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A country where the kitchen is a male only room

In Basque Country, the Sociedades Populares, born at the end of the 1800, are a place that keeps alive a peculiar national identity. Up until a few years ago, it was forbidden for many societies to allow women, also preventing their access to the…

‘Much Loved’: the defiant bodies of Marrakesh

At the movies: The story of three young Moroccan prostitutes reveals the hypocrisy of their society, ruled by violence and corruption, a postcolonial world that turns people into fragile objects.

Relax, TTIP isn’t going anywhere

The Volkswagen scandal, the TPP, harsh American data demands and a groundswell of dissent in Europe may bring the U.S.-E.U. trade deal to a complete standstill.

by Simone Pieranni in Brussels on Oct. 17, 2015

Letter to the Italian Left

Lafontaine: The euro is de-industrializing European countries to the benefit of Germany. The example of Syriza in Greece demonstrates the impossibility of a government alternative and anti-austerity. The Italian left must join forces and build a new monetary system.

If Algeria explodes, we’re all in trouble

North Africa. With President Abdelaziz Bouteflika increasingly ill, the signs of a quiet power struggle are showing. If the tension bursts, the devastation would be far worse than the Algerian war of the ’90s or the Libyan conflict.

The Leviathan of Silicon Valley

An interview with Evgeny Morozov

As Silicon Valley envisions a coming cyber-utopia, author Evgeny Morozov sees the opposite: an undemocratic dystopia in which technology is a tool of the powerful and privacy is a commodity…