The Alaska Spectacle and the War on Memory Trump’s Alaska summit was more than diplomatic theater, it exposed how authoritarians weaponize our collective amnesia to reshape narratives and seize control perspective Natalia Antelava
Erasing August: How Russia Rewrites Georgia's Story On the anniversary of Russia's 2008 invasion of Georgia, an increasingly autocratic Georgian government toes the Kremlin line, blaming its predecessors for "instigating" war feature Masho Lomashvili
How to find your voice when you are being silenced Resisting authoritarianism is about remaining engaged, remaining receptive and, above all, not turning away perspective Luba Kassova
As Ukraine doubles down on its national identity, who is left behind? Ukraine's wartime rush to further distinguish itself from Russia has brought collateral damage on the country's Romanian ethnic community dispatch Amanda Coakley
How Democracies Die: The Script for a Three-Act Play In Trump’s America, the plot is starting to seem all too familiar explainer Natalia Antelava
The Shadow Puppet: A Russian's Warning about Trump The US president is not a Kremlin asset. But Americans beware, he and Vladimir Putin are different expressions of the same worldview perspective Andrey Babitskiy
How the West lost the war it thought it had won On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has reason to celebrate. He has scripted a new ending to the Cold War by exploiting the gap between Western democratic ideals and their practice perspective Natalia Antelava
Donald Trump’s imperial dreams Why the demand for minerals shows that the Ukraine war is about colonizers competing for resources explainer Natalia Antelava
To control the future, rewrite the past Why Elon and Alice want Germany to get over its “cult of shame” perspective Natalia Antelava
The myth and the hero: the writing and rewriting of Vietnam’s history The creation of heroes lies front and center of the identity and legitimacy of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party. How has that shaped the nation’s identity today? Thiện Việt
On brotherhood and blindness In a hospital in the heart of the British empire, two young patients from worlds away strike up a friendship essay Salar Abdoh
What makes a nation? Polish photographer Justyna Mielnikiewicz documents the people of Ukraine, Georgia and Kazakhstan as they hold on to their identity in the face of modern Russian imperialism photo essay Justyna Mielnikiewicz
The revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon Doctor, soldier, poet, ideologue, dismantler of myths and creator of myths. Frantz Fanon, whose book “The Wretched of the Earth” offered a powerful framework for anti-colonial struggle, was a man of many facets essay Adam Shatz
