Human Rights

To Break the Siege

By sailing to Gaza, activists in the flotilla movement have long tried to pressure their own governments to honor international law. 

May 31, 2026

The Education of Pope Leo XIV

As a young missionary in Peru, the pope witnessed a war on liberation theology—and was indelibly stamped by the movement’s commitment to the poor.

May 24, 2026

After El-Fasher

In North Darfur’s displacement camps, people look for what might help them go on living, or escape once again.

May 3, 2026

‘Go Out and Sue a Polluter’

For a brief period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Texas was home to a working-class, populist environmental movement. What might its legacy be today?

April 13, 2026

The Emirates on the Tightrope

For decades the UAE pursued vast ambitions for a regional maritime empire, at great human cost. Now many of those schemes have been thrown into crisis. 

April 10, 2026

Timid Europe

For the past month European leaders have lent tacit and sometimes open support to the US and Israel’s war in Iran—with one notable exception.

March 31, 2026

The Gaza Doctrine

Over the course of two years, Israeli forces systematically destroyed the Gaza Strip’s health system. Their attacks in Iran and Lebanon follow a disturbingly similar pattern.

March 22, 2026

Elegy for Rafah

For the tens of thousands of Gazans who need to leave the Strip but want the chance to come back home, life revolves around the Rafah crossing.

March 20, 2026

Lebanon’s Negations

Tenuous modus vivendis have always defined the Lebanese state. Israel’s war will merely create a new one—at the cost of great destruction and death.

March 18, 2026

Longing for My Tehran

On the Israeli news, I watch as the country whose citizenship I hold devastates the one where I was born.

March 14, 2026