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If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...

In the Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, I got into an argument with an Israeli woman who was tearing down Art...

Before the war, Muhammad had been the most energetic of us. He wasn’t tall, but he never saw that as an obstacle. He...

Unfortunately for Mexicans, Mexico has moved to the top of the US foreign policy agenda. After Trump kidnapped the...

Last summer, the singer Akon announced that Akon City – the ‘real-life Wakanda’ that he planned to build on the...

It’s unusual for a defeated candidate in an Irish parliamentary by-election to make headlines outside the country. But...

Two marches will assemble in central London tomorrow. One is championing the rights of Palestinians and commemorating 78...

A hantavirus outbreak is extremely unexpected. Part of the confusion in press coverage has arisen from the messiness of...

The Haganah attacked Beersheba on 21 October 1948. A week later, David Ben-Gurion came to inspect the town. He admired...

To understand Walter Benjamin’s life, it is best to begin with his death. Attempting to flee Nazi-occupied France, he...

By now, a production of John Adams’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer presumes its own opposition. At the Teatro del...

In the month since the ceasefire on 8 April, Trump’s rhetoric has swung erratically between talk of total victory and...

I rediscovered the power of abstract painting on a trip to New Mexico. From high above Albuquerque, the tawny, light-...

He said the boiler could be fixed but it would be better to replace it. He put the call to the supplier on speakerphone...

Charles III’s state visit to the US occasioned a good deal of commentary either celebrating the ‘special...

The successful passage of the 2026 Tobacco and Vapes Act into law is a major milestone on the journey towards achieving...

Last Wednesday, the reporter Amal Khalil and photojournalist Zeinab Faraj were on assignment in south Lebanon when...

J.H. Prynne has always seemed to me to represent the real potential of poetry, as an art that can encompass everything,...

J.H. Prynne died on Wednesday at the age of 89, after a prolific life as a teacher and essayist, a loyal friend to his...

The UK’s nuclear weapons capability is dependent on the US. Not only does Britain rent its Trident missiles from...