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Marc Weitzmann

A Rising Tide of Violence in France

The roots of radicalization in the country’s colonial past.

February 11, 2021 issue

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

The Right to Belong

Two books explore the history of statelessness and the problems with defining people by their citizenship.

December 17, 2020 issue

Amelia Lester

An Island at the Crossroads

Akemi Johnson’s new book explores the complexity of women’s lives in and around US military bases in Okinawa.

December 17, 2020 issue

Barbara Demick

China’s Clampdown on Hong Kong

Despite mass protests and China’s promises when it took back Hong Kong from Britain in 1997, Beijing’s new security law is crushing the former colony’s autonomy.

November 19, 2020 issue

Alma Guillermoprieto

Bolivia’s Tarnished Savior

Revisiting Evo Morales’s achievements and flaws as his party returns to power.

December 3, 2020 issue

Police blocking protesters after the arrests of the leaders of the Jordanian Teachers’ Syndicate, Amman, July 29, 2020

Ursula Lindsey

Jordan’s Endless Transition

The government’s efforts to preempt dissent and mass mobilization may keep Jordan quiet, but they are unlikely to solve its current crisis.

October 22, 2020 issue

Adolf Hitler and ‘Crown Prince’ Wilhelm during the Day of Potsdam celebrations, Potsdam, Germany, March 21, 1933

David Motadel

What Do the Hohenzollerns Deserve?

The controversy is about more than just the long shadows cast by the Nazi period

March 26, 2020 issue

Andrés Manuel López Obrador; drawing by John Cuneo

Enrique Krauze

Mexico’s Ruinous Messiah

July 2, 2020 issue

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Peter Beinart

The Lincoln Project’s Israel-Palestine Error

The Never Trump political consultants are deluded if they think that working for Benjamin Netanyahu’s main opponent in Israel’s upcoming election serves democracy and the rule of law.

January 27, 2021

Jonathan Stevenson

The National Security Counselor

“Entrenched constraints would have been damn useful in preventing Trump from heedlessly tearing down the US-led postwar liberal order.”

January 16, 2021

Perry Link

Seeing the CCP Clearly

For Chinese dissidents, the end of Washington’s deference to Beijing has been a long time coming.

February 11, 2021 issue

Lavender Au

China’s Big #MeToo Test

When the people’s republic claims to have achieved gender equality, how to deal with a high-profile accusation of sexual harassment is a tricky matter.

January 12, 2021

Anna Badkhen

Chronicler of a World on the Move

“Despite the immense amount of violence and loss I have witnessed, I remain interested in the miracle of survival, in what keeps us going.”

January 9, 2021

Anna Badkhen

‘Bright Unbearable Reality’: Migration As Seen from Above

Aerial photography has historically documented warscapes, mass migration, and now the effects of the global pandemic.

January 2, 2021

Matt Seaton

What’s Brexit to Do with the Price of Fish?

How did this minnow of an issue almost cause Britain to crash out of the European Union with no trade agreement? The answer: symbolic sovereignty.

December 24, 2020

Geoffrey O’Brien

Hitler in Antarctica

A historian of the Third Reich traces the processes by which history is not simply distorted but replaced by a fantastic parallel version.

January 14, 2021 issue

Viken Berberian

Armenia’s Tragedy in Shushi

Purged of its Armenian population during fighting over the disputed enclave of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, the historic center now faces cultural cleansing.

December 21, 2020