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 on Algerian politics, The Battlefield; a meticulous historical study of Kabyle society, ...

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

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...

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 ...