“Israel’s Crimes of the Century,” Suzy Hansen (Turkey, 2007-2009), New York Magazine, June 16, 2025 […]
Introducing Compass

A new journal about global cultures and developments from the Institute of Current World Affairs. […]
‘This is not the end of moral universalism’

A conversation with Michael Ignatieff. […]
ICWA@100: South Korea votes for democracy

Steven Butler on the country’s pivotal 1985 elections. […]
Review: Opposing authoritarianism

Benjamin Nathans’s history of the Soviet dissident movement has important lessons for today. […]
On originality

Challenges facing new music. […]
Macron should call Trump’s bluff

When it comes to defense, Europe has the means to stick it to Washington. […]
Is Trumpism exportable to Europe? Czechia may be a test case

The billionaire populist Andrej Babiš is running for his old job as prime minister. […]
Kafka’s The Trial: 1925-2025

A century after the novel’s publication, its portrait of arbitrary justice is increasingly relevant.
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Letter from the Sri Lankan killing fields

Some 100,000 lives were lost in the civil war, but justice remains elusive.
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