Nigeria’s economy is in the hands of a UK judge A lawsuit seeking an $11 billion payout threatens Africa’s largest economy and raises questions about where responsibility for corruption in Nigeria lies feature Ope Adetayo and Frankie Vetch
Why Florida’s new university restrictions are ‘straight out of the global authoritarian playbook’ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul the state’s public university system. If enacted, it could become the most extreme set of higher education restrictions in the country q&a Erica Hellerstein
Russian performance art in the time of Putin What does exile mean for the artists who fled Russia? feature Nadia Beard
In Hungary, it’s Central Asia to the rescue Turanism, an emerging movement once banned under communism, aims to revive Hungarian nationalism with a grand theory of Turkishness feature Katia Patin
In the Khmer Rouge's last stronghold, myths from the Cambodian genocide still reign One group is trying to disrupt a narrative that has gripped an isolated community for decades. It claims that Vietnam engineered the worst evils of Cambodia’s genocide feature Fiona Kelliher
Belarusian leader writes Poles, Jews, other minorities out of WWII history in a bid for national unity In Lukashenko’s version of WWII, Belarusian victimhood is central, and Russia’s victory defines the modern Belarusian state and its relationships to its hostile neighbors. feature Michal Kranz
History, identity and politics clash in the pages of school textbooks In these five countries, like in many others around the world, governments are revising syllabuses to reflect ideological rather than educational priorities roundup Coda Staff
China wages war on ‘historical nihilism’ Alternative interpretations of history are treated by the CCP not as matters to debate but as threats to its power and control explainer Liam Scott
The Nazi concentration camps on British soil the UK government tried to forget The Channel Island of Alderney was the only piece of territory Hitler ever managed to occupy. Now, a fight is underway about what really happened there. feature Isobel Cockerell
Medieval history powers a crisis of identity in Lithuania and Belarus Lithuania and Belarus were once part of a single, sprawling state. Now each neighbor resents the other for staking a claim to a shared history feature Daiva Repečkaitė
Unsolved murders and unexamined atrocities threaten Northern Ireland’s precarious social peace Everybody in Northern Ireland lived with their own version of what happened during the Troubles. Then the British government tried to close the book on the conflict feature Caitlin Thompson
Poland's ministry of memory spins the Holocaust Poland's National Institute of Remembrance is at the center of the right-wing government's efforts to re-shape history feature Katia Patin
Invasion of Ukraine pushes Georgia to reexamine its fraught history with Moscow Russian involvement in Georgia’s 1990s wars in a breakaway region triggers a reassessment of buried trauma essay Natalia Antelava
Pro-Russian rallies sputter, but still rattle a nervous Germany Fringe groups in Germany spreading Kremlin narratives are failing to catch on, but they underscore how the country’s extremism is changing as ideological divisions blur feature Sally McGrane
The Russian May 9 holiday points to the toxicity of the country’s politics of memory Under Putin, the Second World War victory day commemoration has been shaped by a carefully choreographing of an invented tradition essay Robert Dale
