Argument
Melinda Cooper
The billionaire patriarchs of the ascendant far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
Essay
David Velasco
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
Poetry
Haidar Al-Ghazali
Editorial
The Editors
The fundamental problem of the present is complicity
Reportage
Salar Abdoh
The Islamic Republic of Iran, fearing for its own survival, presides over a bloodbath
Fiction
Oksana Vasyakina
An excerpt from the novel Steppe
Argument
Lina Mounzer
Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans
Essay
Yi-Ling Liu
Kafe Hu was a pioneer in the underground scene that made Chengdu into China's hip-hop capital. But what happens when the counterculture blows up?
Memoir
Soyonbo Borjgin
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
Poetry
Michael Hofmann
Photo Essay
Sohrab Hura
Reportage
Daniel Trilling
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
Essay
Benjamin Moser
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
Translation
Zheng Xiaoqiong
For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution
Essay
Yevgenia Belorusets
Everyone wants Ukraine to be a nation of heroes – but no one wants to talk about the violence required to sustain armed resistance to Russia’s invasion
Artist Project
Nan Goldin with David Sherman
Scenes from the destruction of a people
Dispatch
Naghmeh Sohrabi
Messages from Iran
Conversation
Charlie Thomas
Britain’s High Court has ruled against the government’s ban of the direct action group
Memoir
Yuri Slezkine
What I learnt from the Soviet Adventure Library
Symposium
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran by Lina Mounzer, Aslı Bâli and Khosro Majd
Conversation
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
The Colombian novelist on Trump’s new doctrine and the long shadow of US aggression in Latin America
Memoir
Siddhartha Deb
A memoir of disenchantment
Editorial
The Editors
The adoration of force has become the West’s ruling passion
Argument
Amitav Ghosh
How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
Essay
Hisham Matar
What images of cruelty reveal about the limits of power
Memoir
Lilith Verstrynge
My decision to quit politics at 31
Essay
Naomi Klein
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
Translation
Liu Zichao
A Central Asian travelogue
Translation
Golan Haji
Growing up in the shadow of a burned cinema, a Kurdish poet in Syria learns to read the landscape for traces of a violent history
Argument
Ante Andabak
In the pages of a defunct satirical magazine, I learned to loathe the nationalism that raised me
Poetry
Aria Aber
Translation
Chandu Maheriya
What leather footwear reveals about discrimination against Dalits
Essay
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
A Cuban writer contemplates his new life in America, as Washington puts the island under siege once again
Argument
Séamus Malekafzali
The war on Iran and the Israelisation of America
Essay
Rahmane Idrissa
When the American Dream came to Africa
Conversation
Zhang Weiwei
How elites in Beijing view the collapse of American hegemony
Dispatch
Anonymous
A young Iranian weighs the protests in his country, and traces the line between hope and despair, in an essay delivered through a frail WhatsApp connection
Symposium
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran by Naghmeh Sohrabi, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj and Dominik Leusder
Translation
José Henrique Bortoluci
Devastation and resistance in Brazil’s most dangerous region
Essay
Nikhil Pal Singh
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
Argument
Adom Getachew
Why my Ethiopian relatives voted for Trump
Dispatch
Aziz Rana
A legal scholar’s diary of Trump’s return to power
Conversation
Arang Keshavarzian
A conversation about ‘the most intense protests’ since 1979, the prospect of American intervention, the surreal resurgence of Reza Pahlavi – and the future of Iranian society
Reportage
Osman Samiuddin
The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?
Dispatch
Sondos Sabra
In Gaza City, people are slowly returning, pitching their tents over the ashes of homes
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran
Reportage
Na Zhong
The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society
Symposium
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran by Maryam Tafakory, Sinan Antoon, Selim Koru and Rahmane Idrissa
