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    Paris, the Olympics and the reinvention of a city

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  • Saturday, 29 June, 2024
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    Simon Schama’s history of British elections

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  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
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    A group of people sit or stand on the grass waving French flags
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
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    The campaign against the asset manager has left festivals struggling to adapt to a new age of protest

  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
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    What happened to liberal conservatism?

    The liberal side of the Tory tradition is everywhere in retreat. Much depends on whether it can reassert itself

    The back of a man in a white shirt, no  jacket, in a marquee adorned with lots of small union jack flags
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
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    Return to Janesville — life after manufacturing in America’s heartland

    When its GM plant closed in 2008, the small Wisconsin city was hit hard. What does its present state tell us about the US today?

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  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
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    What went wrong with capitalism

    America has become unhealthily dependent on loose money and big government, argues Ruchir Sharma

  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
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    Interview with a soldier

    Novelist Chigozie Obioma spent years seeking out veterans of the Biafran war. Then an encounter with an active serviceman helped him understand the conflict that still haunts Nigeria

    Three soldiers holding rifles stand on a street where there are many spent bullets
  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
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    Jürgen Klopp and the leading of Liverpool

    How did the German football manager cast such a spell over the city? There was much more to it than results, writes Lynsey Hanley

    Football fans in red scarves stand in the street looking into the distance
  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
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    Lessons from history for the modern Middle East

    The ‘Damascus Events’ of 1860 are a warning of how societies can collapse into violence — and also an example of how they can recover

    A young man walks past a lone tree growing among the ruins of buildings
  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
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    The week that shook Columbia

    Protests over Gaza at the New York university have led to divisions and arrests. History professor Mark Mazower gives a first-hand account

    A crowd of people gather in a college square where tents have been pitched for protesters
  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
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    Kant and the case for peace

    Three centuries after his birth, the Prussian philosopher’s arguments for a rational, clear-eyed pacifism are more relevant than ever

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  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
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    The untold human stories of China’s economic boom

    There’s a personal dimension to the nation’s rapid transformation that is crucial to our understanding of it — yet mostly hidden from view

    A girl or young woman with long black hair, white blouse, skirt and trainers sits on a wall facing towards a cityscape of tower blocks and a gleaming skyscraper
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