India’s Constitutional Coup in Kashmir Is Sowing the Seeds of Renewed Rebellion India’s Constitutional Coup in Kashmir Is Sowing the Seeds of Renewed Rebellion
Among Kashmiri Muslims, India is a foreign country and a hostile enemy. The latest decrees have provoked sorrow, despair, and anger.
Aug 13, 2019 / Barbara Crossette
Fordham’s Students for Justice in Palestine Did More Than Win Club Status Fordham’s Students for Justice in Palestine Did More Than Win Club Status
The group’s legal win is also a triumph against the nationwide right-wing push to suppress any free speech that criticizes Israel.
Aug 13, 2019 / StudentNation / Gunar Olsen
The Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The Supreme Court justice may have been heralded by many of his progressive peers, but the legacy he left behind is far more ambiguous.
Aug 13, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple
Richard Holbrooke and the Lost Idealism of a Generation Richard Holbrooke and the Lost Idealism of a Generation
Holbrooke’s public and personal life captures the contradictions of a cohort of liberals that came of age in the 1960s.
Aug 13, 2019 / Books & the Arts / David Klion
The Broken Promise of Colombia’s Peace Deal The Broken Promise of Colombia’s Peace Deal
Will President Iván Duque reignite his country’s 50-year-long civil war?
Aug 13, 2019 / Feature / Jonathan Levi and Marta Orrantia
‘We Call That Love’: Marc Lambert Lamba Defended Cameroon’s LGBT Community ‘We Call That Love’: Marc Lambert Lamba Defended Cameroon’s LGBT Community
Lambert, who died on August 4, was a pioneering LGBT activist who was there to help—even after foreign support dried up.
Aug 12, 2019 / Obituary / Robbie Corey-Boulet
How Indigenous Mexicans Took on Big Energy and Won How Indigenous Mexicans Took on Big Energy and Won
A natural gas pipeline was scheduled to go online in 2017, but TransCanada wasn’t counting on indigenous resistance.
Aug 12, 2019 / Martha Pskowski
Mexico’s Crackdown Is Making the Migrant Crisis Worse Mexico’s Crackdown Is Making the Migrant Crisis Worse
Under pressure from the US to ramp up deterrence, security forces have been implicated in the killing of at least two migrants this year.
Aug 9, 2019 / John Washington
Russia Needs Its Own Bernie Sanders Russia Needs Its Own Bernie Sanders
Can leftist sociologist and columnist Boris Kagarlitsky create room for a new politics in Russia?
Aug 7, 2019 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina
Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Keep Climbing During the ICC’s Summer Break Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Keep Climbing During the ICC’s Summer Break
The court at The Hague has a chance to investigate crimes against humanity in the US’s longest-running war—but so far, it refuses.
Aug 6, 2019 / Mohammed Harun Arsalai and Mohsin Khan Momand