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Sovereignty’s End and Beginning
In Somaliland, the pursuit of statehood has come with a bitter irony.
The Machines Get in the Way
The work of art—and the work of making art—in an age increasingly hostile to it.
Dispatches from the Forever Wars
A special section in our Spring 2026 issue, with writing from Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and the West Bank.
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The War on Iran: A Conversation
A roundtable on the consequences of U.S. and Israeli aggression, reactions from Iran and the Iranian diaspora, and the future of Iranian struggles for freedom and democracy.
“To live forever, to be truly good, and to know—to really know—the truth. Whole lives—whole generations!—have been wasted in the pursuit of these impossibilities.”
—“The Reality Drive,” a short story by Emmett Rensin
“Reichardt’s finely plotted films, despite their slowness and open-endedness, are often gripping examples of genre as much as they are deconstructions of it.”
—Jacob Rubin, “Art Thieves”
“Making art while making a living, connecting as opposed to transacting with the world: both have become harder, and harder than they have to be.”
—Luke Dunne, “The Machines Get in the Way”
“For Somaliland, sovereignty hasn’t just been a practical matter but an existential one as well.”
—Farah Bakaari, “Sovereignty’s End and Beginning”
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