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Terry Allen’s "Cross the Razor"
How one artist started a conversation across the US-Mexico border
Brendan Greaves
Facing America’s Social Crisis
The United States is at a turning point in economic policy. What happens next is crucial.
Nicholas Mulder
The Moment
Why Han Kang’s Nobel Matters
My mother’s generation experienced unspeakable violence. Han found the words for it.
Yung In Chae
A Lost Future for the Middle East
Religious pluralism was a possibility after the Ottoman Empire. European colonialism changed that.
Ussama Makdisi
How the Radical Right Remade Nationalism
What happens when the central goal of politics becomes preserving national identity?
Suzanne Schneider
Overlapping ethnic demographics and inverse power relations across a border often draw neighboring states into domestic conflict, and Ukraine and Russia have proved no exception.
Andreas Wimmer History Is Repeating Itself in Ukraine
The Yale Review’s Political Archive
What six historical pieces reveal about American democracy today
James Surowiecki
National Book Award Finalists
Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors
What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge
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