In 1945 the Resistance invited ordinary French people to imagine their country’s future. A long-forgotten archive reveals their hopes and fears.

The US public are resisting the construction of the vast data centres AI needs to achieve exponential growth. This is only the most visible sign of mounting opposition to the technology.

With the war in Ukraine reshaping regional politics, Washington is applying its transactional approach to the Balkans through energy projects and political alliances, exposing the limits of EU influence.

After four years of war, Moscow has already scaled back some of its key demands. Europe must now offer both sides a path to a lasting peace.

The EU promises the Balkans a bright future within the bloc. Yet enlargement remains stalled while member states profit from the Balkans’ skilled labour, mineral resources – and migration control.

Once staunchly pro-Palestinian, India under Narendra Modi has forged close ties with Israel that are about more than arms sales: there’s a deep ideological affinity between Hindu nationalism and Zionism.

Iraq inherited an awkward geography on independence in 1932 and has spent a century trying to escape it. Now, competing claims to maritime zones and hydrocarbon reserves are reigniting old disputes.

Democratic criticism of Trump’s wars in Iran and Israel’s assault on Gaza has been cautious, almost procedural. The party remains attached to a foreign policy doctrine that many supporters have abandoned.

Militarily, the US might be ‘utterly dominant’, but that does not guarantee achieving its strategic goals. Iran is only the latest reminder of that.

The Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve is the world’s largest mangrove forest. But as rising seas erode the delta, the balance between conservation and human survival is fragile.

Indonesia’s leftwing activists used to believe Reformasi would produce economic policy that was pro organised labour. They’re still waiting.

Between 1904 and 1908 colonial troops in German South West Africa killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama. Their descendants feel powerless in the face of impending economic upheavals.