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Algerians Are Ho-Hum About Upcoming Election

The Crumbling Promise of Algeria's 'New Era'

How Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Championed Women’s Rights

From Market Stalls to Mass Protests

Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing

India’s Abortion Laws Offer Pregnant Women an Illusion of Choice

An Illusion of Choice

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, India’s top court moved to further protect access to safe and legal abortion. But recent court cases have revealed the legal and bureaucratic hurdles that limit the right to choose.

The Imagined Intelligence Seducing the Military

Stranger Than Fiction

Why Niger Left the West and Embraced Russia

The Coup That Shook the Sahel

Floriana Bulfon

Hezbollah Fighters’ Stories as Told by Their Mothers

The Road to Martyrdom

The Development Economist Leading Bangladesh’s Transitional Government

Bangladesh, Global Thought

A Global Thinker in Power

America’s National Parks Remain a Beacon in an Era of Climate Change

Finding Hope in the Wilderness

Nina Rachel Dietz

Stalin the Influencer

Podcasts

Listen Again: Looking Twice at the History of Eyeliner — with Zahra Hankir

Listen Again: Looking Twice at the History of Eyeliner — with Zahra Hankir

Listen Again: Toxic Masculinity Online in Kenya and South Africa — with Caroline Kimeu and Rosie Motene

Listen Again: Toxic Masculinity Online in Kenya and South Africa — with Caroline Kimeu and Rosie Motene

The Battle for the Future of the Democratic Party — with Eman Abdelhadi and David Faris

The Battle for the Future of the Democratic Party — with Eman Abdelhadi and David Faris

Editors' Picks

A Film About a Goatherding Indian Migrant Sparks a Gulf Controversy

A Film About a Goatherding Indian Migrant Sparks a Gulf Controversy

Surbhi Gupta, Amal Al Saeedi

Hezbollah Fighters’ Stories as Told by Their Mothers

Hezbollah Fighters’ Stories as Told by Their Mothers

The Development Economist Leading Bangladesh’s Transitional Government

The Development Economist Leading Bangladesh’s Transitional Government

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Contributors

Ghanna Mamonova

Ghanna Mamonova

“Before the dam explosion, residents of the Kherson region in southeastern Ukraine referred to the local reservoir simply as the ‘sea.’ Now, just one year after the June 6, 2023, attack on the Kakhovka Dam, they call it the ‘dead sea.’”

Ola Salem

Ola Salem

"As far as divorce stories in the Middle East go, the significance of this one is particularly striking. The Arab princess suggests that her husband, Prince Mana Al Maktoum, has been cheating on her, and not with just one person but multiple people. She then invokes the Islamic practice of declaring divorce three times in a row for an instant, final divorce."

Mohamed Mandour

Mohamed Mandour

"For the first time in Israel’s history, the Committee to Protect Journalists named the country among the top 10 jailers of journalists worldwide. Currently, 49 Palestinian journalists remain in prison, nearly half of them under administrative detention, meaning that they are detained without charge or trial and their detention can be extended indefinitely."

Frank Smyth

Frank Smyth

"The ideology of gun rights revolves around a single belief: that regulating guns is a slippery slope to tyranny and subjugation, if not genocide, and that any new regulations — from more thorough background checks to tougher laws to stop the trafficking of guns — must be stopped, if not rolled back, lest our freedoms be taken away."