Belarusian exiles are running out of hope Three years after a brutal crackdown sent exiles into neighboring countries with a wellspring of energy for changing the regime, their mood has soured feature Amanda Coakley
The Kremlin revises a textbook to dictate future understanding of Russian history A level of political interference in education not seen since it was part of the Soviet Union suggests that the Kremlin believes its own propaganda feature Katia Patin
Echoing its battles in Florida, Disney circles a Turkish maelstrom Pulling a TV show about Ataturk from Disney+ unleashes a backlash in Turkey feature Frankie Vetch
Vatican’s influence falters in Ukraine and across the region The Vatican’s failed attempts to mediate for peace underscores a retreat from a larger European focus brief Amanda Coakley
India is rewriting textbooks to appease Hindu nationalists Academic Suhas Palsikar wanted his name to be removed from textbooks he helped author after a series of controversial edits q&a Alishan Jafri
In Poland, a manufactured panic about ‘reds under the bed’ The governing Law and Justice party exploits memories of national trauma to keep a hold on power feature Amanda Coakley
The politics of teaching US history A university professor reflects on the uneasy task of showing students how the US national story is told and retold q&a Erica Hellerstein
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
Poland’s ruling party demands Germany pay reparations to score political points Poland is demanding WWII reparations from Germany ahead of its fall election. But most Poles want to look to the future instead feature Amanda Coakley
Australia searches for national identity in the trenches of WWI Australian memory culture offers a warning for the United States dispatch Alexander Wells
India reopens its Khalistan wounds A manhunt for a hardline Sikh separatist has caused division in Punjab and angered the Sikh diaspora in the West feature Alishan Jafri
In Istanbul, the last Uyghur bookshops struggle to survive Caught between a vindictive Chinese state and Turkish police, Uyghur booksellers try to preserve their language and culture feature Frankie Vetch
Peru’s far right is reviving decades-old terrorism narratives to undermine protests The government has revived the practice of falsely accusing one’s political opponents of terrorism — harkening back to the days of the Shining Path guerilla insurgency feature Simeon Tegel
The Indian migrants lured into forced labor on Mussolini's farmland Mussolini turned the Pontine Marshes into farmland to make Italy an agricultural powerhouse. Today, Indian migrants work the fields in conditions akin to forced labor feature Isobel Cockerell
Afro-Colombian culture is under siege as armed conflict rages on Threats of violence have forced Colombia’s only African diaspora museum to close its doors feature Erica Hellerstein