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    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      FT SeriesA year under the Taliban
      How we live now: Afghanistan’s women speak

      Over the course of a year of Taliban rule, a group of women writers share their thoughts, fears and dreams via a messaging app

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      The anxious generation — what’s bothering Britain’s schoolchildren?

      As her students await their A-level results, Lucy Kellaway reports on what schools are doing to tackle a mental health crisis

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
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      A whole new world? Disney after ‘Don’t Say Gay’

      The entertainment giant’s bungled response to a controversial Florida bill has raised difficult questions for its LGBT+ fans

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Inside Ukraine’s open-source war

      Digital networks are helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion. Will they also reshape the future of conflict?

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Is Britain tiring of the culture wars?

      Brexit was supposed to have left the country bitterly divided. But Henry Mance finds identity battles losing their grip on the national conversation

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Should artists have a stake in their own work?

      The resurgent $65bn art market has led to rampant speculation around the work of young artists — who see little of the profit

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Have we had enough of the nanny employer?

      Companies pushed hard to attend to workers’ needs during the pandemic. But have they encroached too far into our personal lives?

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Abortion in America — the road to rolling back Roe vs Wade

      Most in the US believe the landmark 1973 decision should have been retained. Lyz Lenz, raised in the Christian right, explains how a coalition was built to overturn it

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
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      Can the Conservatives keep the ‘blue wall’ from crumbling?

      Sebastian Payne tours affluent Surrey to assess the threat to the Tories’ suburban heartlands — and asks the prime minister how he plans to fight back

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
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      Why we trust fraudsters

      From Enron to Wirecard, elaborate scams can remain undetected long after the warning signs appear. What are investors missing?

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Bloom or bust: what James Joyce can teach us about economics

      A century on from the publication of ‘Ulysses’, David McWilliams asks whether artists and entrepreneurs are really that different

    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
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      Still Top Gun? What Tom Cruise’s new movie tells us about American power

      The film reflects anxiety over the US’s relative decline in the face of China’s high-tech military might

    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The truckers who keep our world moving

      On the road across Europe, Horatio Clare battles bureaucracy, bad drivers and zealous police to deliver cargo to Ukraine

    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
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      What the CIA thinks: William Burns on the new world disorder

      Fifty years after Nixon’s cold war coup, the US is facing a new global realignment

    • Friday, 6 May, 2022
      Geopolitics
      Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war

      As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world

    • Friday, 29 April, 2022
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      Hong Kong, my vanishing city

      Facing a political crackdown, austere Covid rules and an uncertain future, many Hong Kongers are fleeing into exile — and battling to preserve their identity

    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
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      Macron, Le Pen and France’s long battle between order and dissent

      Charles de Gaulle said the French were ‘ingouvernables’. Do the country’s widening divisions prove him right?

    • Friday, 15 April, 2022
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      Natalia Sindeyeva: Russia’s unlikely media revolutionary

      Once a socialite, she founded a TV channel that became a beacon of Russian dissent. Now, in exile, she’s plotting her next move

    • Friday, 8 April, 2022
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      Seven lessons from a late-starting entrepreneur

      After three decades writing about business, the FT’s innovation editor decided to get his hands dirty . . . 

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      What war in Ukraine means for the age of the autocrat

      The world’s strongmen are watching Vladimir Putin’s gamble play out in Ukraine — and the consequences of his success or failure will be global

    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
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      Polina Ivanova, Gillian Tett, Henry Foy, Courtney Weaver, and professor and former USSR-based journalist Anatol Lieven will take your questions at 4pm GMT/12pm EST

    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine: free to read
      Russia, Ukraine and Europe’s 200-year quest for peace

      Generations of leaders have wrestled over a lasting settlement in Europe. What can today’s negotiators learn from centuries of statecraft?

    • Friday, 18 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine: free to read
      Maria Stepanova: the war of Putin’s imagination

      An award-winning Russian writer on how fear as well as dictatorship led her homeland to launch its disastrous invasion of Ukraine

    • Friday, 11 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine: free to read
      Inside Putin’s circle — the real Russian elite

      As the west focuses on oligarchs, a far smaller group has its grip on true power in Moscow. Who are the siloviki — and what motivates them?

    • Friday, 4 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine: free to read
      Francis Fukuyama: Putin’s war on the liberal order

      Democratic values were already under threat around the world before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now we need to rekindle the spirit of 1989

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