Home - New Lines Magazine

The French Soldiers Who Disobeyed Orders in Algeria

Algeria, France

Refusing Barbarity

Chahrazade Douah

Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Me

Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Me

The Gendered Battle Over Digital Sexual Abuse in South Korea

The Real Harm of Deepfakes

In South Korea, pornographic deepfakes are endemic. Feminists have been raising the alarm, resulting in stricter laws against digital sexual abuse. But entrenched misogyny and traditional patriarchal attitudes persist, and girls and women continue to feel unsafe online.

Hezbollah’s Bureaucrat-in-Chief

The Face of Defeat

A Hezbollah Assassin and the Meaning of Justice

Justice Served?

Kampala’s Cultural Boom Echoes Its 1960s Heyday

Kampala’s Cultural Renaissance

A Reality-Based Election Reckoning

Wishful Thinking

Michael Bérubé

The Former East Germany Is Fertile Ground for the Far Right

The Specter of a Homeland

Lebanon’s Heritage Is Disappearing Under Israel’s Bombardment

History Under Attack

Podcasts

The American Experiment From Outside and Within — with Hari Kunzru and Faisal Al Yafai

The American Experiment From Outside and Within — with Hari Kunzru and Faisal Al Yafai

America’s Global Election: The Impact of Trump’s Win at Home and Abroad — with Danny Postel, Amie Ferris-Rotman, Kareem Shaheen and Faisal Al Yafai

America’s Global Election: The Impact of Trump’s Win at Home and Abroad — with Danny Postel, Amie Ferris-Rotman, Kareem Shaheen and Faisal Al Yafai

Where America’s Election Will Be Won and Lost — with John Sides and Sheri Berman

Where America’s Election Will Be Won and Lost — with John Sides and Sheri Berman

Editors' Picks

Gaza’s Children Face an Unseen Crisis

Gaza’s Children Face an Unseen Crisis

First Among Satans

First Among Satans

Looking for the Roots of Today’s Germany

Looking for the Roots of Today’s Germany

Luka Ivan Jukić

Issue 8/ Fall 2024

Issue 7/ Summer 2024

Issue 6/ Spring 2024

Issue 5/ Winter 2024

Issue 4/ Fall 2023

Issue 3/ Summer 2023

Issue 2/ Spring 2023 Cover

Issue 2 / Spring 2023

Issue 1/Winter 2023 Cover

Issue 1 / Winter 2023

Read the latest issue here Become a member here

Contributors

Hoda Sherif

Hoda Sherif

"The mental health crisis for Palestinians living in Gaza was already acute before Oct. 7. Since 2006, Israel had imposed a military closure on Gaza, controlling everything from who and what entered or left the territory to the population registry and the daily allotment of electricity. The closure shaped entire generations that have grown up amid repeated cycles of violence, with military incursions, airstrikes and severely restricted freedom of movement."

Pierluigi Bizzini

Pierluigi Bizzini

"Pergusa has become a symbol of the ongoing climate crisis, a crisis that future generations will pay dearly for. What has happened at Pergusa is a foretaste of what other fragile ecosystems will face in the future if action is not taken soon. Here, in the heart of Sicily, in the heart of the Mediterranean, we have witnessed the end of the seasons."

Alex Rowell

Alex Rowell

"Watching the devastation of the country I had long considered home from my new perch in Scotland, I wonder: How sustainable is this? How many more times can Lebanon and its people withstand this much death and destruction?"

Hanna Bechiche

Hanna Bechiche

"The successful armed struggle for independence enabled Algeria to position itself as the spearhead of African liberation and the champion of pan-African unification. A foreign policy focused on providing material and political support to every African liberation movement propelled Algeria to the forefront of a nascent postcolonial order overflowing with optimism and idealism for a new Africa — free, anticolonial and revolutionary."