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Alma Guillermoprieto

Confrontation in Colombia

Protesters have demanded not just the rejection of a tax bill but a whole new society.

July 22, 2021 issue

David Shulman

Cracks in the Israeli Consensus

The latest round of violence in Gaza has led to the reemergence of the Palestinian national movement—as well as more skepticism among Israelis about repeatedly making war on Hamas.

July 1, 2021 issue

Fintan O’Toole

The King of Little England

Boris Johnson, unlike Trump, does not want never-ending disarray. The difficulty is that, having delivered him a string of political successes, Brexit will not go away.

June 10, 2021 issue

Atul Dev

Modi’s Folly

His citizens are dying in thousands for lack of basic medical care, yet India’s leader is pressing ahead with a self-aggrandizing makeover of New Delhi.

May 10, 2021

Nathan Thrall

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.

March 19, 2021

Ursula Lindsey

Me Too in Egypt & Morocco

In both countries, burgeoning movements to hold men accountable for sexual violence have led to new waves of repression.

April 8, 2021 issue

Aida Alami

The Arab Spring at Ten

A decade ago, countries across North Africa and the Middle East erupted in protests against their autocratic rulers. Five witnesses to those events tell what happened next.

February 25, 2021

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

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Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Syrians Die in Western Media Darkness

When the world stopped paying attention to Syria’s civil war and its refugees, it wasn’t just the regime that welcomed impunity. A European government took the invitation, too.

July 20, 2021

Fred Kaplan

Why Did We Invade Iraq?

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

July 22, 2021 issue

Fara Dabhoiwala

Imperial Delusions

From the late eighteenth century onward, the British justified their empire with a continually updated ideology of moral purpose and historical necessity.

July 1, 2021 issue

Lindsey Hilsum

More Than Accomplices

How do we determine the agency of female participants in genocidal regimes, where male supremacy often goes hand in hand with ethnic chauvinism?

July 1, 2021 issue

Ian Johnson

A Most Adaptable Party

The belief that history brought it to power is one of the few ideological constants in the Chinese Communist Party’s hundred-year saga.

July 1, 2021 issue

Christopher R. Browning

Blue Bloods and Brownshirts

The relationship between German nobles and the Nazis was a misalliance in which attraction prevailed over repulsion.

July 1, 2021 issue

Delphine Schrank

Myanmar’s Other Government

Popular resistance to the military junta that seized control in February’s coup has gone far beyond protest and strikes. A remarkable democratic endeavor in dual power is afoot.

June 7, 2021

Jon Allsop

Cummings’s Last Stand

The political adviser who helped Boris Johnson ride the Brexit wave into power has turned on him over the government’s pandemic record. But whose nemesis will it prove?

May 25, 2021

Helen Epstein and Claude Gatebuke

The Roots of Rwanda’s Genocide

Why have so many Western historians, journalists, and human rights investigators failed to grasp why Hutu Rwandans suddenly started killing their Tutsi neighbors in April 1994?

June 10, 2021 issue

Jessica T. Mathews

Losing No Time

In his first hundred days President Biden has been bold, decisive, and willing to take risks in his foreign policy judgments, but his early mistakes on Iran and Taiwan may have dangerous consequences.

May 27, 2021 issue