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Making Every Vote Count

Electronic voting in Brazil.

  • F. Daniel Hidalgo

Cash Cows

Thanks to dairy farmers, there is hope for a sustainable middle class in East Africa.

  • Jennifer Wheary

Troublemakers

Rural Chileans Fight to Keep Dams out of Patagonia

  • Carlota McAllister

Hosts

Playing football in the Soloman Islands. 

  • Matthew Fishbane

How Not to Talk about Gaza

Talking about Gaza is like talking about God. We face the ineffable. We cannot talk about what we see.

  • Colin Dayan

Our Men in Honduras

Losing Control of the War on Drugs

  • Lauren Carasik

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New Model Army

The Liberian army embarks on its first combat mission since the end of the country’s brutal civil war.

  • Clair MacDougall

Home for the Eid

Ramadan in Cairo and Istanbul

  • Ahmed Moor

This Machine Helps Fascists

Split on Greek Left Aids Nationalist Golden Dawn Party

  • Ari Paul

I, Too, Have Messed with LIBOR

Toying with the Immutable Laws of Finance

  • Omer Rosen

Serbia’s Brokeback Mountain

Srđan Dragojević’s film about the aspirations of gay Serbs may finally be puncturing a culture of homophobia.

  • Paul Hockenos

Remembering Trouillot

He taught us all how to read carefully, argue passionately, and write responsibly.

  • Colin Dayan

The New Religious Intolerance

An interview with Martha Nussbaum on the growing anti-Muslim agitations in Europe and the United States.

  • David V. Johnson

Juárez Rebounds . . . Sort of

From 2008 until 2011, Juárez was among the world’s most violent cities.

  • Sarah Hill

The Salafi Question

Egypt’s Constitutional Moment

  • Amitai Etzioni

Purifying Kashmir

Saudi Arabia exports Salafism to the war-torn region

  • Tariq Mir

The Antidepressant Wars

A fierce debate that ignores patients.

  • Sandra J. Tanenbaum

After the Slaughter

Have recent events in Afghanistan brought the war to a critical turning point? For U.S. troops stationed there, little has changed.

  • Matt Gallagher

Plague of Locusts

Our Failure to Regulate Drone Warfare

  • Richard Falk

In Vain Have We Sanctioned

Harsher measures against Iran won’t work.

  • Akbar Ganji

Beautiful Resistance

Revolutionary theater in Palestine.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Friends and Dictators

Cozying up to central Asia’s most brutal regimes.

  • Tara McKelvey

No Saudi Spring

The anatomy of a failed revolution.

  • Madawi Al-Rasheed

Storms Without Names

Climate Change Wreaking Havoc in Central America

  • Douglas Haynes
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