Could a Hindu Extremist Become India’s Next Prime Minister? Could a Hindu Extremist Become India’s Next Prime Minister?
Narendra Modi’s role in the horrific 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat has never been properly investigated, but now a timely new study is raising the right questions.
May 13, 2014 / Zahir Janmohamed
The Dark Side of the Ukraine Revolt The Dark Side of the Ukraine Revolt
Ukraine’s ultra-right-wing Svoboda party is no fringe organization.
Mar 6, 2014 / Conn Hallinan and Foreign Policy In Focus
It’s Our Act of Killing, Too It’s Our Act of Killing, Too
The brilliant Oscar-nominated film The Act of Killing depicts the horrifying mass murder in Indonesia in the 1960s—but the US was no mere observer.
Feb 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Brad Simpson
The Sochi Games Are Being Held on the Land of Genocide The Sochi Games Are Being Held on the Land of Genocide
“Sochi is the land of Circassians. They can’t hide this anymore.”
Feb 17, 2014 / Dave Zirin
Are Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Youth Programs Paving the Way for Future Unrest? Are Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Youth Programs Paving the Way for Future Unrest?
Many participants say they peddle militaristic values and obedience to the state.
Jan 24, 2014 / Hilary Matfess and Foreign Policy In Focus
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eight Decades of Hannah Arendt and Her Critics This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eight Decades of Hannah Arendt and Her Critics
Arendt's life and work have been debated in our pages possibly more than those of any other twentieth-century philosopher.
Nov 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Guatemala’s Genocide on Trial Guatemala’s Genocide on Trial
The Constitutional Court may have vacated Efraín Ríos Montt’s conviction, but the struggle for justice will continue. And nothing can annul the survivors’...
May 22, 2013 / Kate Doyle
Is There a Chechen Connection to the Boston Bombings? Is There a Chechen Connection to the Boston Bombings?
It appears the Tsarnaev brothers were self-motivated. But their Salafist extremism was itself one outgrowth of the brutal Chechen wars of independence against Russia.
Apr 24, 2013 / Thomas Goltz
Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam
A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.
Mar 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Holly Case
Putting Stories Into the World Putting Stories Into the World
Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.
Jan 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman