Julio Alberto Barajas Servin
Mexico has adopted rules requiring broadcasters to flag programmes that mix news and opinion. Julio Alberto Barajas Servin argues that these labels should be judged by whether the people they are meant to help notice and understand them. A legal duty matters little when viewers cannot use the signal to distinguish news from commentary Read more
Azher Hameed Qamar
In the run-up to Sweden's 2026 election, far-right parties treated the hijab as proof that migrants neither belong nor can be assimilated. Azher Hameed Qamar argues that this debate reveals a democratic tension. Does equality demand sameness? Or does it protect participation despite cultural differences Read more
Haktan Ural
Haktan Ural draws on social media posts from Türkiye's anti-alimony campaigns to show how a currency crash and years of economic insecurity fuelled rage against gender equality. When progressive politics failed to answer economic pain, anti-gender movements stepped in Read more
Saima Afzal
Pakistan has emerged as an important diplomatic channel between Iran and the United States. Saima Afzal explains why Islamabad’s relationships with Iran, Washington and the Gulf often seen as a difficult balancing act have instead become a source of diplomatic leverage Read more
Amélie Godefroidt
A quarter-century after 9/11, Islamist terrorism no longer dominates headlines. But has the public really become less responsive to it? Many politicians, journalists, and scholars think so. But research by Amélie Godefroidt, Micha Germann, and Fernando Mendez suggests that Islamist attacks continue to shape political attitudes in Western democracies as much as they did two decades ago Read more
Eytan Ellenberg
Eytan Ellenberg uses Israel’s fragmented party system to ask four questions often collapsed into one: can a new party enter parliament, enlarge its political bloc, improve its chances of governing, and reconfigure the alliances through which a majority becomes possible? Read more
Veronica Anghel
Icelanders have voted against reopening accession talks with the European Union. Veronica Anghel and Erik Jones claim that the result prevents Iceland from seeking a formal decision-making role for now, but changes nothing about how deeply Iceland already participates in the European project Read more
Alia Qaim Bukhari
Alia Qaim Bukhari argues that Pakistan's merger of its Federally Administered Tribal Areas did not replace older land authority. Legal procedures, customary shares, oral histories and British records have accumulated, leaving the state to determine which forms of evidence should count when competing claims collide Read more
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