The clearing oddly starts from football by Robert Perez

The isolation of Gianni Infantino from FIFA’s member associations would be more than a sporting scandal. It would be a political weather vane. If the world’s football establishment decided that its…

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The politics of taking by Solomon Mensah

South Africa has opened another chapter in the long, unfinished argument over land and inevitably, over race, history and political power. A court case challenging the country’s expropriation law h…

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#eBook: Sunday Mutiny by Kristina Claesson

The girl was small for nine, with hair the colour of dry straw and eyes that seemed to take in everything while giving nothing back. Her name was Elin, and on the first Sunday of June, she simply d…

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Algorithm’s red problem by Mary Long

Artificial intelligence may turn out to be one of the Chinese Communist Party’s greatest achievements and one of its most awkward political inventions. Beijing wants machines that can write, think,…

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The kids are Not alright by Virginia Robertson

For millions of young people, the future has become an invoice. They graduate into economies that demand experience before offering employment, housing markets that regard a salary as an amusing su…

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The finger and Kremlin by Dmitri Kovalev

There are few things more revealing about modern authoritarianism than the spectacle of a government charging a technology entrepreneur with terrorism while the entrepreneur’s own social-media acco…

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The rise of the toll booths by Mathew Walls

There are few things more impressive in geopolitics than watching a superpower manufacture a crisis and then discover that everybody else has brought a cash register. Donald Trump’s latest adventur…

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The longest red card by Kasie Hewitt

There is a peculiar spectacle unfolding in world football, the man at the centre of the storm appears increasingly determined to remain seated in the chair from which everyone else seems to want hi…

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The park that knows you by Casey Norris

For centuries, cities have treated parks as pleasant interruptions to urban life. They were places where lawns softened concrete, where benches offered a brief pause between errands, where children…

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Farage’s long walk back to the joke by Regan O’Sullivan

Nigel Farage’s political career has always contained an amusing contradiction. He has presented himself as the great insurgent against Britain’s political establishment, yet the more seriously he i…

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Floating Through Time #Poem #Painting by Nikos Laios

Wrapped in music,Wrapped in arias,In operas and blues,In pop and jazz,In folk music and rock,In electronic and dance,Floating over the chaosAnd hatred of the world,Over the conflicts andThe religio…

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The reflecting pool of blame by Cassandra Sparks

There is something almost perfectly Washingtonian about a scandal involving the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool; the water is murky, the paint is peeling, somebody is furious and everyone appears …

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The First Nations of the future by Emma Schneider

For this year’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous People the contradictions feel unusually stark. In the United States, the debate surrounding immigration has drifted into territory…

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Aegis without arrows by Edoardo Moretti

The latest Russian missile and drone assault on Kyiv accompanied by renewed pleas from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for more anti-missile systems exposes a strategic contradiction that has been gr…

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The weekend sleep myth by Dai Eun Greer

There is a charming little lie at the heart of modern life, that sleep, like laundry or email, can be postponed until Saturday. We behave as though the human body were an understanding accountant. …

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Buffering peace by Thanos Kalamidas

Israel’s latest semi-rejection and negative sceptism of another proposed peace framework will inevitably reinforce a growing belief, particularly across much of the Middle East and the Global…

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When the ballot fails, temptation begins by Markus Gibbons

Every election cycle produces its share of dramatic predictions, but there is one political instinct that deserves serious attention: when a movement begins to fear it cannot prevail through ordina…

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The feeling machine by Paula Bartlett

There is something unnerving about an AI that knows when to pause before saying “I understand.” The pause may be engineered from millions of examples, but it lands with pressure of sympathy. We rec…

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The Michigan signal by Howard Morton

Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary will inevitably be interpreted as more than the triumph of one candidate over another. In American politics, every prima…

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Ovi thematic eMagazine – Issue #35: Justice vs. Judicature

Welcome to the 35th issue of the Ovi Thematic eMagazine, centered on a very contemporary global discourse: Justice vs. Judicature or ‘Why the Best Laws Fail Under the Worst Men.’ The 35…

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Paradise has reached capacity by Sidney Shelton

There is a peculiar irony in modern tourism. The very people who travel in search of paradise often help destroy the qualities that made it desirable in the first place. Mallorca, once celebrated f…

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