Here’s what happens in the brain when we disagree
Is there anything that can make us listen to a carefully reasoned opinion?
Politics & Conflict
Notes from the frontier
Digital tech gives us the illusion of a borderless world – but it goes hand in hand with the violent sorting of human beings.
“The only way to fight a false story told well is to tell a true story better.”
Q&A with Suketu Mehta, author of "This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto".
Book review: Placeless People
Lyndsey Stonebridge's book about displacement attempts to find words to articulate the horror of being without a home.
Book review: This Is Not Propaganda
Peter Pomerantsev's new book documents how we increasingly live in a virtual world governed neither by borders nor law or reason.
The empire strikes back
Many pundits connect Brexit to imperial nostalgia – but its relationship with national identity is complex.
Imagined communities
Usually associated with the political right, nationalism is dynamic and versatile enough to take liberal and left-wing forms too.
Perestroika in Central Asia?
Following the death of the late Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, reform is finally in the air.
A welcome change in Northern Ireland
After years of campaigning, laws bringing abortion and marriage rights into line with the rest of the UK have passed.
“Laughing is not a political action”
Q&A with Ece Temelkuran, author of "How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship".