Politics

International

‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’

What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as so many families have lived it.

May 29, 2025 issue

Nic Johnson

Breaking the Conveyor Belt

Motivated perhaps above all by culture-war grievance, in the past month Donald Trump has tried to radically reshape a century-old system of global trade.

April 20, 2025

Omer Bartov

‘Infinite License’

The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met.

April 24, 2025 issue

Christopher de Bellaigue

Iran: A Grand Bargain?

The conditions necessary to negotiate a new nuclear deal and revive commercial ties between Iran and the US are in sight.

May 29, 2025 issue

Fintan O’Toole

Shredding the Postwar Order

Donald Trump is reshaping relations between Europe and the US more dramatically than at any time since World War II.

April 24, 2025 issue

Christian Caryl

How Germany Remade Itself

A close look at the postwar history of Germany suggests that its progress toward democracy has not always been as stable or straightforward as modern-day observers might assume.

April 10, 2025 issue

Joshua Leifer

Reoccupying Gaza

A consensus has by now emerged among Israel’s leaders that the country’s army will take direct, long-term control of the Strip—and attempt to expel its inhabitants.

April 23, 2025

Rowan Moore Gerety

Mozambique on the Edge

For months, the country’s people have been taking to the streets in the aftermath of a falsified election. Could the protests bring lasting change?

March 28, 2025

Global Migration

Willa Glickman

‘People Are Not a Crisis’

Eric Adams has insisted that his administration is doing its best to house New York’s asylum seekers, but the city’s shortage of shelter space is the result of political choices.

July 23, 2023

Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Emma Ramadan

Exiles

I recognize in these young people—driven from their homes by war, famine, poverty—an unshakable energy called Hope.

July 11, 2023

Aida Alami

The Land of Dust and Plastic

In Almería, the Moroccan and West African migrant workers who sustain the region’s booming agriculture industry find themselves either neglected or persecuted by the state.

June 24, 2023

John Washington

Journey to the North

Javier Zamora’s retelling of the almost lethal three-thousand-mile journey he made from El Salvador to the US as a child gives the experience of migration extraordinary immediacy.

June 8, 2023 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

Gal Koplewitz

‘Legal Whack-A-Mole’

Since October 7, Israel’s oldest and most prominent human rights group has faced stiffer opposition than ever before.

May 9, 2025

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Justice for Chagos?

Decades after the Indian Ocean island colony’s inhabitants were forcibly deported to accommodate an American military base, the ICJ has ruled that they be allowed to return. But is international law sufficient to bring them justice?

May 15, 2025 issue

Yassin al-Haj Saleh, translated by Yasmine Seale

The Return

Syria will not be liberated as long as the better part of her, you, remains a hostage of this long-drawn-out captivity.

April 10, 2025

Julia Preston

In Trump’s Dragnet

Over the past two months, the president has been doing just what he promised during his campaign: assaulting every aspect of the US immigration system.

March 30, 2025

Nabil Salih

The New Baghdad

The Iraqi capital is witnessing an inequitable construction boom, as the elite launder oil money and the state reconfigures sites of dissent.

March 22, 2025

Nadia Abu El-Haj

‘Mahmoud Is Not Safe’

Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is the result not just of the Trump administration’s agenda but of more than a year of moral panic around pro-Palestine protest.

March 15, 2025

Joshua Craze

USAID: Goodbye to All That?

By gutting USAID, the Trump administration has imperiled the lives of thousands—and threatened the very future of the humanitarian and development industries.

March 12, 2025