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To Be Born in Beit Jala

From Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014–2020, which was published in November by Seagull Books. Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger. I was born into the Christian households…

Death Valley

by Hari Kunzru,

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was asleep in my room at the Beverly Laurel Motor Hotel near West Hollywood. I’d just come to the end of a…

Valley of Unrest

by Sonia Faleiro,

India’s unending occupation of Kashmir

Bright Stars

by Laila Lalami,

The unfulfilled promise of American citizenship

The Great Divide

by Maddy Crowell,

Traveling by rail through India’s disputed north

Shaking with Fear

From a verbal report given by Harold Howard to Kurt Castaldo, a deputy in the sheriff’s office in Palm Beach County, Florida, in December 2015. Howard alleged that Yousef Muslet…

Occupied Territory

by Rebecca Solnit,

One morning, as I walked on the quiet, mostly wooded King Mountain trail above San Francisco Bay, a dog not much smaller than I and possessed of much sharper teeth…

The Reichstag Fire Next Time

by Masha Gessen,

The coming crackdown

Confirmation B.S.

From a quiz drafted by the police department of Long Beach, California, and used as part of a training presentation. The quiz was cited in a report by the A.C.L.U.…

The Immunity Doctrine

by Julia Harte,

Can officials be held liable for the suffering they inflict?

Echt Deutsch

by Yascha Mounk,

How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity