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From the Magazine: London’s Long Burn

The youth riots and disturbances in the U.K. may have calmed, but important questions still smolder in the wreckage left behind. Britain’s leaders pin the violence and looting on “sheer criminality”; the word “feral” was conspicuous in some coverage of the disturbances. But criminal opportunism is not a sufficient explanation. TIME …

Dispatch from Tottenham: Where the U.K. Riots First Started

As the crow flies Tottenham is eight miles from the center of London. As the traffic creeps, that translates to 45 minutes by car. The route takes one through the boroughs of Islington and Hackney—the latter still largely poor, but streaked by pockets of growing gentrification. To the right for much of the route one can see a mass …

Hear the Song at the Heart of South Africa’s Hate Speech Trial

For the past week, South Africa has been gripped by a courtroom drama that, 17 years after the end of apartheid, exposes how wide the country’s racial divide can still be. Julius Malema, the enfant terrible of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), is on trial for hate speech because of his insistence on singing a protest song which …