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Grand angle - Behind the scenes of history

1. Security was reinforced on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. over the past few weeks, following the assault that took ...

On parle d'eux

1.~Jack Monroe In the U.K., children from poorer families used to receive a £30 food voucher every week, in order ...

Why everyone loves to blame France

1. The French, wrote George Canning, a British statesman, to a ministerial colleague in 1825, “have but two rules of ...

Focus

1.~France and Britain: Frenemies forever?   Did the French create England? French nobleman, William The Conqueror won over the English ...

How the EU reshaped Britain

1. Despite half a century of belonging to the EU club, most British people say their emotional bonds to Europe are not ...

The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable

1. The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence that now ...

What the Pandemic Has Done for Dating

1. In a year when sharing space and air with people is potentially dangerous, one would think that dating would ...

Sur le vif

1.~Where are the police? Protesters who stormed the Capitol building did run into problems with the police – but many ...

À 360°

1.~BANGLADESH Red hot chili pickers These scarlet fields are covered in chili plants, ready to be picked. In rural Bangladesh, ...

The dawn of digital medicine

1. When it comes to digitisation, health care has lagged behind banking, travel, retail, carmaking and even packaged goods. Some ...

Republicans Splinter Over Whether to Make a Full Break From Trump

1. President Donald Trump not only inspired a mob to storm the Capitol on January 6th — he also brought ...

250 years of first lady portraiture

1. Bess Truman, US first lady from 1945 until 1953, has not become the sort of historical figure people quote ...

Zoom sur Daisy Johnson

1.~Early life Daisy Johnson was born in 1990 in southern England. She always wanted to be a writer and pursued ...

Les échos

1.~Kamala Harris' Vogue cover Kamala Harris is Vogue's cover star this February – but, according to journalists and activists, she ...

Seeing color: A Matter of Nature, or Culture?

1. The days have turned gray; the future feels black. We’re all seeing red; we’re all feeling blue. Perhaps it’s ...

Rewilding in the Scottish Highlands

1. The purple of the Highlands in early autumn can drive the dourest of Scots to poetry, but Renwick Drysdale, who ...

Le dessin

1.~A bit of history Before Donald Trump, Richard Nixon was widely considered to be the worst President in the history ...