Politics

International

Israel: The Way Out

If Israel is to survive, physically and spiritually, it needs to undergo, collectively, a sea change in its vision of reality and face some unpleasant though obvious facts.

May 9, 2024 issue

Christian Caryl

Mourning Navalny

Alexey Navalny’s death represents the culmination of the Kremlin’s efforts to push the country into a political deep freeze, but his legacy is a new generation of Russians who yearn to imagine alternatives to Putin’s regime.

April 4, 2024 issue

Tim Judah

Gloom in Ukraine

Two years after the Russian invasion, Ukrainian morale has plummeted.

April 18, 2024 issue

Margaret Scott

Indonesia’s Corrupted Democracy

Behind the victory of his chosen successor in February’s elections lies a complicated story of how outgoing President Joko Widodo has co-opted much of Indonesian society while consolidating immense power.

April 4, 2024 issue

Joshua Hammer

Iraq’s Twenty Years of Carnage

Two journalists give eyewitness accounts of the immeasurable damage inflicted on Iraq since the US invasion.

March 21, 2024 issue

Gary Younge

Small Island

What has happened to Britain?

March 21, 2024 issue

Jonathan Steele

The Party Line

A new book about Western journalists’ experience in Moscow during World War II sheds light on the problems of media manipulation and self-censorship in coverage of Russia today.

March 21, 2024 issue

Gary Saul Morson

Russian Exceptionalism

After the fall of the USSR, liberalism, considered foreign, was overwhelmed by various types of nationalism, one of which, Eurasianism, seems to have achieved the status of a semiofficial ideology.

February 22, 2024 issue

From the Archive: Palestine

Tareq Baconi

What Apartheid Means for Israel

A growing consensus has formed around the term—not as a rhetorical comparison to South Africa, but describing a system of domination built on the partition of Palestine.

November 5, 2021

Jehad al-Saftawi

The Gaza I Grew Up In

Working as a photojournalist there is like walking barefoot in a field of thorns. You must always watch where you step.

November 6, 2020

Nathan Thrall

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.

March 19, 2021

Destroyed houses in the Shejaia neighborhood of Gaza City, July 26, 2014

Jonathan Freedland

Gaza vs. Liberal Zionism

Never do liberal Zionists feel more torn than when Israel is at war.

July 26, 2014

The Latest

Ben Rhodes

American Descent

Donald Trump and right-wing strongmen like him around the world are using grievance-based nationalism to gain power. When does this sort of populism tip into fascism?

August 15, 2024 issue