With the exception of the Acropolis in Athens, the most visited ancient Greek site is Delphi but there was another oracle that provides an equally fascinating glimpse into a culture that is other. Sean Sheehan An oracle, blessed with precognition, can prophesise and this ability to predict the […]
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The war is tearing apart the lives of Palestinian women
Loss of family members, the rise in female-headed households and the deterioration of healthcare services are worsening living conditions in Gaza. In the West Bank, deaths, military operations, and forced displacements are widening the consequences of the conflict across the female population. Towards the end of October this year, […]
Lula and the victory that defied the right’s power
In the face of the economic and digital power of the right, the Brazilian president achieved a seemingly improbable victory. His journey of political endurance and the mobilisation of millions of citizens on the streets and on social media resulted in a collective triumph that transcends Brazil’s borders and renews […]
Dominican rice: tariff withdrawn, open struggle
The elimination of tariff measures which protected Dominican rice are putting at risk a trade which generates around 300,000 jobs directly and indirectly, and which sustains thousands of rural families. It has ignited a debate. Mariela Pérez The controversy intensified after President Luis Abinader issued Decree 635-26, which […]
Forest dreams
An anthropologist, with field work in Alaska behind her, moves across the Bering Strait to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East. There she finds the animist impulse of which only traces had remained with indigenous Alaskans. Sean Sheehan She meets the reindeer-herding Even people who, under […]
















