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Ukrainian Lessons at the Train Station

A diverse community of volunteers has gathered on the Polish border to assist Ukrainian refugees, but the outlook for Ukrainian refugees already in Europe is often bleak.

December 8, 2022 issue

Peter Canby

The Death Squad Dossier

Decades after Guatemala’s long civil war, a chronicle of government kidnapping and disappearance is bringing former officials to trial. Will there be justice for the victims?

December 8, 2022 issue

Yasmine El Rashidi

#FreeAlaa

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s imprisonment has never been about what he did but rather who he is, what he represents.

November 12, 2022

Maura Ewing

Clemency Under Fire

In Pennsylvania’s tight Senate race, John Fetterman’s commitment to commuting harsh sentences has come under fierce attack from the right.

November 7, 2022

Darryl Pinckney

Georgia’s Battle Over the Ballot

The New Georgia Project has been working for years on getting blacks to register and vote, but it must find ways to overcome the state’s long and complicated history of voter suppression.

November 24, 2022 issue

David Cole

Originalism’s Charade

Two new books make a devastating case against claims that the Constitution should be interpreted on the basis of its purported “original meaning.”

November 24, 2022 issue

Christopher de Bellaigue

Khamenei’s Dilemma

As protests in Iran continue, the regime’s attempts to crack down on them may create an unstoppable spiral of state violence and popular fury.

November 24, 2022 issue

Vincent Bevins

Bigger than Bolsonaro

After four years in power, a movement created by elite campaigns has built a mass base.

October 28, 2022

On Voting

Darryl Pinckney

Georgia’s Battle Over the Ballot

The New Georgia Project has been working for years on getting blacks to register and vote, but it must find ways to overcome the state’s long and complicated history of voter suppression.

November 24, 2022 issue

John Paul Stevens

The Right to Vote: A Dissent

How the Supreme Court got it wrong

August 15, 2013 issue

David Cole

How Voting Rights Are Being Rigged

We are committed in theory to the principle of “one person, one vote,” but in practice our nation has exploited and tolerated deep, structural racial oppression, from slavery to Jim Crow to today’s racial profiling, residential and educational segregation, and red-lining.

October 27, 2016 issue

Garry Wills

‘New Votuhs’

Americans have a history of discouraging parts of the populace from voting. Jesse Jackson registered them.

August 18, 1988 issue

The Latest

Joseph O’Neill

New York’s Rusty Political Machine

New York’s unique red wave revealed the structural weakness of the state’s Democratic party—and above all its current committee chair.

November 24, 2022

Joshua Leifer

In the House that Bibi Built

With Netanyahu back in power and right-wing religious nationalism at high tide, what remains of Israel’s left will either reinvent itself or vanish.

November 23, 2022

Tim Judah

In Kherson

The retreat of Russian troops from Kherson, leaving the city without power, water, or cell service, closed a long chapter in the war in Ukraine.

November 19, 2022

Alizeh Kohari

Pakistan Submerged

Climate change and a “monsoon on steroids” bring catastrophic flooding to Pakistan.

November 24, 2022 issue

Reginald Dwayne Betts

Holding a Gun

An exchange of letters between Reginald Dwayne Betts and Serhiy Zhadan, lyrical writers of the tough places they come from.

November 24, 2022 issue

Adam Hochschild

The Cruelties of Empire

Whether they were labeled internal revolts, police actions, or states of emergency, colonial wars were especially brutal.

November 24, 2022 issue

Carmen Winant

Pictures at Work

Betty Medsger’s photographs of American women at their jobs, a feminist statement in the 1970s, have had a long afterlife.

November 2, 2022

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Limits of Press Power

To what extent did newspapers influence public opinion in the US and Britain before and during World War II?

November 3, 2022 issue

Andrea Sempértegui

Ecuador’s Historic Strike

With this summer’s strike, the country’s powerful Indigenous movement united two agendas long in tension: resistance to austerity and opposition to natural resource extraction.

October 5, 2022

Jonathan Mingle

The Groaning Grid

The US can’t reach its net-zero targets unless electrical utilities transition to renewable energy, but the biggest power providers are dragging their feet.

September 30, 2022