From 2016 to 2020 Donald J. Trump served as forty-fifth president of the United States; now, he has secured his reelection ...

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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 ...

My grandmother was a good Catholic who didn’t go to college and had eight children. Her oldest child went to college and had one child, me. Your own family probably fits this pattern. In a decline ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Jake Johnston is a Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington D.C. He is the lead author for CEPR’s Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch blog and has ...

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Olivia Cheng is an MFA student in fiction at the University of Michigan. Previously, she worked in Silicon Valley managing engineering teams. “She stuffed spinach in her mouth until her teeth were a ...