”Walk straight ahead, don’t turn back” Shanghai. Skyscrapers shining a thousand lights as soon as the sun sets. On the Bund 1See images: Famous waterfront alongside the Huangpu River, harbouring the colonial buildings...
We are in 1663. The Stuart dynasty has just taken back its place on the throne of England, with the help of a handful of noble families. Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, repays this kind gesture by...
Less than two weeks before the US presidential election, all the polls seemed to predict the same outcome: Democrat candidate Joe Biden beating his opponent. Yet in 2016, Hillary Clinton was envisioned as the future...
Those who lived it will surely remember the stifling and chaotic electoral evening of November 2000, during which a few hundreds of votes in Florida were supposed to decide the outcome of the election opposing Al Gore...
It’s raining on Cincinnati. Gray clouds have been hovering and rust has gained some ground for a month now. As if the weather wanted somewhat to embody the uneasiness of this city’s inhabitants: for sixty years...
No human being has ever seen that much technical progress in the span of 60 years. We, the people of the western world, are fortunate enough to live in incommensurable comfort. Be it at work or at home, technological...
The scene could not be more striking. Right in the middle of March, Krabi airport, Thailand’s tourist jewel, is half deserted. Every tourist roaming the halls waiting for their flight is wearing a mask. A shopkeeper...