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Armed, Gay and Looking for Redemption

Armed, Gay and Looking for Redemption

Chase Oliver, the 39-year-old Libertarian candidate for president, wants his party to change American politics. But can he distance it from its history of bigotry and conspiracy theories?

Looking Back at ‘All-American Muslim’

Looking Back at ‘All-American Muslim’

The reality TV show “All-American Muslim” brought an Arab-American community in Dearborn to national attention long before the current wave of interest in the city’s electoral significance. It changed its participants’ lives, and sparked conversations that are still developing today.

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

Political scientists John Sides and Sheri Berman tell New Lines’ Danny Postel which issues will decide the American election.

The Lasting Power of Jinns in Tunisian Society

The Lasting Power of Jinns in Tunisian Society

Beliefs in magic and jinn possession persist in Tunisia, despite over 150 years of attempts to weed them out by rationalist reformers, postindependence modernizers and Islamists — with rumors suggesting that even former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his wife practiced sorcery.

Why Kamala Harris Needs a Western Balkans Policy

Why Kamala Harris Needs a Western Balkans Policy

The Biden administration’s policy of embracing Serbia’s authoritarian leader in an attempt to lure him out of Russia’s orbit has backfired, deepening dangerous fissures in Bosnia. If Kamala Harris is to regain U.S. influence in the region she must reorient Washington’s foreign policy in the Balkans.