Goya’s lessons for a world at war
Why the great Spanish painter’s work still resonates so urgently.
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The age of danger
Order is breaking down as the great powers take sides in multiple wars.
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Ukraine is Europe’s problem now
Germany expects a long war of attrition in Ukraine. That is a war Putin is likely to win.
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The new age of global threats
For decades, the West enjoyed the fruits of the post-Cold War “peace dividend”. This era is now definitively over.
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Israel and Iran’s deadly game
They bet that direct attacks would not lead to a disastrous escalation. The Middle East is now on the brink.
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Why Iran’s attack on Israel failed
The drone and missile strike conveyed as much weakness as it did strength.
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The Israel-Iran endgame
What the West doesn’t get about the Iranian regime.
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Natalia Ponomarchuk: “War has its sounds. I recognise them wherever they appear”
The Ukrainian conductor on fleeing Kyiv, Mendelssohn and why “war shows the true faces of people”.
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Dune: Part Two depicts a world of ceaseless struggle – like our own
Resource scarcity, neo-feudalism, perpetual conflict: Denis Villeneuve’s film is not a fantasy but an epiphany of the present.
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War and the West Bank
Settler violence in the occupied territory is intensifying, and Palestinian deaths are mounting.
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The West is revealing its hand to Putin
Emmanuel Macron’s threats to send ground troops to Ukraine only exposes Europe’s deepening divisions over the war.
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The forgotten wars
This century’s deadliest conflicts aren’t taking place in Ukraine or Gaza.
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Layla Moran: “I’m searching for kernels of hope in the rubble”
The Liberal Democrat MP on polarisation and her relatives trapped in Gaza.
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Time is running out in Gaza
Israel’s war is coming to a crunch point.
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John Mearsheimer: “The Israel lobby is as powerful as ever”
The American international relations scholar on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and power competition in the Middle East.
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The fractured reality of Israel’s war in Gaza
From the ICJ ruling to the defunding of UNRWA, global divisions over the conflict are becoming further entrenched.
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Who is winning?
Parsing the narrative shifts in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Former Israeli prime minister: “Time to stop the war”
Ehud Olmert on the war in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future and the possibility of a two-state solution.
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The slipperiness of ceasefire
Why the path to peace is shorter in Gaza than Ukraine.
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How Israel’s war spread to the Red Sea
Yemen’s Houthis are allies of Iran but not proxies. They believe they are carrying out the will of God.
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