International

The Syrian Mercenaries Abroad

The nearly decade-long civil war has created an entire generation of young men whose only marketable skill is fighting.

October 16, 2020

How China Beat Its Covid Crisis

China’s bureaucracy controlled the pandemic. But some Chinese see flaws in the authoritarian state.

November 5, 2020 issue

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

Health Care: The Best and the Rest

Ezekiel Emanuel’s new book makes a comparative study of eleven of the world’s health care systems. Who are the winners and losers?

October 22, 2020 issue

The Body and the Border

October 22, 2020 issue

The Iraq War Lie

It is a cruel irony that this Iraqi man was first used as a prop for an American invasion and then subjected to disfiguring violence by soldiers who had carried out that invasion. But his story weighs on me in other ways.

September 15, 2020

When Monuments Fall

Perhaps the best way to express the changing attitudes toward the past is not necessarily to tear down statues, but to put up new ones that allow us to acknowledge the complexities of history. Frederick Douglass himself was of this view.

September 9, 2020

David Graeber, 1961–2020

David Graeber, the anthropologist and activist, died aged fifty-nine on September 2, 2020. The New York Review, to which he began contributing last year, is collecting tributes from his friends and colleagues.

September 5, 2020

The Battle Over the Cuban Five

September 24, 2020 issue

An Interview with Lech Wałęsa

Michał Matlak: What was crucial to the collapse of the system? Lech Wałęsa: If the Communists had not come to the realization that the system would collapse, the fight would have been much harder. They simply stopped believing in it.

August 31, 2020