US foreign policy in South America used to differ from its approach to Central America and the Caribbean. In the ...

A shifting array of hundreds of reproductions showing the art and architecture of two millennia, carefully selected ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the German authorities to remind them of their obligation to protect, rather than ...

In December 1823, President James Monroe used his annual message to Congress to outline what would later become known as the Monroe Doctrine. ‘The American continents’, he said, were no longer to be ...

More than three hundred British Library workers are on strike this week. They are demanding an inflation-proof pay rise, restoration for last year’s shortfall and an ‘end to non-payment of alternative ...

‘If George comes to Chicago,’ the mayor said, ‘I’ll crack him in the snoot!’ The ‘George’ was King George V. The mayor in 1927 was Big Bill Thompson, who ran the city in cahoots with Al Capone. He was ...

When the ceasefire was announced on 9 October there were videos of Palestinian journalists, who had been targeted for months, taking off their helmets. Children chattered about going back to school ...

Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “Brown Trews” Tokeley: Smuggler and Fabricator of Egyptian Antiquities’. ‘Jonty’ was a ...

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in long threads that resemble mycelial networks. To propagate when their survival is ...

On election night on Tuesday, as the talk of percentage points and reporting precincts updated on my screens in minute-by-minute increments, I was ready to go to bed early, as I’d done last November, ...

Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, says he wants to replace Labour. That still seems unlikely, but if it were to happen, this is what the early build-up might look ...