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Sliman Mansour’s Palestine
Sliman Mansour spent a lifetime using his art to preserve Palestinian identity and connect people to their land, inspiring generations of artists in his wake. A writer who knew him from childhood as a close friend of her father remembers the gentle, humble man behind the iconic paintings.
The Abuses Stitched Into Our Clothes
In an exclusive investigation, New Lines reports on the Turkish textile factories where women workers face forced overtime and sexual harassment — factories that feed the supply chains for many famous clothing brands across the United States and Europe.
ICE Turns Its Sights on Buryat Asylum-Seekers
Buryats, a persecuted Mongol minority in Russia, are one of the latest groups in the U.S. to be denied asylum. After a near miss with ICE, one truck driver recalls the Russia he fled, the America he sought and what he fears if he gets deported.
How France’s Religious Nationalists Hijacked the Pope’s Visit
From far-right billionaires to ultraconservative TikTok influencers, a who’s who of France’s identitarian Catholics played a role in the pope’s first visit to France since his election, and left Easter eggs all along his route for their followers to see.
Waiting for Yemen’s al-Sharaa
In a large online propaganda campaign in September, Yemen's government and its Saudi backers invoked Syria's revolution to promise Sanaa’s liberation. Within days, the Houthis had taken the coast of Bab al-Mandab.
Why Ethiopia Is at War Once Again
Jalale Getachew Birru and Alan Boswell join Kwangu Liwewe Agyei to discuss renewed fighting in Tigray, a new alliance of armed groups against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea's changing role.
Why Homelessness Remains Such a Vexing Issue in the US
U.S. cities and counties have been emboldened to enforce laws about sleeping in the street, but crackdowns like those in Oregon won’t end a crisis fueled by a drug epidemic, a housing shortage, and rising poverty and mental health afflictions.