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Injections, Makeup, Stress: The New Religion of Beauty

The beauty boom sells the dream of individuality while making faces more alike than ever. Beyond the glow, gloss and injections lies a hard new currency: appearance as capital.

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Former U.S. Security Adviser John Bolton: "We Have Passed Peak Trump"

John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser, warns Ukraine against making too many concessions in the peace negotiations. And says that Trump is being manipulated by Putin.

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Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz: An Alliance of the Illiberal Right with Tech?

former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is traveling the world as a businessman. And he is making sure to maintain his close ties to those with power. Might he be considering a return to politics?

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Fast Fashion Exploitation: How the Clothes-Hanger Wars Escalated in Italy

A double murder in Rome shook Italy's Chinese community. The trail led to Prato, the heart of the fast-fashion industry - where workers from Asia are exploited by ruthless companies.

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The Public Uprising: Bernhard Poerksen's Critique of DER SPIEGEL's Debate Culture

For the past year and more, media studies professor Bernhard Poerksen has been observing and critiquing DER SPIEGEL. In this final essay, he takes a look back at his work, responds to the hundreds of reader comments he has received and lays out the...

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Never Out of Date: How Hannah Arendt Helps Us Understand Our World

Fifty years after her death in New York, Hannah Arendt has become the most popular philosopher of our time. For good reason: Her views are just as timely as ever.

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