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Four months after the revolt that overthrew the government of Nepal, Kathmandu seems calm. The new interim government has officially recognized the protests, led by Gen-Z activists, as the third “people’s movement” in the country’s history. Renovations have started on some of the buildings torched this past September, although the parliament remains a charred shell. […]


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After Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin was ousted from power in 1979, his regime left behind mountains of paperwork generated by the state bureaucracy. Years later, the historian Derek Peterson painstakingly assembled it into an archive. As Helen Epstein writes in our January 15, 2026, issue, “crucial documents were buried under layers of old bicycles, junked […]


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María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has been calling for a foreign—read: US-led—military intervention in her country for years. Since at least 2019 she has insisted that using outside force to overthrow the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, was the only way to restore democracy to Venezuela. […]


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Dead Ringers

The first time I saw a sculpture by Tatiana Trouvé, in an uncommonly dim gallery at a museum in Mougins, in southern France, I assumed that I had found three blankets stacked tidily on a chair, supporting a book. The piece was called The Guardian. It was, I would later learn, one of a series by […]


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The Gray Tick

In July 1987 the Hajj ceremony in Mecca turned into a bloodbath. Shia pilgrims, mostly Iranians, staged a protest, chanting against America, Israel, and Saddam Hussein. Saudi security forces confronted them. Violence erupted. Nearly four hundred people were killed. I was seven years old. My favorite uncle happened to be among the pilgrims that year. […]


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