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Apartheid’s Unpunished Killers

South Africa has cultivated an aura of moral authority grounded in its peaceful transition from apartheid. But that image obscures a darker truth, for the state has systematically failed to pursue the justice that was promised in hundreds of cases of political murder and torture committed by the apartheid regime.

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The Hard Truth About Nigeria’s Performance-Enhancing Potions
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Republican Politics and Crypto Scams
Forest Fires and Accusations in the New Syria
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Syria’s Forests Are on Fire

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The Deadly Remnants of Syria’s War
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The Bombs Beneath Their Feet

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What Iran Wants

What Iran Wants

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A Mamdani State of Mind

A Mamdani State of Mind

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Losing Control? An Iranian and an Israeli on the Recent War

Losing Control? An Iranian and an Israeli on the Recent War

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The Hiking Trails Reshaping Lebanese Tourism
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Hiking the Lebanon Trail

The 19th-Century Precursors to the Crises of Trump’s America
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A Violent Inheritance

The Political Machine Feeding Turkey’s Wildfires
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Feeding the Flames

The Toll of Israel’s War on Iran
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The Liberation Fantasy

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The Key to Understanding Iran Is Poetry

The Key to Understanding Iran Is Poetry

Muhammad Ali Mojaradi
Aleppo’s Christians Weigh an Uncertain Future

Aleppo’s Christians Weigh an Uncertain Future

Fadi Hallisso
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The War We Don’t See —With Arwa Damon and Faisal Al Yafai

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Role Reversals: A Palestinian in the Jewish Museum of Berlin on October 7 – With Dana El Kurd
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Kamal Shahin
Kamal Shahin

"These massacres will be forgotten. Just like the other massacres that took place in Assad’s Syria. Just like the massacres throughout history. The world will move on, and no one will remember that among the dead were civilians, that among the dead were men from General Security. There will be no trials, no reckoning. No need to prosecute such insignificant crimes — not when the course of nations is determined by interests, not morals."

Joanne Drayton
Joanne Drayton

"DNA tests should come with a billboard-sized warning. Because once you take the test, there is no turning back. If what you learn is life-changing or unwanted, there is no putting those facts back in the box and closing the lid. And maybe there can be no guarantee, either, that those facts will ever be expunged from the corporate record. You have possibly, as I did, unleashed the furies."

Rasha Elass
Rasha Elass

"And yet, Syrians persevere. They survived decades of brutal dictatorship, 15 years of civil war fueled by regional actors and, when the Assad regime finally fell, learned the extent of the systematic disappearances and mass executions that had claimed the lives of their loved ones on an industrial scale."

Cian Ward
Cian Ward

"The fate of an ancient language, once spoken by the prophets and revered by millions, may now hinge on a single individual and a small group of determined souls. Aramaic is more than just words, it is the lifeblood of a people and a civilization. Its survival depends not on destiny, but on the will of those who refuse to let it slip into oblivion."