Dispatch
The War on Gaza Has Not Ended
A hundred days after Trump’s Board of Peace was ratified, nothing has improved here.
Standing at the Gates of Hell
In the West Bank, the war on Iran has removed all restraints on settler violence against Palestinians.
The Catastrophe That Has Befallen All of Us
The director of an art center in Tehran on life under U.S.-Israeli bombardment.
The Shadow of Iraq
Crisis returns to Baghdad in the aftermath of the expanding U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
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.
The Struggle for Honduras
U.S. meddling casts a dark shadow over recent elections, following four years of left-wing government under Xiomara Castro.
Profiting in Nowhereland
The sordid histories behind Texas’s new industrial-scale immigration detention center, Camp East Montana.
The Kitchen Tables Behind Mamdani’s Kitchen-Table Strategy
Staging sites aren’t new to political campaigns, but they’ve never been done like this before.
Kill It with Fire
In Spain, ultra-nationalist efforts to rehabilitate Franco extend the global right’s war on memory.
Post Colonialism
Along a recently designated historic trail on the U.S.-Mexico border, colonial legacies hide in plain sight.
Dispatch from Ukraine
As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.
Dispatch from Kharkiv National University
On the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Letter from Beirut
In the wake of the devastating port explosion, civil society has shown the way forward—filling the void of a nonexistent and incapacitated state.
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