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Shining a light
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood’s prescient science fiction has made her an icon of modern dissent.
The Agenda
In the Georgian capital, Russian émigrés are trying to make sense of the country they’ve left behind.
Can the Republicans take the centre ground?
Who should lead the Republicans into the next presidential election? Can they try to regain their old voice of moderation? Monocle's panel debates the future of the Grand Old Party.
Will Russia ever play nicely?
Vast resources, rich culture, brilliant people — Russia possesses everything needed to be a respected global citizen. Aggression over cooperation?
Politics
Kazakhstan’s retiring president, Denmark’s Green party leader and Nordic nations feeling postal pressure.
Still supreme
Poland's defiant Supreme Court president Malgorzata Gersdorf — forcibly retired by the ruling PiS party yet still reporting for work — speaks to Monocle about judicial independence and creeping authoritarianism.
All for one
In one of the world’s most violent cities, the opposition is united. Can they take power?
