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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

A Justice for Black Lives protest, London, June 2020

Gary Younge

What Black America Means to Europe

July 23, 2020 issue

Ed Vulliamy

Will Covid Change Italy?

September 24, 2020 issue

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

Amir Ahmadi Arian

Soleimani and the Propaganda Art of Iran

This commemoration of Soleimani as the ultimate martyr is the latest manifestation of the Islamic Republic’s long history of communicating political messages in graphic media—a particular cultural tradition of propaganda.

September 30, 2020

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with supporters on the day he agreed to start a prison sentence for corruption, São Paulo, April 2018; from Petra Costa’s The Edge of Democracy

Larry Rohter

Brazil’s Dead End

April 23, 2020 issue

The Latest

Helen Epstein

In Uganda, Another Museveni Crackdown

As an election approaches, opposition to the strongman’s long, brutal rule is gathering—but it has to reckon with his security state and its international enablers.

November 25, 2020

Gal Koplewitz

Death on the Via Dolorosa

The police shooting of an unarmed autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem this summer provoked brief outrage, but little sign of a lasting movement for change in Israel.

November 23, 2020

Jehad al-Saftawi

Framing Life in a Conflict Zone

“I miss the warmth and kindness of the people in Gaza,” says the young Palestinian photojournalist, now living in exile.

November 7, 2020

Jehad al-Saftawi

The Gaza I Grew Up In

Working as a photojournalist there is like walking barefoot in a field of thorns. You must always watch where you step.

November 6, 2020

Lucy McKeon

News From Elsewhere

Events from around the world you may have missed if you were busy watching ballot counts in the US.

November 6, 2020

Jonathan Freedland

Labour’s Anti-Semitism Saga, the Denouement

Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension after defying a report’s damning conclusions about his leadership was the last twist in a shameful chapter of the party’s history.

November 3, 2020

Oris Aigbokhaevbolo

Nigeria’s #EndSARS Movement

The government’s denials about the Lekki Massacre reflect a leadership unaccustomed to being held accountable. But that is changing.

November 1, 2020

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