Standing with strangers, a Tbilisi story As Georgians resist their government and a turn towards Moscow, a British journalist reflects on her time in Georgia and what she learned about authoritarianism, exile, belonging and resistance feature Frankie Mills
The Chilean curse is its abundance of riches In Donald Trump’s famously transactional foreign policy, the critical resources of sovereign countries, from oil to rare earths, are being weaponized in a superpower struggle for control and dominance feature Phineas Rueckert
Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI His investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions. perspective Nic Dawes
The crackdown on pro-Palestinian gatherings in Germany A ban on protests is raising deep questions about who is considered part of the nation and what, exactly, Germany has learned from its history. feature Sanders Isaac Bernstein
Europe vs Big Tech: A battle for democracy? Silicon Valley and the U.S. government are positioning their frustration over European regulation as ideological, as a defense of freedom over government control. explainer Ines Vilares
Always on the outside: Exile isn’t about the country you leave When a lie about Haitians in Ohio spread nationwide, a pioneering Haitian-American journalist was forced to ask if belonging will always be conditional. Exile, he realized, is not geography, it’s the distance between who you are and who the nation insists you must be perspective Garry Pierre-Pierre
Imagining the unimaginable annexation of Alberta Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea showed how spreading a narrative can erode sovereignty before any force is necessary: framing borders as conditional and natural resources as rightfully belonging to the powerful. Is America now doing something similar to its closest ally? perspective Natalia Antelava
An execution stayed: Why the Islamic Republic might cling to power in Iran Thousands of protesters have been killed but, as the world urges caution, the Trump administration holds back from intervening perspective Jim Muir
The Identitarians are back: How a discredited worldview dominates the global agenda In 2019, Germany formally classified a nativist movement as extremist. In 2026, the movement’s ideals are standard mainstream politics feature Josephine Lulamae
The Trump corollary: Latin America swings right Will the United States' increasingly interventionist attitude to ‘its hemisphere’ pay dividends? explainer Phineas Rueckert
Welcome to the age of exile Most exile journalism documents symptoms. We're investigating root causes: how displacement has become central to how power operates in the 21st century, how the same networks that enable resistance also enable surveillance, and why sanctuary is shrinking even as exile accelerates. perspective Natalia Antelava
Do Nigeria’s Christians need a savior? The U.S. government has threatened military intervention to prevent a ‘genocide’ in Africa’s largest democracy. But data shows that the escalating violence affects all Nigerians. explainer Olatunji Olaigbe
The Fire This Time: Can America douse the flames? The Civil War never ended. It just shape-shifted. In the midst of a bitterly divisive sociopolitical and cultural war, Americans must rebuild their burning house perspective Garry Pierre-Pierre
Meet Las Marifachas, Spain’s queer conservatives Three gay Spanish influencers are building bridges between LGBTQ+ voters and anti-immigration parties, part of a growing "homonationalist" movement fracturing Europe's progressive coalitions feature Natalie Donback
The danger of hope How to persist when disillusion sets in and effecting change can seem like a pipe dream perspective Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
