The Big Idea

Age of Nostalgia

Infatuation with a mythologized history has overtaken communities, cultures, entire regions, sending society and identity into a fun-house mirror of nostalgic reflections. This special issue brings you stories of people finding solace in pasts imagined and grieving for futures foreclosed in a time of existential threats.
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The Big Idea

Battling History

We investigated five battles across Europe over historical events. But none are really about history, they're always a fight over the present.
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The Big Idea

China's repression of journalists: no more borders, no more constraints

China's determination to silence journalists is the culmination of an authoritarian project that models a new level of global repression combining high-tech surveillance with traditional mafia tactics of threats against family
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