Cristina Florea Ukraine’s Long Self-Determination Ukrainians have declared their independence five times—each time, defining their nation anew. December 7, 2022
Olesya Khromeychuk The Nation Ukraine Has Become The reason resistance to the Russian invasion is so strong is that the country’s people already chose a new, decisively democratic identity. March 25, 2022
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
Jon Allsop Marine Le Pen’s ‘Perfect Soldier’ To focus on her 2022 presidential campaign, the National Rally candidate is handing over party leadership to her youthful protégé. Is this the ticket that will bring the far right to power in France? September 4, 2021
Fintan O’Toole Theater, Politics, and Critic “The way the personal and the political overlap in certain public lives can be illuminating for both arenas.” May 22, 2021
Matt Seaton The Great Disenchantment Thanks to this latest, very public family rift, more cracks are appearing in the façade of the United Kingdom’s royalist consensus. March 9, 2021
Kate Maltby Making Hungary Greater Again What Viktor Orbán may not say himself while conducting international diplomacy, he tolerates in his outriders. Nationalist calls for a return to “Greater Hungary” are here to stay. June 3, 2020
Joseph Allchin Assam & the Hindu Nationalist Citizenship Law Home Minister Amit Shah has promised to take the citizenship register process piloted in Assam nationwide—in order to rid the nation of its largely imaginary “infiltrators” before the next general election, scheduled for 2024. January 6, 2020
Adam Shatz Driss Chraïbi & the Novel Morocco Had to Ban When Driss Chraïbi’s The Simple Past (Le Passé simple) was published in 1954, it was as if an explosion had gone off in the small, old-fashioned mansion of North African literature. January 2, 2020
Matt Seaton The Strange Death of Social-Democratic England Social-democratic Britain is already a tattered, damaged thing. The question is what will be left to save by the time the Labour Party can win a general election again. December 12, 2019