World
Take It From JFK—Appeasement Over Confrontation
Displays of presidential toughness aren’t what our nation needs right now.
Andrew J. BacevichMedia Malpractice and Information War in Ukraine
The Western media’s double standard is on full display amid Ukraine war coverage.
Ishmael N. DaroBanning the Hijab Targets Muslim Women
A state order against the religious garment in Karnataka, India, is seen by members of the Muslim minority as a form of intimidation and control.
Hasan AliLatest World Coverage
We Must End the War on Ukraine—and Put an End to Perpetual Wars
A revived Cold War triggered by Putin’s invasion would distract from bigger threats.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Memory Wars in Russia and Ukraine
The current fighting is about territory, but also about history.
Vadim Nikitin
The Coming Republican Civil War Over Russia
The crucial debate goes on hold during the invasion of Ukraine, while Republican realists remain MIA.
Jeet HeerContinuing World Coverage
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March 1, 2022
Afghan Refugees in Ukraine Are Reliving a Nightmare
Hundreds of people who escaped the Taliban now found themselves fleeing another war.
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February 28, 2022
The Book Arsenal: A Dispatch From the Cultural Front in Kyiv
Ukrainian publisher Anetta Antonenko has her books, her cats, her language—and her gun.
Benjamin Moser -
February 28, 2022
Chronicles of Russian Resistance
Reports on the opposition to war inside Putin’s Russia.
Finley Muratova -
February 28, 2022
The Spectacular Fall of Honduras’s Juan Orlando Hernandez
The former president will face drug charges in a US court, but it was the US that empowered him.
Jared Olson
US Foreign Policy
Will the Fight for Hegemony Survive Climate Change?
Even if China were to become the preeminent world power around 2030, the accelerating pace of climate change would likely curtail its rise within decades.
Alfred McCoy
With Violence, America Reaps What It Sows
The hum of the continuing violence embedded in this country’s war-making structure is so constant that most of us don’t even notice or question it.
Kelly Denton-BorhaugAfrica
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January 18, 2022
Akwasi Frimpong’s Struggle to Represent Africa at the Winter Olympics
The IOC bureaucracy should let the skeleton competitor claim his rightful place at the Beijing Games.
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December 31, 2021
Remembering the Real Desmond Tutu, 1931–2021
Celebrated in death by his former foes, Archbishop Tutu had the gift not just of courage and righteousness but also of timing.
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December 30, 2021
Desmond Tutu Spoke Truth in the Face of Oppression
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Phyllis Bennis discuss the life and legacy of the South African archbishop.
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December 29, 2021
Remembering Desmond Tutu’s Gospel of Peace
Archbishop Tutu campaigned for a world where all leaders were held to account for their actions and where advocacy for peace and justice was paramount.
John Nichols
Asia
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February 25, 2022
India’s Press Crackdown: The Silencing of Journalists in Kashmir
Police charged Fahad Shah, editor in chief of The Kashmir Walla and a Nation contributor, with sedition. Under India’s anti-terrorism laws, he could face life in prison or the death sentence.
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February 16, 2022
US-Born Children in China Will Have to Choose Between Rival Superpowers
Tens of thousands of kids in China were born in the US to maternity tourists. But at 18, they have to decide which citizenship to keep.
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February 4, 2022
Protests in Kazakhstan Rattle Russia and China
China’s response to massive protests in its energy-rich neighbor show that claims of noninterference in the domestic affairs of other countries are not to be taken at face value.
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January 25, 2022
What We Miss When We Say a War Has “Ended”
Bringing to light the kinship among American wars—and, by extension, their true significance—requires situating them in a single historical framework.
Andrew J. Bacevich
Europe
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February 25, 2022
I Am Russian. I Stand With Ukraine.
A letter of solidarity with Ukraine from a 22-year-old Russian citizen.
Finley Muratova -
February 24, 2022
Putin’s Invasion
De-escalation and negotiation are the only way out of this crisis.
Katrina vanden Heuvel -
February 16, 2022
Is the Confrontation Over Ukraine Joe Biden’s “Wag the Dog” Moment?
The people now gunning for a showdown with Putin were gunning for a showdown with Saddam Hussein two decades ago—with the same promises of a happy outcome.
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February 15, 2022
Independent American and Russian Women Call for Peace
Every voice has meaning.
Nadezhda Azhgikhina
Latin America
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February 23, 2022
Claudio Lomnitz and the Vertigo of Translation
In his generations-spanning new book, the anthropologist tracks the story of Jewish life in Latin America through the travails of one family.
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February 16, 2022
A Union Vote in Mexico Promises a New Direction in Trade Policy
Workers at the General Motors assembly plant in the city of Silao have voted for a new independent union, presaging a new era of labor collaboration across borders.
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February 8, 2022
The Black Migrant Trail of Tragedies
Immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean who make the dangerous trek across the Americas to the US face racist policies and practices everywhere they go.
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January 27, 2022
Stumbling on Chilean Stones—and Chilean History
Chile has a new leader and a bright future. But a country in which 44 percent of the electorate voted for an admirer of Pinochet is in need of as many obstacles to forgetting as possible.
Ariel Dorfman
Middle East
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February 22, 2022
A “Simultaneously Hidden and Deliciously Obvious” History of Levantine Cuisine
Writer Antonio Tahhan and Anny Gaul, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, discuss a new collection of essays on the region’s food.
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February 15, 2022
As I Write, Settlers and Police Are Attacking My Neighbors in Sheikh Jarrah
It began, neighbors say, when an ultra-nationalist Israeli politician “moved” his office onto one of our lawns.
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February 11, 2022
Israeli Law & Torture: From Detained Minors to a Prison “Torture Room”
Inside the intensifying Israeli crackdown on Palestinian protest.
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February 7, 2022
Is This Israel’s South Africa Moment?
As Amnesty International issues a landmark report on Israeli apartheid, it’s time for Americans to demand accountability, not complicity, from their government.
Omar Barghouti and Stefanie Fox