54, Issue 1 of Index on Censorship’s print magazine, titled: The forgotten patients: Lost voices in the global healthcare system. Read more about the issue here. Most children say their first word between the ages of 12 and 18 months. But…

The emotional charge of politics has increased in the past decades. Expert governance and fact-based leadership were the leading claims in the 2000s, often ignoring that expertise wasn’t a neutral position either. As the pendulum swings back, strongly charged political speech is king today, and the conventional politicians who cannot muster this are openly mocked. …

Sometimes a phrase gets stuck in your head. Year after year, it pops up, often triggered by specific situations or places. For me, it is impossible to walk pass a cemetery without silently whispering, ‘history is a graveyard of aristocrats’. Pretentious as it may be, I always say it in Italian: la storia è un…

Just where on earth are flying cars, wondered American anthropologist David Graeber 12 years ago. Like all of us who grew up in the 1960s watching The Flintstones, he believed that flying cars would become part of our adult life by the year 2000. But instead, he lamented, 60 years later, we have technologies that…

Since 24 February 2022, it will have become clear to everyone that Russia has not only challenged but also violated in every respect the European security order embodied by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and its two founding documents, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act and the 1990 Charter of Paris –…

It is sometimes said that the Second World War began in the Horn of Africa, in 1935, with Italy’s war of aggression on Ethiopia. It is almost never said that it ended there. And yet, it was the first place in the world where the fighting came to an end. Hostilities in Eritrea, then an…

­­For much of the second half of the twentieth century, the Second World War and its aftermath were interlaced with western Europe’s present. The war was understood to have birthed the world that emerged in its wake. This is no longer so. Our present has been uncoupled from its twentieth-century past. The Second World War…

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