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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....

Activism

The Grassroots Fight for Legal Abortion Has Always Been Bipartisan

The cross-party effort in Kansas has a long precedent begun in the 1960s by New York Republican Constance E. Cook

August 29, 2022 • by Bonnie Eissner

New York became the second state to legalize abortion (the first was Hawai’i), and the only state that lacked a residency requirement. Within two years over 200,000 women poured into the state for safe, legal abortions. And by setting a standard of 24 weeks, New York’s law influenced the ruling ...

The Grassroots Fight for Legal Abortion Has Always Been Bipartisan

Politics

Nikolas Cruz and Death Penalty Mitigation

Why the Parkland High School shooter tells a bigger story about the path to becoming a murderer

August 26, 2022 • by Janet Golden

People who needed help—intervention, services, resources, did not get it. Systems meant to aid them failed, or could not do so, because of underfunding and bureaucratic eligibility rules that excluded them....

Nikolas Cruz and Death Penalty Mitigation

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....

Politics

Run on Abortion

Kansas is a sign: If Democrats champion winning issues, Democrats will win

August 5, 2022 • by Jill Filipovic

Abortion bans are moral disasters. The result of these bans shocks the conscience of any decent person. That’s part of why we saw Kansas go the way it did. It’s also why Democrats need to run on abortion rights....

Politics

The United States Is Not A Christian Nation—And Should Not Be Remade Into One

Recent SCOTUS rulings not only threaten religious minorities, they contradict the intentions of the Founders

July 27, 2022 • by Arlene Stein and Phil Zuckerman

Recent SCOTUS rulings not only threaten religious minorities, they contradict the intentions of the Founders...

The United States Is Not A Christian Nation—And Should Not Be Remade Into One

Politics

Why Political Campaigns Are Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones

A new book, Producing Politics, exposes the hollow and self-serving logic of campaign insiders from across the spectrum

July 27, 2022 • by Micah L. Sifry

A new book, Producing Politics, exposes the hollow and self-serving logic of campaign insiders from across the spectrum....

Why Political Campaigns Are Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones

Politics

Are Republicans Sobering Up?

Trump’s star appears to be dimming, and there are more clouds on the horizon

July 26, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Trump’s star appears to be dimming, and there are more clouds on the horizon...

Politics

Congressman Lee Zeldin’s No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day

But being attacked on the campaign trail might be the best thing that has happened to the Republican candidate for Governor of New York lately

July 26, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Being attacked on the campaign trail might be the best thing that has happened to the Republican candidate for Governor of New York lately...

Congressman Lee Zeldin’s No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day

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. ...

Politics

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?

Part 2: My Convictions

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

Part 1: A Just War?

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

The Grassroots Fight for Legal Abortion Has Always Been Bipartisan

The cross-party effort in Kansas has a long precedent begun in the 1960s by New York Republican Constance E. Cook

Nikolas Cruz and Death Penalty Mitigation

Why the Parkland High School shooter tells a bigger story about the path to becoming a murderer

Dialogues on War

PEN Ukraine conversations

Run on Abortion

Kansas is a sign: If Democrats champion winning issues, Democrats will win

The United States Is Not A Christian Nation—And Should Not Be Remade Into One

Recent SCOTUS rulings not only threaten religious minorities, they contradict the intentions of the Founders

Why Political Campaigns Are Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones

A new book, Producing Politics, exposes the hollow and self-serving logic of campaign insiders from across the spectrum

Are Republicans Sobering Up?

Trump’s star appears to be dimming, and there are more clouds on the horizon

Congressman Lee Zeldin’s No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day

But being attacked on the campaign trail might be the best thing that has happened to the Republican candidate for Governor of New York lately

Donald Trump Must Face Federal Charges

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

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