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Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...

On a state visit to Japan in May 2016, Barack Obama delivered a speech in Hiroshima that won immediate praise from Terumi Tanaka, at the time the secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese ...

Paolo Giordano is an Italian writer. His latest novel is Tasmania, published in October 2024. Nihon Hidankyo, winners of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, make us see what we cannot: the consequences of our ...

Like many women at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2024 Biennial, I lingered for a long time before “The Last Safe Abortion,” Carmen Winant’s assemblage of more than 2,500 photographs of abortion ...

I first arrived in Frankfurt, in this city of immigrants and exiles, in the fall of 1980, as a foreign student and scholar whose life was forever changed by her encounter with it. In Frankfurt I met ...

A year after the October 7 attacks in Israel, no end to Israel’s war is on the horizon. This week’s reading list compiles selections from our coverage of the past year, the larger context of the ...

Francis Wade is a London-based journalist covering political violence, identity, borders, and displacement. He is author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim Other.

“What’s worse than any pain is being without him, and what’s worse even still is that it’s his idea to go.” ...