The murder of sociologist Hélène Rytmann-Legotien by her husband, the philosopher Louis Althusser, is a terrible yet all too ...

Loneliness in general, and male loneliness in particular, is a social issue and a public health issue, but it has also become ...

Summer has only just begun, but the wildfire season is already in full swing. For several weeks now, Europe has been hit by ...

Forty years after the explosion at the Chernobyl power plant, Bulgaria’s cover-up reveals how secrecy fuelled distrust while it mobilised scientists and activists. Their action helped spark ...

Companies in the clothing sector are stepping up their sustainability commitments, but a significant proportion of these ...

European clothing brands can still sell garments whose cotton may be linked to exploited farmers and child labour in Pakistan ...

A group of European citizens is proposing the ‘Society of Agreement’, a new social contract combining social justice, ...

In May, Italy's Lega (far-right) led by Matteo Salvini presented a bill to introduce compulsory military or civilian service for all 18-26 year olds, lasting six months. Military service was abolished ...

Along Kosovo's R107 highway, in a landscape of car washes and marble shops that smell of vinegar, the future is in a cooperative that packages ajvar, a roasted red pepper pâté. This cannery is located ...

Taras Bilous is a Ukrainian historian. He is co- editor of Spilne/Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, and an activist of the Sotsialnyi Rukh (“Social Movement”, SR), a left-wing political movement ...

Leaders of the NATO member countries met in Ankara (Turkey) on 7 and 8 July, for a summit—as has become something of a ...

Ruslan Surugiu has better options: given his experience, he could earn significantly more in Germany, where he lived and worked for a long time, and be with his family there. However, he says that ...