The Human Cost of El Salvador’s Gang Crackdown
In 2022, President Nayib Bukele implemented a temporary state of exception to combat gang violence in El Salvador. It remains in effect three years later, amid claims that it has enabled systematic human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests, torture, inhumane prison conditions, forced labor and detention without due process.
How Anti-Fascism United French Women Pacifists With Tunisia’s Independence Movement
In the 1930s, a group of French women pacifists in Tunisia fighting against fascism began to see the oppression of French rule up close — and became allies of the country’s independence movement.
Pakistan Is Quietly Shopping for New Proxies in Afghanistan
As Pakistan’s relationship with the Taliban deteriorates, Islamabad is discreetly courting Afghan opposition groups in search of a new ally. Interviews with figures such as Yasin Zia and Ahmad Massoud reveal how Pakistan’s Afghan policy is shifting — and why a cycle of proxy politics may be doomed to repeat itself.
How an Ecological Disaster in Mauritius Awakened a People
When the MV Wakashio smashed into a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius in 2020, it created a sense of national unity and fed into a wave of political anger. Yet the search for justice following the oil spill and the cleanup is testing the islanders’ resolve.
Syria Begins Its Coastal Massacre Trial
Syria is holding its first public trial since Assad’s fall, a live-broadcast reckoning over the coastal massacres in March that brought alleged perpetrators on both sides before the same judge in Aleppo.