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Amsterdam’s rebel mayor on sex, drugs and tourists
Femke Halsema, the Dutch capital’s first female mayor, doesn’t shy away from radical yet rational policymaking. Here she tells us how she aims to take drug distribution out of criminal hands and cut overtourism.
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Editor’s letter: 2025 is the year of makers, fixers and the ambitious, says Andrew Tuck
Andrew Tuck on the year ahead.
Calling the tune: How live music is helping to revive Thailand’s empty high-rises
In Khon Kaen, performance venues have found a new home in the clouds.
Clean-up act: The stylish solution to Bali’s waste troubles
How do you tidy up a prolifically polluted paradise? Hospitality group Potato Head has found the answer.
Laser focus: How anti-drone systems are redefining warfare
With drone warfare proliferating across the globe, one company in Australia has excelled at creating anti-drone systems – saving lives every day while learning from soldiers on Ukraine’s front line.
The green petrostate: Can Norway become carbon neutral?
Norway is investing hard in green technologies – while getting rich from pumping oil. Can the nation come good on its environmental promises? We meet the people trying to answer that question.
At the Honolulu Defense Forum, the sector prepares for a China crisis
The Honolulu Defense Forum is an opportunity for chief policymakers and analysts to come together to address intensifying maritime security challenges, including China’s military posturing across the Indo-Pacific.
Moving to Mumbai? Colaba is the place where art and architecture uniteÂ
In the first of a new series on urban enclaves – places that have their own powerful dynamism – we head to a former colonial redoubt in Mumbai (or still Bombay to locals).
Interview: A peace mediation adviser on how to resolve conflict
For every fierce clash, there will be those behind the scenes striving to resolve it through diplomatic means. One such mediator, from Berlin’s Berghof Foundation, tells us the key steps to resolution.
