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Baghdad’s Blank Slate
The massive development projects the Iraqi government has planned for the city seem designed to wipe it clean of its past memories.
A Good Neighbor
The late Marcel Ophuls made films about the twentieth century’s great crimes—and the trail of guilt they left behind.
Our Most Loved Pieces of 2025
Revisit the writing from this year that readers turned to the most.
The Struggle for Honduras
U.S. meddling casts a dark shadow over recent elections, following four years of left-wing government under Xiomara Castro.
The Land Question
Fighting apartheid has become a global paradigm for justice struggles. That’s not how many Black liberationists in South Africa understood their cause.
The Real Border Crisis
The problem isn’t immigration. It’s the failure of liberal democracy itself.
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‘Blood Ties’ is one of those essays that feels like it’s about everything—a non-exhaustive list: conspiracy, opioid addiction, public health care (and the absence thereof), post–Cold War American foreign policy, NAFTA and the border—but its ranginess is never arbitrary or cynical: it’s the product of an extraordinary mind insisting on connections that, as Morefield argues, we are perennially being coerced into unseeing.
—Mark Krotov, publisher and editor of n+1, on Jeanne Morefield’s “Blood Ties” (2024)
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“The contested election is emblematic of crises being created and inflamed around the world by Trump’s bellicose foreign policy.”
—Lauren Carasik, “The Struggle for Honduras”
“Few of the term’s adoptees have bothered to ask if ‘apartheid’ accurately describes the genesis of the injustices in South African history—and elsewhere.”
—Panashe Chigumadzi, “The Land Question”
“The anti-gender movement is hateful and wrong about more or less everything. But what they are attacking is not always something I can defend with much enthusiasm.”
—Lorna Finlayson, “Tainted Ladies”
“Even progressives who reject specific right-wing migration policies have bought into the broader politics behind them.”
—“The Real Border Crisis,” a forum led by Lea Ypi
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