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Different People

After fleeing war-ravaged Kharkiv, many have found refuge and hospitality in Poltava. How does it feel to be an internally displaced person in one’s own city of birth?

September 12, 2022 • by Andrei Krasniashchikh

The displaced can be recognized by their backpacks and the plastic bags they’re carrying, filled with humanitarian aid. Also, by their rapid pace. The displaced move fast: from explosion to explosion. ...

Europe & Central Asia

Part 2: My Convictions

Revelations of the War in Ukraine: An anti-war activist’s personal and political reckoning

September 12, 2022 • by James Carroll

Having faulted American policies myself—emphatically so from Clinton forward, when I took on that role of Boston Globe op-ed pundit—I nevertheless refused now to place blame for Putin’s war on America’s drive to protect, in the left-wing argot, its “global hegemony.”...

Europe & Central Asia

Part 1: A Just War?

Revelations of the War in Ukraine: An anti-war activist’s personal and political reckoning

September 7, 2022 • by James Carroll

In nations bracketing the North Atlantic a great sigh of relief could almost be heard: how great to be free once more to demonize Moscow....

Europe & Central Asia

Dialogues on War

PEN Ukraine conversations

August 10, 2022 • by Francis Fukuyama and Valerii Pekar

An agreement brokered between Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the UN permits cargo ships to transport grain from Black Sea ports again. But assurance of mine-free safe passage is a way off. And behind the negotiations are manouver that reflect long-term political, economic and societal implications....

Democracy

Donald Trump Must Face Federal Charges

A look back at the Weimar Republic should teach us a lesson about bringing insurrectionists to justice

July 19, 2022 • by Claudia Koonz

Before writing off the theatrics of the GOP as a mere sideshow, we should pause to remember how Adolf Hitler snatched victory from a catastrophic attempted putsch in 1923. ...

Europe & Central Asia

Making Sense of the War

As the shock of war gives way to reflection, Ukrainian public discourse has turned to questions of the past, present and future

July 6, 2022 • by Tatiana Zhurzhenko

In Ukraine, the initial shock, anger, and sorrow have slowly given way to the sober realization that the war is not going to end soon. The first month passed like one day, but meanwhile, the feeling of time has returned. People and institutions are adjusting and even trying to make ...

Europe & Central Asia

Liberalism Needs Nationalism

A young person reflects on the war in Ukraine—and her generation’s yearnings

June 21, 2022 • by Sophie Boulter

In our yearning moment, nationalism can fill liberalism’s void—a void left by valueless chaos and unfulfilling choices. It is time to follow Ukraine’s lead and forge a civic nationalism that inspires everyone to find their stake, their anchor, within the sea of globalization. ...

Middle East & North Africa

Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder

Author Jason Pack presents Libya as a case study for global disorder

June 15, 2022 • by Sabina Henneberg

Pack uses the conflict in Libya as a microcosm for understanding global disorder, but asserts that the conflicts in Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, and eastern Ukraine could provide additional examples for his general argument....

Capitalism

Capitalism Is Trumping Democracy at Home

During the Cold War, American leaders came to treat democracy and capitalism as if they were interchangeable

May 27, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

All day, I have been coming back to this: How have we arrived at a place where 90% of Americans want to protect our children from gun violence, and yet those who are supposed to represent us in government are unable, or unwilling, to do so? This is a central problem ...

Democracy

“I’ve had enough”

When are we going to do something?

May 25, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Today, a gunman murdered at least 19 children and 2 adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. For years now, after one massacre or another, I have written some version of the same article, explaining that the nation’s current gun free-for-all is not traditional but, rather, is a symptom of ...

Europe & Central Asia

Crimean Tatars Are Still Waiting for Justice

80 years of displacement and suppression

May 18, 2022 • by Mariia Shynkarenko

This year, May 18 commemorates 78 years since almost 200,000 Crimean Tatars were torn from their beds in the middle of the night and forced into cattle wagons. The Crimean Tartars, a Sunni Muslim Turkic ethnic group, have lived in Crimea since the Middle Ages. In 1944, accused by Joseph ...

Crimean Tatars Are Still Waiting for Justice

Europe & Central Asia

The Powers and Limits of Hospitality: Lublin, Poland

The struggle of a culture of hospitality against various forms of exclusion

May 17, 2022 • by Tomasz Kitlinski

This text is thus a tribute to the struggle of a culture of hospitality against various forms of exclusion and to the people who have participated in it, now and in the past. Socially and culturally, the case of Lublin, with its many traditions and many contradictory policies, shows how ...