Vincent Bevins

On​ 1 November 2024, the canopy of a recently renovated train station in Novi Sad collapsed, killing sixteen people. In the weeks that followed, a new protest movement coalesced; it continues to demonstrate sixteen months later. For its leaders, the collapse is symptomatic of the corruption at the heart of Aleksandar Vučić’s increasingly authoritarian government. Questions around...

Indonesia​ rarely makes the headlines. It is the least understood of the world’s most populous countries and the largest majority Muslim country, its population of 280 million exceeded only by those of the US, India and China; it is the world’s fourteenth largest country by area and its economy is the fifth largest in Asia. It has been known to Europeans since 1512 and gained...