Photographs of war from the border of Turkey and Syria.
In a war that remains unfinished, two Syrian-British writers acknowledge and affirm those whose stories and lives may be lost in its course.
Farhad Mirza interviews Shahbaz Taseer about his experience as a captive between two battlefronts, and how his faith gave him the hope he needed to survive.
A writer accompanies her grandmother on a journey through sites of Holocaust remembrance.
For months, refugees caught in a "humanitarian logjam" near the Greek/Macedonian border lived in a makeshift tent city—until Greek officials cleared the area, replacing the fact of the camp with yet another layer of uncertainty.
Even as Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka gets back to normalcy after a deadly siege a month ago, Bangladesh wrestles with the rising specter of extremism.
The most important US air force base you’ve never heard of.
How Kurdish rights continue to flounder under an authoritarian Turkey and an imploding Syria.
A teenage girl refuses to give into the fear created by recent terrorist attacks in France.
The Future of Cities: In the aftermath of the most recent attacks in Paris, the writer considers a city wavering between gravity and light.
The Danish filmmaker discusses refugee children in Denmark, the safety of schools, and the quiet power of the observer.
Henry Peck interviews Fred Kaplan about the shadowy world of cyber war.
The journalist on reporting from a post-revolutionary Iran and tracing the rich ferment of its intellectual and social history.
The crudely staged terror-porn of Abu Ghraib has evolved into the highly stylized and sun-kissed wartime selfie
In the fight against extremism of all stripes, Europe has failed to transcend its capitalist roots and embrace diversity.
What happens to Africa’s child soldiers when the war is over?
Doctors at Bellevue run specialized relief programs for asylum seekers that are survivors of torture.
The Philippine cinema pioneer on why films are “the greatest mirror of humanity’s struggle.”
It seared their eyes. Squinting, they watched the light dilate, divide in six. The rocket fell away, limp, useless, and dark as a new star grew against the storm.
Boundaries are drawn, and erased, by disease rather than man-made warfare—but no one seems to have noticed.
Boundaries of Nations: The Nonviolent State of Iraq and Syria. The Republic-in-Motion of Lovers Not Fighters. The Government-in-Exile of People Who Just Want to Go to School.
Boundaries of Nations: The director on depicting the African migrant experience in Italy, moving in with his film’s lead, and the “common language” of pop music.
Boundaries of Nations: The author and activist on growing up under siege in Sarajevo and chronicling the childhood memories of other survivors.
Boundaries of Nations: In the borderlands of northern Mexico, a legacy of violence.
A house is partitioned along the lines, and in the chaos, of the new independent nations of India and Pakistan.
He led her away, down one tunnel, then another. He took her through a passage where the bones were piled so high they had to wriggle over them on their bellies.
Flash Fiction: I remember their voices. Hushed when the sun beat on our backs, loud when the moon returned, illuminating our darknesses.
This Columbus Day, a Caribbean carnival arts collective invokes the deeper principles behind Carnival masquerades to create social change.
The documentarian on white savior narratives, making enemies of gunrunners and governments, and nonfiction film as art.
The personal legacies of the many survivors of the atomic bombing of Japan.
Reflections on the legacy of a relief initiative strengthened through its own tragedy.
The Israeli author on the dramatic family histories that fuel his work and the broken promises of his homeland.
The journalist on the “strange, extractive” process of interviewing; second-, third-, and fourth-act stories; and coming to reporting as “a real, whole person.”
Part II, The Free Men of the Forest: The consequences of oil, development, and state intervention in an indigenous community.
Part I, Ordinary Justice: After a spate of killings in 2013, an indigenous community threatened by oil operations struggles to come to terms with their new reality.
On the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, the granddaughter of one of the scientists who made the bomb pays a visit to ground zero.
The foreign policy expert on global corruption, violent extremism, and how the West “has lost the balance between rectitude and liberty.”
How patriotism means never having to say you're sorry.
The New Yorker writer on the politics of surfing, reporting from war zones, and the “weird genre” of memoir.
A woman in white came up to us and said, “You’re welcome here. Everyone is welcome here.” She motioned us into the sanctuary, Carol included, who kept on with her act like a road-show vaudevillian.
Kashmir’s most infamous “fake encounter” leaves five families desperate for justice.
The Kurdish filmmaker on deploying a camera rather than a gun to fight for his community.
Flash Fiction:They came with their guns and their tools and no time to contemplate Time.
Vietnam and Iraq war veterans find closure only by returning to their war zones.
The scholar and peace activist on Palestinian centrism, living as an exile, and learning from both Fatah and Israeli soldiers on the road to radical compassion.
The Sri Lankan-American novelist on Sri Lanka’s brutal history and grappling with the right to tell the story of the country she left behind.
A visit to the 9/11 Museum that lasts much longer than visiting hours.
Four years after its revolution, what has changed for Tunisia, and for the rest of the world?
Boris Nemtsov had the courage to demand justice in Russia and to challenge Putin's regime; it cost him his life.
In Orania, South Africa’s last remaining white-only town, the country’s history of racial segregation and white supremacy lives on.
The documentarian and journalist on the nation’s portrayal in the global media, the power of emergency cinema, and the role of the intellectual in revolution.
Humanitarian efforts may alleviate the pain, but do they stop the political strife that leaves victims bleeding?
On violence against children after the Peshawar tragedy.
"I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror." —Alberto Gonzales
Twenty-two veterans commit suicide every day. In the graphic novel Walking Wounded, Olivier Morel and Maël set out to tell their stories.
Chelsea Haines talks with artist Jon Rubin about the surprisingly controversial politics of serving Palestinian food in Pittsburgh.
Is the US attacking ISIS to avoid looking the fool?
An Army sergeant reflects on his service in Iraq and how his family’s history with PTSD led him to sign up in the first place.
Dispatch from Gaza: Day-to-day life continues even in a war zone, but sleep does not.
Battling violence against women in a divided country.
Do Israel's military operations against Gaza constitute war crimes?
Erica Wright talks with a poet who didn’t set out to write about war.
The journalist on the rise of Israeli extremism.