The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal. Laura Secor |September 14, 2020 | The New Yorker In the spring of 2017, an Iranian materials scientist named Sirous Asgari received a call from th …
The new ‘invisible enemy’ Published: July 19, 2020
Hisham Aïdi |14 Jul 2020 | Mail & Guardian Protesters gather during a “Black Lives Matter” protest near Barclays Center on May 29, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, in outrage after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died while being …
What Kim Wants Published: May 15, 2020
The Hopes and Fears of North Korea’s Dictator Jung H. Pak | May/June 2020 | Foreign Affairs North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches a missile launch in Pyongyang, September 2017KCNA / Reuters etween 2017 and 2019, relations between the United States an …
How to Topple a Dictator Published: September 1, 2018
Conway Hall | Published on Apr 10, 2015 In conversation with Nick Cohen, Srdja Popovic will explain how he became one of the leaders of Otpor! — the movement which overthrew dictator Slobodan Milosevic. He has since gone on to train the pro-democracy a …
THE RULES FOR RULERS Published: August 29, 2018
Muslim Brothers: The Rivalry That Shaped Modern Egypt Published: August 27, 2018
Shadi Hamid | September/October 2018 Issue | Foreign Policy Enemy of the State: Sayyid Qutb, 1966. AFP / Stringer / Getty Images Seven years since the heady days of early 2011, when massive, electrifying protests brought down the Egyptian dictator Hosn …
A Theory of Trump Kompromat or Why the President is so nice to Putin, even when Putin might not want him to be. Published: July 22, 2018
Adam Davidson | July 19, 2018 | The New Yorker President Trump’s persistent deference to Vladimir Putin has led many people to speculate that the Russian President is holding something over him.Photograph by Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty. The former …
The Sources of Soviet Conduct Published: April 28, 2018
“X” (George F. Kennan) | July 1947 Issue | Foreign Affairs Soviet tanks face U.S. tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, October 27, 1961 The political personality of Soviet power as we know it today is the product of ideology and circumstances: ideology inherit …
The Blesser’s Curse: How sugar daddies and vaginal microbes created the world’s largest HIV epidemic Published: March 24, 2018
Olga Khazan | Mar 22, 2018 | The Atlantic VULINDLELA, South Africa—Mbali N. was just 17 when a well-dressed man in his 30s spotted her. She was at a mall in a nearby town, alone, when he called out. He might have been captivated by her almond eyes and …
This Land Is Their Land Published: December 30, 2017
Suketu Mehta Illustration by Owen Freeman | September 12, 2017 | Foreign Policy Immigration is inevitable. When will the West learn that it promises salvation — not destruction? On Oct. 1, 1977, my parents, my two sisters, and I boarded a Lufthansa pla …