Recent events in the South Caucasus show how the authoritarian playbook is exported and adapted to suit local contexts. From ...

Why journalism that refuses to simplify, refuses to look away from messy, contradictory realities remains essential to ...

When I lived in Bishkek 25 years ago, then-president Askar Akayev was so effusive in expressing his desire for Kyrgyzstan to ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

Years of sanctions have substantially weakened the Iranian economy, as evidenced by Iran’s keenness to have them cancelled, ...

In 2017, the London Review of Books published a commentary from an anonymous young woman with a prolonged illness that had seriously impaired her ability to care for herself. The situation was ...

In most of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge fell in 1979 when Vietnamese troops toppled the regime. The Vietnamese occupied most of the country throughout the 1980s, hailed by some as liberators and others ...

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe with Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the Sir John Monash Centre on opening day. Photo by Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images. The Prince of Wales at the ...

For a retired federal employee, Tom Homan, an acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Trump administration, is a very busy man. For the last year, he’s crisscrossed the ...

Besmir Billa playing a traditional Albanian instrument, called the cifteli, in Kukes. All the while, there is a parallel reality playing out far from home, one that the people of Kukes see in glimpses ...

In a recent email Parker sent in response to questions for this article, he told me that, so far, fewer than 100 people had taken the Lightning Process course for long Covid. “The anecdotal results ...