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  From the archive: The rise and fall of French cuisine

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  ‘I remember the silence between the falling shells’: the terror of living …

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  A violent murder, a child on death row

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  From the archive: ‘We the people’: the battle to define populism

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  The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the c…

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  Chainsaws, disguises and toxic tea: the battle for Sheffield’s trees

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  From the archive: How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France

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  ‘I stopped counting how many friends died’: life after the contaminated bl…

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  Inside the Taliban’s luxury hotel

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  Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read

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  The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail?

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  ‘Incoherence and inconsistency’: the inside story of the Rwanda deportatio…

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  From the archive: The last of the Zoroastrians

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  The insider: how Michael Lewis got a backstage pass for the fall of Sam Ba…

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  ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could chan…

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  From the archive: What I have learned from my suicidal patients