International

‘Arum Arum Araaaaaagh’

Boris Johnson’s clownishness has become both mortifyingly infantile and, for those who have to live in the pandemic-stricken country he governs, quite scary.

January 13, 2022 issue

James McAuley

Who Does Éric Zemmour Speak For?

The far-right French presidential candidate offers a crude exaggeration of what many in France believe but few dare to admit.

January 13, 2022 issue

Alma Guillermoprieto

Nicaragua’s Dreadful Duumvirate

Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s corrupt and paranoid dictatorship has destroyed the Sandinista movement’s proudest achievements.

December 16, 2021 issue

Coco Fusco

Whose Art Thrives in Cuba?

Art and dance were battlegrounds for the struggle to define the meaning of the revolution.

December 16, 2021 issue

David Motadel

Nazis on the Run

Many perpetrators of the Holocaust escaped justice. Should Germany prosecute as accessories to murder the elderly few who remain alive?

December 2, 2021 issue

Raja Shehadeh

What Does Israel Fear from This ‘Terrorist’?

The Israeli government smears human rights organizations—like Al Haq, the one I founded—rather than attempting to end the violations they bring to light.

December 2, 2021 issue

Joshua Hammer

The Horrors of the Diamond Boom

The discovery of diamonds in German Southwest Africa in 1908 led to ruthless exploitation of the colony.

November 18, 2021 issue

Alice Kaplan

War and Memory in France and Algeria

Sixty years after the end of the Algerian War of Independence, “painful passions” on both sides continue to impede the reconciliation of the French and Algerian people.

November 18, 2021 issue

The Latest

David Shulman

Lost Illusions

Sylvain Cypel’s transformation from liberal Zionist to ferocious critic of Israel.

February 10, 2022 issue

Vincent Bevins

Brazil Turns, Lula Returns

Bolsonaro’s years of misrule have left a yearning for stability. Even conservative elites are adjusting to the idea of the Workers’ Party leader as president again.

January 5, 2022

Frederic Wehrey

The Many Repercussions of the Rif Rebellion

Fittingly for an anticolonial movement that created the template for those that followed, the Berber revolt of the 1920s reverberates across a century of history to this day.

December 18, 2021

Mark Honigsbaum

The Deep Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy

Understanding the battle over immunization—from the pre-Victorian era onward—between public health and the people may help in treating anti-vax sentiment.

December 14, 2021

Krithika Varagur

The Anti-Nazi Punjabi Princess

Catherine Duleep Singh was an Anglo-Indian aristocrat who lived much of her life quietly with another woman in Germany. Then she became a savior of Jewish refugees.

November 27, 2021

Tariq Mir

Kashmir’s Cycle of Death

The more ruthlessly India uses military force to make its regional power plays, the more ineluctably young Kashmiris are drawn into armed resistance.

November 22, 2021

Neal Ascherson

Declarations of Independence

“I saw how the British Empire could transform decent white people into puffed-up petty tyrants. Even if the Communist insurgents were not the ‘right side,’ I realized I was on the wrong side.”

November 20, 2021

Matt Seaton

The Etymology of Terror

For more than 150 years after it was coined, “terrorism” meant violence inflicted by the state on its people. How did the word come to mean the reverse?

November 17, 2021

Tareq Baconi

What Apartheid Means for Israel

A growing consensus has formed around the term—not as a rhetorical comparison to South Africa, but describing a system of domination built on the partition of Palestine.

November 5, 2021

Alma Guillermoprieto

Daniel Ortega and His Ex-Comrades

Not content with pillaging Nicaragua, the autocratic duumvirate of the Sandinista leader and his wife now cling to power by jailing former allies in the liberation struggle.

October 22, 2021