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British missionaries hated the sari; US feminists would ban the burqa. Why, asks Rafia Zakaria, do empires care so much about women’s clothes?
What Mortimer did: how a colonial blunder grew into part of the War on Terror
21 min
The sneaky Scandinavian approach to empire
8 min
To understand Afghanistan’s future, reckon with the region’s colonial past
13 min
Afghanistan and the tragic verdict on post-9/11 America
6 min
How Prince Naseem Hamed shaped British identity
31 min
The controlled populism of Joe Biden