A Political and Literary Forum
A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.
William Callison, Quinn Slobodian
The award-winning documentary ‘Honeyland’ sets out to offer a timeless environmental parable, but in the process it also explores misconceptions about the region’s culture and history.
Daniel Petrick
With few restrictions and no tracing of the disease’s spread, the government is relying upon Swedish character and traditions to see it through the pandemic.
Adele Lebano
Germany's low death rate and quick payout of relief to workers makes a case for social democracy as preparedness.
Paul Hockenos
The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.
Holly Case
30 years after the Wall, the story of Berlin's anarchist utopia.
Far-right leaders often call for one nation united under one language. At the same time, they have always been good at using translation to spread their politics.
Yuliya Komska
Yugoslavia produced a thrilling variety of buildings—frequently departing from the prefabricated monotony of the Eastern Bloc.
Anthony Paletta
But it is increasingly difficult to question Israel’s policies without accusations of anti-Semitism.
David R. K. Adler
The pontiff still hasn't commented on Ireland's abortion referendum. That could all change when he visits the country in August.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The focus on Muslim anti-Semitism obscures the real quandary of multiculturalism in Angela Merkel’s Germany.
Carlos Fraenkel
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