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
Muslim Brothers: The Rivalry That Shaped Modern Egypt
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.
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Nordic dominance: The 25 most tolerant, progressive, and environmentally friendly countries in the world
Edith Hancock | 07 Jan 2017 | Business Insider Nordic In the wake of Trump’s victory in the US election and a vote for Brexit in the EU referendum, expat website Movehub has created a guide for those wanting to move to a more socially liberal country i …
What If a President Loses Control?
Jeffrey Frank | 05 January 2017 | The New Yorker When John F. Kennedy spoke at the United Nations on September 25, 1961, he talked about the dangers of the atomic age. “Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet ma …
The Secret Life of Time
Alan Burdick | December 19 & 26, 2016 Issue | The New Yorker It may seem slippery and maddeningly abstract, but it’s also deeply intimate, infusing our every word and gesture. Illustration by Miguel Porlan Some nights—more than I like, lately—I wak …
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