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The Man Who Refused to Spy
Published: September 14, 2020

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 …


How a Single Remark Stole a Lithuanian Writer’s Livelihood
Published: December 16, 2017

Masha Gessen | December 15, 2017 | The New Yorker Rūta Vanagaitė was a best-selling author in Lithuania. Then she contradicted the story her country tells about itself. The title page of Rūta Vanagaitė’s best-known book contains two pictures of young m …


A Second Look at the Steele Dossier—Knowing What We Know Now
Published: September 7, 2017

John Sipher | Wednesday, September 6, 2017 | Just Security Photo Credit: Associated Press [Editor’s Note: In this special Just Security article, highly respected former member of the CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service, John Sipher examines the Steele do …


Kenya’s New Electoral Authoritarianism
Published: August 19, 2017

AZIZ RANA | August 17, 2017 | Boston Review Last week’s bitterly contested election in Kenya has placed the country in the international spotlight. Although sitting President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner by the electoral commission, oppositio …


How Women Lived Under Soviet Rule
Published: August 13, 2017

NINA KRUSHCHEVA | SEPTEMBER 2017 ISSUE | THE ATLANTIC In collecting and sharing their testimonies, the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich took on the role of “a witness to witnesses who usually go unheard.” Theatrical productions of The Unwomanly Face …


HOW THE SIX-DAY WAR CHANGED ISRAEL’S MIND
Published: June 5, 2017

Bernard Avishai | 5 June 2017 | THE NEW YORKER Israeli soldiers, who recaptured the Old City from the Jordanians during the Six-Day War, carry a confiscated portrait of Jordan’s King Hussein through East Jerusalem, June, 1967. PHOTOGRAPH BY LEONARD FRE …


Zbigniew Brzezinski
Published: May 28, 2017

JAMES FALLOWS | MAY 27, 2017 | THE ATLANTIC An active, impatient man who evolved a steady, long-term view. Zbigniew Brzezinski, then in his late 40s, briefs reporters on Middle East talks between President Carter and Syrian President Hafez Assad in Gen …


Fictions of fascism: what twentieth century dystopia can (and can’t) teach us about Trump
Published: March 7, 2017

John Gray | 5 March 2017 | The New Statesman Dystopian novels of the 1930s and 1940s feel topical once again – but how much do they tell us about Trump and today’s populist upheavals? A 20th-century novelist pictured a Nazi diplomat ruminating over the …


The Rules for Rulers
Published: March 5, 2017

CGP Grey | Oct 24, 2016 


Donald Trump and the US media are in a fight to the finish – and they’re both guilty of peddling alternative facts
Published: February 17, 2017

Patrick Cockburn | Friday 17 February 2017 | The Independent Fake news may have helped hand Trump the presidency, but he is now finding it is a double-edged sword The President goes on the attack during a news conference in the East Room of the White H …


The Arabs, the US and Trump
Published: January 29, 2017

Hassan Nafaa | 26 January, 2017 | Al-Ahram In the Obama era, the Arabs did almost nothing to define and defend together their common interests. This simply must change now, writes Hassan Nafaa Here is the 44th president of the United States, Barack Hus …


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