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- 1From:Geographical (Vol. 94, Issue 5)Adecade on from my first visit to La Paz in 2004, my early-morning flight touched down at El Alto's airport, 4,061.5 metres above sea level. The lethargic immigration officials seemed a little surprised by the sudden...
- 2From:Foreign Affairs (Vol. 100, Issue 5)The Islamic Republic of Iran is a state divided against itself. Since its inception in 1979, it has been defined by tension between the president, who heads its elected government, and the supreme leader, who leads the...
- 3From:New Internationalist (Issue 532)In the capital, Dhaka, flyovers, metro rails and high rises are being rapidly constructed above the heads of the poor. A show of new infrastructure, often poorly planned, seems to be the only way in which Bangladesh...
- 4From:Artforum International (Vol. 59, Issue 4)NESTLED ALONG the Belgian-French border lies a sleepy hamlet by the name of Risquons-Tout, or "risk everything." In 1848, it served as a point of entry for two thousand Belgian emigres returning home to overthrow the...
- 5From:Spectator (Vol. 338, Issue 9929-31)MPs were warned that they might have to give up part of their holidays to deal with Brexit. Here are some other political crises from Christmases past: 1066 William I was crowned on 25 December. Trouble was expected...
- 6From:Spectator (Vol. 338, Issue 9920)In the historic heart of Riga, Latvia's lively capital, stands a monument which sums up this country's stormy past. The Freedom Monument was built in 1935 to commemorate the war of independence in which patriotic...
- 7From:Spectator (Vol. 337, Issue 9912)Jeremy Corbyn was attacked for attending a ceremony for members of Black September, the terrorist group which carried out the Munich Olympics massacre in 1972. The group took its name from a PLO terror campaign in...
- 8From:Canadian Parliamentary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2)Prince Edward Island's Province House was very much a work-in-progress as it was being built--with budgets and popular opinion changing the scope of the project several times and leaving some quirky architectural...
- 9From:New Statesman (Vol. 147, Issue 5411-5412)Once part of a great empire, Hungary has become used to standing alone. But as Viktor Orban prepares for re-election as prime minister, his corrupt and puffed-up regime is spreading fear and anxiety The northbound...
- 10From:Canadian Parliamentary Review (Vol. 40, Issue 4)The exposure of the remains of the Parliament of United-Canada in recent years by Pointe-a-Calliere culminated in 2017 with massive archaeological excavations. Coinciding with Montreal's 375th anniversary and...
- 11From:Spectator (Vol. 335, Issue 9872)Americans may be able to draw on only 250 years of history, but they're not shy of making a song and dance of it. In early December, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's $1 billion-grossing, hip-hop and show-tune extravaganza...
- 12From:The New Yorker (Vol. 93, Issue 35)Byline: Charles Bethea Spitting Image Jim Warlick was peering into a dark tractor-trailer parked in an airplane hangar in northeast Georgia. Inside was a four-thousand-pound Oval Office, broken down into...
- 13From:The New Yorker (Vol. 93, Issue 28)Byline: Louis Menand Drop Your Weapons What happens when you outlaw war. On August 27, 1928, in Paris, with due pomp and circumstance, representatives of fifteen nations signed an agreement outlawing war. The...
- 14From:Geographical (Vol. 89, Issue 9)WHAT HAPPENS when a UN stabilisation mission leaves a country in which it had been charged with aiding the restitution of a 'secure and stable environment'? In June 2004, the UN established...
- 15From:Geographical (Vol. 89, Issue 4)The name 'Tel Aviv' in Hebrew literally means 'old new land'. It's an effective summary. Tel Aviv is both a very old and very new city. Its oldest neighbourhood, Jaffa, situated upon a headland along the southern...
- 16From:The Economist (Vol. 422, Issue 9027)Big Jim Folsom puts his enormous feet up Big Jim Folsom puts his enormous feet up In Alabama, support for Donald Trump followed a pattern that stretches back more than a century "IMAGINE," says Glenn Drummond,...
- 17From:Spectator (Vol. 333, Issue 9833)Whether it's liberal reforms with Macron or nationalism with Le Pen, the French seem about to vote for radical change. That doesn't mean they'll get it Is France on the brink of a political revolution? Already, four...
- 18From:The Economist (Vol. 422, Issue 9027)In its integration, India is somewhere between the United States and the European Union IN A speech to London's Constitutional Club in 1931, Winston Churchill poured scorn on the idea of India. "India is a...
- 19From:New Statesman (Vol. 146, Issue 5352)I spent last week in Prague, the first time there since we shot Amadeus in 1983. It seems ludicrous that 33 years have passed since then because the film, of course, is exactly as it was when we shot it, though both...
- 20From:The New York Times MagazineAt the climax of the Broadway musical ''Hamilton,'' Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton exchange a series of increasingly hostile letters in the song ''Your Obedient Servant.'' Burr enumerates a litany of perceived...