Tariq Mir Kashmir: Crackdowns and Plunder By revoking Kashmir’s semiautonomous status, India has launched a settler-colonial project. July 21, 2024
Scholastique Mukasonga Forever Elsewhere In keeping with the inalienable rights of the Storyteller, allow me to invent a different fall from grace. June 19, 2024
Adam Hanieh ‘Every Molecule of Hydrocarbon Will Come Out’ Gulf States are increasingly shaping global climate policy, even as they plan to accelerate fossil fuel production. February 21, 2024
Nicolas Niarchos ‘A Simulacrum of Elections’ President Félix Tshisekedi’s reelection in a contested vote further weakens democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. January 16, 2024
Fintan O’Toole The Many and the Few Israel’s own pre-statehood history illustrates the dangers of distinguishing between “civilized” and “barbarous” peoples. October 21, 2023
Rahmane Idrissa Sudan’s Repressed Democracy The fighting in Khartoum, now in its third month, is the latest disaster for a democracy movement that has long resisted Sudan’s ruling regimes. July 18, 2023
Anna Shechtman Eraser Marks In Claire Denis’s two latest films, white women come unmoored from the historical crises around them. October 18, 2022
Christopher Alessandrini Occasional Residences of the Gods The artist Gala Porras-Kim has become an eloquent advocate for sacred objects in ethnographic collections. Will museums listen? June 1, 2022
Frederic Wehrey The Many Repercussions of the Rif Rebellion Fittingly for an anticolonial movement that created the template for those that followed, the Berber revolt of the 1920s reverberates across a century of history to this day. December 18, 2021
Neal Ascherson Declarations of Independence “I saw how the British Empire could transform decent white people into puffed-up petty tyrants. Even if the Communist insurgents were not the ‘right side,’ I realized I was on the wrong side.” November 20, 2021