Dispatches

Austria’s far right collapses

  • October 16, 2020
  • Emily Schultheis

Reeling from scandal and struggling during the pandemic, the FPÖ suffers catastrophic losses in Vienna elections.

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After another rape and murder, Indians ask if anything’s changed

  • October 9, 2020
  • Astha Rajvanshi

Attitudes toward caste and gender are perpetuating a sense of impunity.

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Forced from Budapest, Central European
University opens in Vienna to a pandemic

  • October 5, 2020
  • Emily Schultheis

Classes are back in session after a major showdown with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, but Covid-19 is posing another challenge to the institution’s ideals.

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In western Germany, a struggling city
seeks to move beyond stereotypes

  • September 29, 2020
  • Emily Schultheis

An icon of former coal country suffers high unemployment, low incomes and a bad image. It’s also misunderstood.

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Saudi Arabia’s imagined worlds

  • September 21, 2020
  • David Kenner

Fiction has enabled authors to advance daring critiques of the kingdom’s social and political order.

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In India, another step away from secularism

  • September 4, 2020
  • Astha Rajvanshi

Construction of a Hindu temple provides Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist BJP a ‘mission accomplished’ moment.

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The end of the clumsy autocrat?

  • August 28, 2020
  • Dan Peleschuk

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko learned the hard way that rigging an election may be passé. ICWA's managing editor asks if others will heed his example.

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Hitler’s birthplace exposes tensions in Austria

  • August 27, 2020
  • Emily Schultheis

There’s no easy solution for the yellow house in the town of Braunau.

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Walking the Wall

  • August 11, 2020
  • Emily Schultheis

A Berlin photo essay.

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India’s Muslim activists face trial by fire

  • August 11, 2020
  • Astha Rajvanshi

As the Hindu nationalist government cracks down, student organizers are fighting back.

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