One year ago, Hamas killed some 1 200 people – overwhelmingly civilians – in Israel and took more than 250 hostage. Since then, Israel has reduced much of Gaza to rubble; more than 40 000 of its inhabitants reportedly have…

The Gang of Four was the name given to four senior Chinese officials closely associated with some of the Cultural Revolution’s most radical features.  They lost out in the power struggle that followed Mao Zedong’s death, after which they were…