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Good morning, gentle readers! This week we're exploring reads on subjects from Rikers Island to child marriage, so settle in — and when you're done, why not pop into comments to tell us what...
It seems to be a recurring theme when politics and rape allegations mix: women’s bodies become the battlefield where access to justice is secondary, a mere afterthought or a nuisance. Julian...
Famous for its music, design and enviable social democracy, Sweden is an idyllic-yet-modern country to spend some time in. I caught up with Ulf Ekberg, best known for being co-founder of Ace Of Base....
Recently, there was an international storm around Storm, a Canadian child whose parents have declined to divulge their sex. This followed a similar story from Sweden in a 2009 with a child named...
Last week, journalist Lara Logan was sexually assaulted by a group of protesters in Egypt. Details of the assault emerged over time: She was forcibly isolated from her crew. She was beaten; some of...
Hedeby Island, Sweden. Henrik Vanger, the venerable head of the powerful Vanger dynasty, opens a parcel from Hong Kong. The contents, a neatly pressed flower, floor the old man as surely as if a...