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In Tragedy’s Wake, Kenya Grapples With How To Combat Dangerous Cults

Starving in the Name of God

Venezuelan Refugees Face Growing Hostility in Chile

Chile’s Anti-Migrant Backlash

Lenin Still Has Pride of Place in a Tiny Italian Town

How Lenin Ended Up in a Small Italian Town

The enduring legacy of the Lenin bust is a story about present-day Italy and the country’s long history of activism — the kind that shaped a small town’s identity for over a century and continues to do so — but also about far-right sentiments carving out ever-larger spaces in national politics.

Food Tells the Story of Postwar Aden

Aden Through Food

Tiara Sahar Ataii

Ukrainians Eschew Russian But One of Their Bestselling Authors Embraces It

When Enemy Words Tell a Good Story

How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment

Where the US Poisoned Everything

India Opens a New Front in Its Corridor War With China

India-China Corridor Wars

Living Through War and Waiting for Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh

Life Under Siege

Siranush Sargsyan

A Syrian in Germany Finds Lessons in the Past and Present

Germany’s Long History of Welcome

Podcasts

Identity, Liberalism and the New Left — with Yascha Mounk

Identity, Liberalism and the New Left — with Yascha Mounk

Art, Music and Freedom in Iran — with Malu Halasa and Nahid Siamdoust

Art, Music and Freedom in Iran — with Malu Halasa and Nahid Siamdoust

Behind the Abaya Ban — with Rim-Sarah Alouane

Behind the Abaya Ban — with Rim-Sarah Alouane

Editors' Picks

Gone to Waste: The ‘CVE’ Industry After 9/11

Gone to Waste: The ‘CVE’ Industry After 9/11

How Azerbaijan Won the Karabakh War

How Azerbaijan Won the Karabakh War

Simon Ostrovsky

Greece’s Wildfires and the Future of Natural Disasters

Greece’s Wildfires and the Future of Natural Disasters

Contributors

Karim Zidan

Karim Zidan

"The mangoes, once a symbol of abundance and tradition, now find themselves struggling to adapt to this changing climate. Their fragility mirrors the fragility of my own imaginings of Egypt as insulated and enduring, an experience that I admit is colored by the stability and predictability of youth."

Megan Clement

Megan Clement

"If Faten had arrived in Denmark with a husband the same age as her, she would have been covered under his stronger status too. But as a single woman and a survivor of domestic violence, she has been required to prove over and again that it is precisely a man of military age who poses the greatest threat to her in Syria."

Suna Çağaptay

Suna Çağaptay

"Can a city like Antakya die? How can a city of that urban caliber be killed? The damage was significant, but Antioch didn’t die after the 526 earthquake or subsequent invasions and, despite the consequential loss and trauma, I don’t think it died with the 2023 earthquake either."

Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Yassin al-Haj Saleh

"Syria has been deluged, flooded and broken by imperial and subimperial states. The array of global and regional powers that came pouring into Syria after 2011 effectively turned the country into a container for liquid imperialism, transforming and disfiguring the place in profound and far-reaching ways, with no final state in sight."