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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

Helen Epstein

The Truth About Museveni’s Crimes

Despite Western claims that he brought peace to Uganda after years of violence under his predecessors, his regime has been bloody from the start.

March 11, 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

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

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

Alma Guillermoprieto

Bolivia’s Tarnished Savior

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

December 3, 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

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Howard W. French

A Dispatch from Our Correspondent

“The US must learn to discover the sense of purpose that comes from achieving things of virtue, things that have an objective social need.”

April 10, 2021

Howard W. French

Can America Remain Preeminent?

The global influence of the US is threatened by the potentially chaotic unraveling of a political, security, and economic architecture that has structured the world for the past seventy or so years.

April 29, 2021 issue

Thomas Rogers

Welcome to Germany

Since Angela Merkel admitted 1.2 million refugees in 2015 and 2016, the dire predictions about their impact on the country have not materialized.

April 29, 2021 issue

Nathan Thrall

The Endless Occupation, a New Understanding

“Today’s reality in Israel-Palestine is at odds with everything the United States claims to stand for.”

March 20, 2021

Sue Halpern

Weaponizing the Web

Nicole Perlroth’s investigation into the shadowy world of cyberweaponry predicts an unsettling future for global security.

April 8, 2021 issue

James Oakes

Why Did the Slave Trade Survive So Long?

The history of the Atlantic slave trade after the American Revolution is a story of sustained efforts to suppress it even as demand for African slaves increased.

April 8, 2021 issue

Delphine Schrank

Honduras Amid the Maelstrom

The Central American nation has become a terrifying case study in what results when climate change, government failure, gang violence, and natural disaster collide.

March 17, 2021

Steven Simon

Turning Away from the Middle East

The Biden administration will seek to rejoin the nuclear deal with Iran, but its main focus will be on domestic affairs and relations with China.

April 8, 2021 issue

Roya Hakakian

Looking Back at the Land of No

“The memory of the surveillance state was so powerful that, long after arriving in America, I always peered to see who was walking behind me.”

March 13, 2021

Jon Allsop

Labour’s Leader in the Wilderness

Taking charge after the electoral debacle under Jeremy Corbyn was always going to be a challenge. But Keir Starmer is struggling to chart a new course for his party.

March 10, 2021