Africa

Biden’s Foreign Policy Team Can’t Handle New Threats With Old Strategies

Biden’s Foreign Policy Team Can’t Handle New Threats With Old Strategies Biden’s Foreign Policy Team Can’t Handle New Threats With Old Strategies

How can the United States focus on new threats while sustaining endless wars and obsolete postures?

Mar 16, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Chinese and Djiboutian national flags

The Rise of the East Will Not End the Empire of the West The Rise of the East Will Not End the Empire of the West

China has no interest in destroying the system on which its success was built.

Mar 12, 2021 / Kehinde Andrews

Parenting in Exile From Egypt: The Choices I Made for My Daughters

Parenting in Exile From Egypt: The Choices I Made for My Daughters Parenting in Exile From Egypt: The Choices I Made for My Daughters

Even though I know what the dictatorship would do to me if I returned to Egypt, I am consumed with guilt for abandoning my family.

Mar 11, 2021 / Muhammad Kamal

Blood on the Tea Leaves: Kenyan Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever

Blood on the Tea Leaves: Kenyan Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever Blood on the Tea Leaves: Kenyan Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever

Tea pluckers say the household-goods giant failed to protect them from brutal and foreseeable attacks.

Jan 27, 2021 / Feature / Maria Hengeveld

Breakfast Table With Jewish Newsletters

Breakfast Table With Jewish Newsletters Breakfast Table With Jewish Newsletters

An argument with myself.

Jan 1, 2021 / Wallace Shawn

Paul Farmer on How We Tell the Story of a Pandemic

Paul Farmer on How We Tell the Story of a Pandemic Paul Farmer on How We Tell the Story of a Pandemic

A conversation with Dr. Farmer about his new book on the 2014 Ebola crisis, clinical nihilism, and public health’s failure of imagination.

Dec 23, 2020 / Q&A / Connor Goodwin

There Are More People Being Displaced Than Ever Before

There Are More People Being Displaced Than Ever Before There Are More People Being Displaced Than Ever Before

World War II displaced 60 million people. Today, climate change, conflicts and crises around the world have displaced nearly 80 million.

Nov 16, 2020 / Nick Turse

Cameroonian Asylum Seekers Say They Face Violent Persecution Upon Deportation

Cameroonian Asylum Seekers Say They Face Violent Persecution Upon Deportation Cameroonian Asylum Seekers Say They Face Violent Persecution Upon Deportation

Immigrant rights advocates allege that ICE detainees are being coerced, sometimes violently, into signing their own removal papers and returned to a country that is arresting and b...

Nov 9, 2020 / John Washington

A man stamps a ballot for Kenya's elections

Without Trust, Politics Is Reduced to Spectacle Without Trust, Politics Is Reduced to Spectacle

People must believe in public institutions in order to believe in the promises of democracy. Take a Kenyan’s word on this.

Aug 26, 2020 / Nanjala Nyabola

Covid-19 Has Put Algeria’s Peaceful Revolution on Hold

Covid-19 Has Put Algeria’s Peaceful Revolution on Hold Covid-19 Has Put Algeria’s Peaceful Revolution on Hold

The past year’s protests have been on a scale not seen in over three decades. But now, the streets are empty.

Jul 6, 2020 / Photo Essay / Abdo Shanan, The Nation, and Magnum Foundation

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