Writing on the eve of Banned Books Week 2026, it’s important to highlight that book banning is not the work of the purity ...

Egyptian authorities detained six journalists from the Matsada2sh newsroom amid huge concerns around the treatment of independent media ...

During the Nepal floods, two phenomena unfolded in parallel – the disaster and a raft of fake images. Verification has become ...

In preparation for Banned Books Week UK which returns from 4-10 October 2026, the coalition announces a one-day relay on Wednesday 7 October for libraries across the UK to celebrate the freedom to ...

Slavenka Drakulić, Croatian writer, journalist and Index contributor, whose work covered topics from war in the former Yugoslavia to a novel on Frida Kahlo, has died aged 76. Born in Rijeka in 1949, ...

Vital elections take place in Serbia next month - how should the European Union approach Aleksandar Vučić's Serbia?

The repercussions of Donald Trump’s tariffs continue to spiral with the escalating US-China trade war and the World Trade Organization warning of an impending sharp decline in global trade. But ...

Are you our new senior editor? Index is on the hunt for a new senior editor to work at the heart of our editorial team across our magazine and website. This is an exciting opportunity at a time when ...

It should now be clear to everyone that the year 2026 will be marked by the march of the far right further into the mainstream of European politics. Each of the major European powers now has an ...

Tom Stoppard’s path to literary success is a story that would be worthy of the stage. Born in Czechoslovakia (as it was then known) as Tomás Straüssler in 1937, he endured a turbulent childhood before ...

“In the past couple years, I’ve gotten kicked off of PayPal and Venmo,” sex worker Maya Morena told me. “I’ve gotten kicked off Twitter. I had 80,000 followers on Twitter; I had 30,000 followers on ...

In a secondary academy in England, a librarian is putting books into a box. Just moments before, they were proudly on the shelves, rainbow flags waving across their covers and words such as “queer” ...