Society

How the Dutch deal with mentally-ill criminals: the TBS system

Every time serious crimes are committed in the Netherlands, we always hear about judges passing a sentence...

That time a Dutch football team signed a contract with an 18-month-old

It's not often we bring you a story from 2011 in 2020, but this time we just had...

What’s up with the Dutch 21-dinner tradition?

While Dutch culture itself is already quite difficult to understand sometimes, Dutch student culture can be even...

What does nightlife in the Netherlands look like in corona times?

Today, July 1, brings another round of coronavirus rules being relaxed to the Netherlands. But as most of society...

Do you feel at home in the Netherlands?

Do you feel at home in the Netherlands? Are you settled and cannot ever imagine leaving? Is...

Adopting a child in the Netherlands

Since 1956, when adoption became a legal family form, 60,000 children have been adopted in the Netherlands....

Mark Rutte, sociological jargon isn’t real, but institutional racism is

Mark Rutte says institutional racism is sociological jargon.  First, let’s take a brief moment to celebrate the progress...

Missed tulip season this year? Why not grow your own!

If the only thing that got you through the winter was the thought of a casual stroll...