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After fifteen years in power, the Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, resigned and fled the country on August 5, chased out by young protesters. What started as a movement against quotas for civil-service employment evolved...

Benjamin Netanyahu is back in command of Israeli politics. He and his coalition are now polling close to where they were before the war began. They don’t yet hold a majority, but they are positioned...

Global media have cast a spotlight on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Rightly so: the suffering of Gazans is unbearable. But in doing so, it has missed another crucial part of the story: the impact the...

Review of Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic by Nabila Ramdani (Hurst Books, 2023) The recent opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics was quintessentially French. A comic drag performance had a vaudeville character,...

Writer-director Eli Roth’s handling of Borderlands is so atrocious it should be studied in film schools to teach aspiring filmmakers what not to do. It’s astounding how Roth (Death Wish, Cabin Fever, Hostel) manages to...

In 1987, worried that “too many children and people” had begun looking to society and hence to the government to solve their problems — e.g., “I am homeless, the Government must house me” — Margaret...

Richard J. Evans In 2003–2008, I published a major three-volume narrative history of Nazi Germany. The more I have thought about it in the years since then, however, the more I began to realize I...

At the Taşucu port I see the Cyprus boat coming toward the mainland, the island less than eighty kilometers away, and the gas beneath this seabed only a footnote in that whole story. I stayed...

The coming weeks will be pivotal in determining whether the current regional war in the Middle East will increase in intensity. Israel has agreed to resume cease-fire negotiations on August 15, just over two weeks...

In late June, US authorities sentenced Honduras’s former president Juan Orlando Hernández to forty-five years in prison, on a series of drug and weapons-conspiracy charges. US prosecutors deemed the lawyer and businessman-turned-politician the leader of...

Despite the California sun in the summer of 1933, sixty-six-year-old Francis E. Townsend’s mood was gloomy. He had just lost his job working as a physician for the Long Beach Health Department. Although the work...

Peter Cole Every port is different, and some ports are more powerful than others. But in San Francisco, which again was the heart of this union and port industry on the Pacific coast, Harry Bridges...