‘Almost divine power’: the lawyers who sign off who lives and who dies in modern war zones
Military lawyers told me how they must make split-second decisions that weigh military variables against real human lives.
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Military lawyers told me how they must make split-second decisions that weigh military variables against real human lives.
Colonial police organisations used similar arguments to uphold their power as were heard in the trial of George Floyd’s murderer.
A missing girl, a sensational trial, and the troubled history of anti-trafficking.
The children argue failure to tackle climate change constitutes youth discrimination.
How will we record the pandemic and its effectson our lives? How will we look back at the significance of the present in the future?
Dead cities are enduring images in post-apocalyptic literature and cinema.
Is a second wave of coronavirus the price of freedom?
Converting Istanbul’s Byzantine churches implies a hierarchy prioritising the city’s Islamic past over all other periods.
Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orbán’s regime is a case in point.
For indigenous people in the Amazon, the lockdown may be a greater worry than the coronavirus disease itself.
