A historian of the Soviet Union locates a rich and complicated Black experience Slavic Studies scholar Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon tracks Soviet anti-racism to today q&a Glenn Kates
An anti-Soviet protest in Kazakhstan haunts the country's current unrest A deadly 1986 street protest in Almaty precipitated the Soviet collapse. Suddenly talk of the "December Demonstration" is all over social media, despite decades of officially enforced forgetting. Historians, sociologists and journalists weigh in on the importance of reckoning with the past to interpret the present explainer Alexandra Tyan and Caitlin Thompson
The Capitol insurrection in the classroom We talked to social studies experts on how students should learn about January 6th q&a Mariam Kiparoidze
Fury and grief for Spaniards in fight to remove Franco's murdered victims from the Valley of the Fallen Relatives are denied dignity for the human remains of Franco's victims feature Isobel Cockerell
Kashmir’s vanishing newspaper archives In a long-troubled region of India, articles critical of the national government are being erased from the websites of local news outlets. Journalists believe that pressure from New Delhi is to blame dispatch Aakash Hassan
Letter from Germany: A strange and enduring love affair with the antebellum South Tucked away in a leafy area of Berlin, the Uncle Tom’s Cabin subway station may look like the last vestige of a national obsession with the darkest period of American history, but these ideas live on in other ways essay Erica Hellerstein
Memory in the age of impunity There were once ‘grand narratives’ that explained everything from the behavior of states to literature. The collapse of connected storylines calls for new thinking on what binds us, from Manila to Silicon Valley to Moscow essay Peter Pomerantsev
Refugee crossings and anti-immigrant sentiment spark a historical reckoning in an English seaside town Folkestone has become a frontline for the far-right — but some residents are fighting back by recalling its long tradition of welcoming refugees feature Isobel Cockerell
Mexican newsrooms fire opening salvo in fight against political disinformation Disinformation flooded Mexico’s 2018 presidential election. As the country’s midterms loom, journalists are teaming up to weed out fake news brief Erica Hellerstein
Irish anti-lockdown activists plan 'Easter Rising' protests Online coronavirus conspiracy theories are spreading as a result of pandemic fatigue brief Isobel Cockerell
Capitol insurrection captured, and then erased on social media Now that every aspect of life is uploaded to the internet, tech companies get to choose which parts of the past are fit to preserve feature Isobel Cockerell
Drawing borders on a map leads to charges of treason A 30-year-old tug of war over a sliver of territory has led to a flood of disinformation ahead of a fiercely contested parliamentary vote in Georgia dispatch Giorgi Lomsadze
Hindu nationalists rewrite history in India's classrooms Revisions to school textbooks and curriculums reinforce Hindu nationalist perspectives dispatch Gautama Mehta
Pop stars, sex and communism: the story behind an East German youth magazine Run by the state, Neues Leben sought to inspire a new generation of socialists dispatch Josephine Hüetlin
