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Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Bloody Panico

The British Conservative Party was once one of the great popular political movements of Europe. What happened?

March 23, 2023 issue

Charles Glass

Disenchantment and Devastation in Syria

The civil war may be over in Damascus, but the mood in the city is one of resignation.

March 23, 2023 issue

Sarah Schulman

Red Lights, Blue Lines

Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.”

March 23, 2023 issue

Liza Batkin

Men Explain Abortion Drugs to the FDA

In a Texas lawsuit, Christian medical organizations are asking a hand-picked judge to make the FDA rescind its approval of mifepristone. They might succeed.

March 7, 2023

Tareq Baconi

Enforcing Apartheid in the West Bank

After settlers attacked a Palestinian village last week, Israeli politicians called it an outbreak of lawlessness. But the army covered the settlers’ every move.

March 3, 2023

Willa Glickman

‘A Wakeup Call from Hell’

By striking for safe staffing levels, New York City nurses joined a wave of labor unrest that has swept the health care industry in response to Covid-19.

March 1, 2023

Susan Barba

The Road to Artsakh

Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh is an atrocity in slow motion.

February 22, 2023

Kaya Genç

Cries from the Rubble

After last week’s earthquakes, many thousands were trapped under ruins in Erdoğan’s “New Turkey.”

February 15, 2023

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

Jon Allsop

The War of the Rose

France’s once-powerful Socialist Party has been in steep decline. In a moment of political crisis, can its leader revive it?

March 23, 2023

Moises Saman

Collide, Collude, Confront

I was in Iraq to report “objectively” on the war. Collecting my photographs from two decades there, I wanted to expose the constraints of my perspective.

March 19, 2023

Christopher de Bellaigue

Erdogan in the Ruins

The failure of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to prepare for and respond to Turkey’s devastating earthquake is the crowning abomination of his long misrule.

April 6, 2023 issue

Amy Knight

Putin’s Folly

A year after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is mired in a seemingly endless military conflict. Is Putin the master tactician underestimating his adversary?

April 6, 2023 issue

Orville Schell

Appeasement at the Cineplex

Unable to resist China’s huge market, Hollywood has proven willing to alter its films to avoid offending Beijing.

April 6, 2023 issue

Carey Baraka

The Political Education of William Ruto

Kenya’s new leadership got their start in the 1980s in the youth ranks of Daniel arap Moi’s authoritarian regime. Will they repeat the sins of their mentors?

March 8, 2023

Sue Halpern

Private Eyes

The surveillance economy has all but eliminated Americans’ ability to be “let alone.”

March 9, 2023 issue

Gordon F. Sander

Finland’s Turn to the West

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has abruptly ended the Finns’ reservations about joining NATO.

March 9, 2023 issue

John J. Lennon

Peddling Darkness

True crime stories, like Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel, make for suspenseful reading. But do they exploit the criminal, and deepen a thirst for punishment?

March 9, 2023 issue

Liza Batkin

The Empty Words of the Religious Right

The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom has perfected a tactic for twisting the First Amendment: casting discriminators as visionaries persecuted by despotic laws.

February 10, 2023