Continuing World Coverage

• December 1, 2021

  The Hindu Right and Attacks on Academic Freedom in the US

  Every scholar who conducts research on India is aware that their publications are probably being monitored—and that taking a critical position can lead to threats, beatings, and even murder.

  Vinayak Chaturvedi

• November 30, 2021

  The Staggeringly High Price of a Prison Phone Call

  It’s outrageous that a billion-dollar industry exists based on skimming profits from some of society’s most vulnerable people.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

• November 30, 2021

  Brittany Ramos DeBarros Took on the War Machine. Now She’s Running for Congress.

  Can an anti-war ex–Army officer defeat a centrist Dem and a Trumpian Republican in New York City’s most conservative district?

  Liza Featherstone

• November 29, 2021

  Placing “Guardrails” on the US-China Nuclear Competition

  A failure to challenge inflated claims about China’s nuclear arsenal will have serious and painful consequences.

  Michael T. Klare

Africa

• November 24, 2021

  Who Killed Thomas Sankara?

  Can a trial set the record straight about the assassination of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary Marxist leader?

  Clair MacDougall

• October 19, 2021

  Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways?

  The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development insists it’s “inclusive,” but it’s still strong-arming countries in the Global South.

  Steven Dean

• July 22, 2021

  3 Things Biden Can Do Right Now to Stop Covid and Save Lives

  Unless the president changes course, and confronts Big Pharma, the past six months will indelibly tarnish his legacy.

  Gregg Gonsalves

• July 15, 2021

  What Will Be the Language of Our Digital Future?

  Without online diversity, only a handful of people will dictate the fate of the world.

  Nanjala Nyabola

Asia

• November 20, 2021

  Where Is Peng Shuai? And What Is the IOC Going to Do About It?

  With the 2022 Beijing Olympics looming, the IOC’s silence in the case of a missing tennis star who accused a Chinese official of sexual assault speaks volumes.

  Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

• November 8, 2021

  This Is the End of the American Century

  It sure has been a disaster.

  Tom Engelhardt

• November 8, 2021

  Modi's India Is “One of the Most Dangerous Countries for Journalists”

  The police now routinely file criminal charges against journalists, including sedition​ charges, for the ​crime of reporting​.

  Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia

• October 28, 2021

  Do We Really Need Another Cold War?

  The world barely survived the first one—Biden could prevent the next.

  David Vine

Europe

• November 29, 2021

  Europe’s War on Woke

  Why elites across the Atlantic are freaking out about the concept of structural racism.

  James McAuley

• November 19, 2021

  The Trap at the Poland–Belarus Border

  Why the Polish ruling party turned a minor border crisis into an “existential threat.”

  David Ost

• November 18, 2021

  Finnish Democracy Is on the Brink

  Finland is vulnerable to the same threats that confront democracies across the EU—the popular appeal of nativist parties, polarized political discourse, and cyber-bullying of minority and female politicians.

  David L. Kirp

• November 15, 2021

  The Face of the New French Right

  The pundit Éric Zemmour is leading a confident and radicalized conservative movement.

  Harrison Stetler

Latin America

• November 29, 2021

  Gayl Jones’s Epic of Liberation

  In her new novel, Jones offers a story of slavery and freedom in the Americas.

  Farah Jasmine Griffin

• November 22, 2021

  Donald Duck Quacks Again as Chile Elects a New President

  A half-century after it fed the Pinochet regime’s bonfire of heretical books, a celebrated “handbook of decolonization” has new relevance to a country on the brink of a momentous choice.

  Ariel Dorfman

• November 22, 2021

  Francia Márquez Mina Confronts Colombia’s “Politics of Death”

  The first Black woman to run for president in Colombia has ignited a movement.

  Juan Mejia and Olivia Heffernan

• November 18, 2021

  The Latest Round of Protests in Cuba Are a Bust—for Now

  But US sanctions and Covid have kept the island in a vise only made worse by a dysfunctional economy and long overdue reforms.

  Ed Augustin

Middle East

• November 9, 2021

  It Doesn’t Pay to Be Right About America’s Wars

  This country hates to be reminded that not everyone was duped by the domino theory.

  Nick Turse

• November 9, 2021

  Letters From the November 15/22, 2021, Issue

  Readers respond to the hiring of Mohammed El-Kurd as Palestine correspondent.

  Our Readers

• November 5, 2021

  For the Women of Afghanistan, the War Isn’t Over

  War is never over when it’s over—but especially for the women of Afghanistan, both at home and abroad.

  Ann Jones

• November 4, 2021

  “I Would Like to See ‘The New York Times’ Wash the Blood Off Its Hands”

  An interview with Mohammed El-Kurd about his fearless grandmother, Palestinian literature, and why the paper of record needs a Palestine correspondent.

  Noura Erakat