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Seizing Kashmir

For decades India has refused to acknowledge Kashmiri demands for self-determination. Now Modi has a new strategy—a settler project.

  • Tariq Mir

A Crack in Putin’s Armor

What the concert hall attack means for the Russian leader’s future.

  • Rajan Menon

Walter Rodney’s Radical Legacy

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

  • Shozab Raza
  • Noaman G. Ali

Beneath the Razor Wire

Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.

  • Paul Hockenos

Warfare Dressed as Water Policy

Palestine’s water access has always been restricted—but now, Israel is using it as a weapon.

  • Andrew Ross

The Earth for Man

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.

  • Jo Guldi

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When Courts Matter

The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.

  • Jacob S. Abolafia
  • Jonathan S. Gould

Russia Cannot Be Isolated Indefinitely

Menon responds to his critics.

  • Rajan Menon

How to End the War in Ukraine

On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

  • Rajan Menon
with responses from
  • Miriam Pemberton
  • Oxana Shevel
  • Kathryn Stoner
  • Andrew J. Bacevich
  • Charles A. Kupchan
  • Michael Brenes
  • Liana Fix
  • Jack Lewis Snyder
  • Taras Bilous
  • Neta C. Crawford

Russia Can’t Win This War

Russia must be isolated.

  • Oxana Shevel

We Need a New Military Doctrine

Military proliferation is unwise and unnecessary.

  • Neta C. Crawford

A Better-Armed Ukraine Is the Best Path to Peace

Our understanding of Russia’s motive is misguided.

  • Kathryn Stoner

A Diplomatic Roadmap

The West needs to start preparing for a stalemate.

  • Charles A. Kupchan

Making Stalemate a Goal

Could Ukraine be a buffer between Russia and NATO?

  • Jack Lewis Snyder

The American Tradition of Statecraft is a Cliché

Military primacy, not peace, is Biden’s main goal.

  • Andrew J. Bacevich

Progressives and a New Global Order

The daunting task of Ukrainian reconstruction demands new frameworks for humanitarian assistance and development.

  • Michael Brenes

Hope is an Expensive Commodity

Russia will not negotiate in earnest.

  • Liana Fix

The Prospects for Lasting Peace

Peace will not be achieved until Putin’s regime falls.

  • Taras Bilous

How to Avert Climate Catastrophe

Acknowledging the immediacy of global warming does not mean succumbing to despair.

Human Rights and Their Discontents

Advocacy of human rights has a long history on the left, but does it have a future?

A Very Short History of Freedom and Violence

An anti-imperialism reading list for July 4th.

The New Old Geography

Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.

  • Lawrence Rosen

Our Global Food System Was Already in Crisis. Russia’s War Will Make It Worse

The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.

  • Raj Patel

SNCC’s Unruly Internationalism

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

  • Dan Berger
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