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What Future for South African Democracy?

Student protests and the deepening crisis of the post-apartheid order

  • Vito Laterza
  • Ayanda Manqoyi

Weaponizing Syria’s Water

For anti-Assad rebels, a southern spring has become a kind of suicide bomb.

  • Alisa Reznick

As EU Technocrats Falter, the French Right Gains

The Front National is not in government, but it’s still making gains.

  • Arthur Goldhammer

A Rock and a Hard Place

The neglect and abuse of Pakistan’s tribal areas.

  • Umar Farooq

Paris in Terror

On France’s long history of political violence.

  • Julian Bourg

The Riptide of Technocracy

Is a centralized European Union compatible with democracy?

  • Jonathan White

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Reliable Rebel

Jeremy Corbyn and the Revival of the Radical Left

  • Martin O’Neill

Half a Loaf

In Israel and Palestine, two states are still better than one.

  • Assaf Sharon

The Failure of Refugee Camps

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.

  • Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Open Letter to the People of the United States of America

Iranian citizens urge Americans to support the U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement.

One Nigeria Under God

Nigeria's recent election encouraged alliances among Muslims and Christians.

  • Laura Premack

Toxic Tourism

  • Tom Barry

Beaches and Bombs

On vacationing in Vieques.

  • Sarah Hill

How Not to Be Elizabeth Gilbert

For female travel writers, it’s a risk.

  • Jessa Crispin

The Americans Are Coming

Traveling to Cuba after revised White House policies.

  • Sarah Hill

Open Letter to Gayle Smith, Nominee for USAID Administrator

At USAID there’s one simple thing you can commit to: no famine.

  • Alex de Waal

The Rise of the Populist Right in Norway

Across Europe, the hold of traditional centrist parties—whether social democratic, liberal, or conservative—seems to be slipping away.

  • Sindre Bangstad

Leaving ISIS

Hammad joined ISIS in 2013, impressed by their ambition and military prowess. He left when he saw their tyranny.

  • Umar Farooq

Life Sings with Many Voices

Eduardo Galeano began as a propagandist, convinced of a single dogmatic truth. He became an artist.

  • Nathan J. Robinson

How the Truth About Palestine Won Netanyahu the Israeli Election

He now has the power to establish, if he wishes, a coalition consisting exclusively of extreme right and religious parties.

  • Omri Boehm

Dead Man Talking

Brazil's Spiritists Redefine Religion

  • Laura Premack

The Jerusalem Forest

Serving in the Israeli army as a foreign volunteer.

  • J. A. Bernstein

Cuba’s Long Memory

What to expect from the renewed relations.

  • Alan West-Duran

Brazil’s Era of Possibility

A Berkeley radical returns to his native Brazil after the Berlin Wall's fall.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi
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