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The American Origins of Israel’s Armament Campaign
How Kahanism infiltrated the political mainstream.
What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About South Africa
The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.
The Kurdish Ulysses
Kawa Nemir’s translation is an archive of the language, which has been suppressed by Turkey's nationalist politics.
Media Mogul on a Mission
Mathias Döpfner’s new memoir The Trade Trap is part policy manifesto, part declamation of political beliefs.
The Woman Behind Borges
María Kodama’s fierce loyalty transformed the legacy of Argentina’s most-cherished author.
Sins of the Salmon Kings
Every day, he releases one salmon from the pens into the sea, which gives him “an intoxicating feeling of control over life and death.”
Undoing the Alhambra Decree
Is Spain’s citizenship program for Sephardic Jews the best way to right past wrongs?
Karachi 2060
The road to the city of the future: evictions, demolitions and land reclamation.
The Law of the Sea
Down in the deep, the legal distinction between land and sea no longer holds.
What Happened at Wassenaar?
As calls for reparations gain momentum, public attention has turned back to the 1952 German-Israeli Holocaust negotiations.
Party at Das Literaturhaus
A culture diary through the German literary scene, where markets don’t exist (except where they do), and everything is in crisis (except the books themselves).