Yi-Ling Liu Planet TikTok The app’s young user base, fragmented content, and amped-up algorithm helped it spread around the world. If the US bans it, what would be lost? July 9, 2024
Spencer Lee-Lenfield Mysterious Displays of Will Nadine Hwang—a queer Chinese lawyer who joined the army, circulated in Paris salons, and survived Ravensbrück—never wrote a memoir, but her life itself became a work of art. January 4, 2023
Jacob Heilbrunn The Hawks Ascending Russia’s war on Ukraine has opened up a new front in Washington’s foreign policy elite, mobilizing veterans of the cold war and Iraq. Especially on the right, a fierce fight is in prospect. March 14, 2022
Peter Beinart Why a US-Russia Deal Would Benefit Taiwan The hawks in Washington forecast doom for the island from Chinese aggression if Biden does not threaten Putin with military action in Ukraine. They’ve got it backwards. February 11, 2022
Tariq Mir Kashmir’s Cycle of Death The more ruthlessly India uses military force to make its regional power plays, the more ineluctably young Kashmiris are drawn into armed resistance. November 22, 2021
Xu Zhangrun The Refusal of One Decent Man “What I have done is to continue in a tradition long hallowed among educated individuals in China by following the dictates of my conscience to speak out against tyranny.” August 21, 2021
Xu Zhangrun Xi’s China, the Handiwork of an Autocratic Roué Of course, the regime has rained down punishments on me for my criticisms; I expected that. It only exposes its inherent fragility and unfitness for the modern world. August 9, 2021
Lavender Au The Protest Families of Hong Kong Popular resistance to China’s increasingly repressive hold over the territory is creating remarkable new ties of kinship and solidarity. May 22, 2021
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
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