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Can Europe stand up to the US big-tech juggernaut?

The repeated interventions of Elon Musk, the boss of social network X (as well as Tesla and SpaceX), are raising hard questions. Can Europe’s public debate and elections ever be free of the scourge of foreign disinformation? And now Musk has been joined by TikTok, the Chinese-owned platform, and Meta, the company controlled by Mark…
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"Brutalist" paves the way for the return of long films. And very well

. This year's winner of several Golden Globes and an Oscar favorite is a monumental film, which also manifests itself in its length - viewers must prepare for a screening that lasts 215 minutes, and that's not including the quarter-hour intermission midway through the film. Some may question whether Brady Corbet needed nearly four hours…
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Cheap living, or the ultimate crisis of capitalism [interview].

. Jakub Majmurek: When we ask the average person what object best symbolizes modern capitalism, the answer would most likely be a smartphone or a microprocessor. You in your book History of the World in Seven Cheap Things give a completely different answer: the best symbol of the current form of capitalism is chicken nuggets.…
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Trump gave Putin everything he demanded. Now the survival of Europe is at stake

. On Wednesday, the worst-case scenario for Ukraine became the most likely. The United States is ready to give back to Russia the Ukrainian territories it occupies and block Ukraine's NATO membership. Europe can deploy its troops in Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping mission, but in the event of an attack from Russia, NATO…
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Last Generation: When you see a hand stuck to the asphalt, remember that the other hand is reaching out to you

. From the editors: The Last Generation Blocs, young climate activists, have become the most prominent movement of civil resistance within a year of the Democratic Coalition parties taking power - and they have divided Poland. The Blocs. We offered the activists of the Last Generation a place on our website - so that they…
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Hanna Perekhoda: ‘The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascist forces’

Hanna Perekhoda is a historian and researcher at the University of Lausanne – Institute of Political Studies and Centre for International History and Political Studies of Globalisation, specialising in nationalism in the context of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Her doctoral research examines the political strategies of the Bolsheviks in Ukraine between 1917 and the…
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Express liquidation of the United States of America

. On behalf of President Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk has begun a rapid dismantling of the US state's systems. First to fly was the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which Trump's government portrays as either a waste of money or an outright threat to Americans. Stories have been circulating on social media…
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Those who fight and those who don’t: the Ukrainians called to the front and the “Generation Putin” in Russia

The independent Russian newspaper-in-exile Meduza devotes a lengthy article (originally published in Signal, a Russian-language newsletter) to the "people have come of age, and now make up the cohort of young adults who will inherit whatever follows Vladimir Putin in Russia". This is a group that the press has called "Generation Putin", which is perhaps…
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Andrei Kurkov: ‘We needed a war to show that Ukraine is different from Russia’

Andrei Kurkov (b. 1961) is one of Ukraine’s most prolific and eclectic writers. He has covered several themes linked to Ukraine’s recent history – especially after the 2004 Orange revolution, as well as several thriller stories, some almost surrealistic, set in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union.His most famous novel is Death and…
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Doechii - everything a (female) rap needs

. "I like pixies, I like drugs, I like money, I like strippers, I like getting fucked, I like daytime drinking, daytime parties, and Hollywood. I like to do Hollywood-style shit. Dash? I would probably snort. What can I say? That shit works, makes me feel good," raps Doechii in the track Denial Is A…
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Zhukovsky: The opposite of feminism is ignorance

. The library in our district has had a feminist section for several years. Literature written by women, essays, accessibly written sociology, history and cultural studies. Also books for children, for example, a superbly illustrated book on gender differences, one of a series that also includes an explanation of class differences and mechanisms of discrimination.…
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Feminism in a state of emergency: Operation Hyacinth, care and the "tender eyes of Leviathan" [interview].

. Paulina Malochleb: One of your strong theses, expressed in your book "Feminism as Social Philosophy. Sketches in Family Theory" says that the Western legal subject was created by John Locke and was based on the idea of an adult male having full privileges, knowing the law, having full authority over the family and a…
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The Danube flows backwards: orbánisation spreads upstream

The Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, once the enfant terrible of European politics and the herald of "illiberal democracy", is attracting an growing cohort of admirers. Yet these mini-Orbáns may find their path less assured, and the future need not be as dark as it seems. "Austria under Kickl: Orbán Next Door," writes Patrick Guyton…
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Losing privileges

https://youtu.be/sPTIro1JzMc More and more young people are using social media way too much, according to a survey by the World Health Organisation. The proportion of adolescents with problematic use rose from 7 per cent in 2018 to 11 per cent four years later.  Of course, some content is more harmful than others. It is known…
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Climate-conscious Europe braces for fossil-fuelled Trump 2.0

The return of Donald Trump to the White House signals a sharp U-turn on US climate policy, with consequences reaching far beyond American borders. From dismantling Joe Biden-era climate regulations to fostering alliances with European climate sceptics, Trump’s policies could slow global decarbonisation efforts and embolden fossil fuel interests. As reported first by Audrey Garric…
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