Identity When India's right wing comes for interfaith marriage ‘Love jihad,’ a right-wing conspiracy theory, is putting the lives of Muslim-Hindu couples at risk feature Zenaira Bakhsh
Identity America’s culture warriors are going after librarians Librarians across the country are under threat as efforts to ban books about marginalized groups reach a fever pitch feature Erica Hellerstein
Identity 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
Identity When globalization was king and home was elsewhere India was my external identity, Britain my interior one, and Kuwait was a metaphorical suburban bedroom where my fantasies played out. feature Shougat Dasgupta
Memory Grieving California Stepping out from charred homes and streets, Californians fight for a state of mind that will survive a future of endless fires feature Erica Hellerstein
Memory 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
Memory 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
Identity Ethnic violence, fear and alienation in Xinjiang Before Uyghur writer Perhat Tursun was sentenced to 16 years in prison, he wrote a modernist masterpiece about life in China’s Muslim heartland review Bradley Jardine
Amnesia 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
Narrative Spin 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
Amnesia 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
Identity 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
Memory 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
Memory 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
Memory 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
