Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...

America’s official chief diplomat is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, but so far his activities have been fairly limited.

Your browser does not support the audio element. In 2013, a group of French and Egyptian archaeologists discovered of cache of papyri as old as the Great Pyramid of ...

The version of Khovanshchina that Mussorgsky left behind when he died was as messy as the history it depicts. He began working on the opera in 1872, the bicentennial of Peter the Great’s birth. For ...

Going into the second round of Ecuador’s elections on 13 April, the polls had the centre-left candidate, Luisa González, neck-and-neck with the far-right president, Daniel Noboa. The night before, ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In the stories of Franz Kafka we find the fantastical wearing the most ordinary, realist dress. Though haunted by ...

The Soviet Women’s Anti-Fascist Committee was set up in 1941 to foster connections with Allied countries and encourage British and US women to ‘invest personally’ in the war effort. Two years later, ...