The Compass

Who your daddy isn’t

  • February 17, 2026
  • Bryn Barnard

Reshaping national identity in Kuwait

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Ethiopia’s Omo Valley

  • February 13, 2026
  • Douglas Lyon

Looking back at visiting the Surma people for a television shoot

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The loud silence of Syria’s Christians

  • February 10, 2026
  • Rami Al Amine

They will have to choose to be subjects or citizens. Their choice may shape Syria’s future.

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Review: An Unforeseen Revolution

  • February 6, 2026
  • Paul A. Rahe

Scott Anderson gives an engaging but myopic account of the 1979 Iranian revolution.

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Susanna and the Americans

  • February 4, 2026
  • Robert Coalson

A painting evokes a new complicity.

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Lahaina

  • January 23, 2026
  • Maria Nazos

Poetry

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An ‘almost revolutionary’ moment for Iran

  • January 15, 2026
  • Robert Coalson

A conversation with Barry Rosen, former US diplomat and hostage in 1979-1981

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Kuwait: a model for a world without work?

  • January 6, 2026
  • Bryn Barnard

What AI may hold for all of us in the future

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Giving and receiving thanks at Peter Pan

  • January 2, 2026
  • Joshua Levkowitz

A Brooklyn institution serves donuts as they should be made.

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Art Deco mania spreads through Paris

  • December 23, 2025
  • Elizabeth Wise

The movement first swept the world a century ago.

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