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A Free Aceh Movement flag, right, flies alongside the Indonesian national flag during a rally outside the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh on Aug. 15, 2026. Reza Saifullah/AFP via Getty Images

21 years after disaster helped bring peace to Aceh – has botched Indonesian response to floods reignited calls for independence?

A decades-long insurgency in the Indonesian province ended after 2004’s devastating tsunami. But pro-independence talk is on the rise again.
A gallery worker works with an artwork titled ‘World Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution’ alongside other posters by the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Tolga Akmen /AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s Cuba report borrowed heavily from my book on an anti‑imperialist movement – but twisted the arguments

The State Department views a 1960s-era internationalist movement based in Havana as a Cuban communist plot to destroy America. The truth was far more nuanced.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, attends a meeting in Kyiv with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in July. Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA

European ‘war fatigue’ may be growing – but Ukraine’s recent momentum could buy time

Ukraine’s uptick in fortunes bodes well for the ability of European leaders to keep their citizens on board with the war effort.
Ukrainian military personnel operate a drone from an undisclosed location in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. lev radin / Shutterstock

How warfare has been ‘gamified’ in Ukraine

Ukraine’s government says its system of rewarding points to troops for successful strikes is ‘delivering results’.
Chacma baboons don’t hang around in risky areas. Danita Delimont/Shutterstock

How animals prepare for war

Humans aren’t the only ones to preempt conflict.
Cholera is common in parts of the world where clean water sources are unreliable. Sudan has suffered multiple outbreaks since the onset of a civil war in 2023. AFP via Getty Images

Cholera still kills thousands each year – in places without clean water, it’s far from history

While cholera launched modern epidemiology and has nearly disappeared in many countries, the disease never went away. It has instead retreated to the places least equipped to fight it.

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