DIPLOMA: What NATO is failing to do today? With a mildly satirical exterior and a deadly serious core, Arthur Franck's account of the groundbreaking Helsinki Accords of 1975 demonstrates the great historical significance of a diplomatic process that was considered both boring and irrelevant at the time.
CORRUPTION: Alexis Bloom's gripping exposé of the web of lies that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apparently woven to avoid corruption charges shows how one man's fear of prison has led to war and instability in the Middle East. It's about a man whose ego has grown to the point where he sees himself as a kind of King David figure leading the Jewish people to salvation.
GAZA: The conflict in Gaza is horrific for all innocent people. But what enables an Israeli family to muster the political will and pressure to have their daughter released within two months, while thousands of Palestinians who were arrested and imprisoned without charge or trial during the war remain voiceless?
HEALTH: The age of Homo plasticus is here. Plastic is going to kill us, unless we do something about it. Microplastics are full of dangerous chemicals – and compounds that can change our DNA and cause cancer, inflammation, tumors and dementia. Death. Few plastic materials are actually recyclable; less than ten percent is recycled today.
RUSSIA: One day Putin will leave the Kremlin – but that will not change anything, writes Tony Wood in his book on power and continuity in today's Russia, in which he attacks several well-known myths.
AFGHANISTAN: In the capital, Kabul, which only gets international attention when suicide bombers attack, director Aboozar Amini is a fly on the wall in the lives of ordinary people.