Josh White / 10 Jan 2023
The Gender-Capital Complex
Platforming Andrew Tate
Before his arrest, Andrew Tate was just another influencer with bad politics.(...)
Russia
Ari Paul / 23 Dec 2022
Taking Aim at Zelinskyy
America’s Antisemitic Right
The gloves are off. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Washington trip outed the Antisemitism of the pro-Putin right.(...)
Josh White / 05 Dec 2022
Soviet Collapse, National Decline
Russia 1985–1999, by Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis is a collagist who deals with ideas and their emotional impact.(...)
John Foster / 18 Nov 2022
The Forever War Comes Home
Ukraine and American Strategy
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues with no end in sight.(...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Sep 2022
The Week Before the Election
Photographing Italian Politics
Few Italian elections since the turn of the millennium have felt more like the twentieth century than this one.(...)
Zhenia Perutska / 16 Sep 2022
Resisting Russia
Learning Anti-Colonialism in Ukraine
In school, we’d always have two different classes for Ukrainian and foreign literature.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 06 Sep 2022
Life Under Gorbachev
The End of the USSR
When Mikhail Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR in 1985, I was studying Russian at university.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 15 Aug 2022
Universitet Lessons
Russia After the Arab Spring
In 2015, I moved to Moscow to spend a year teaching human rights. I lasted five months. As my former students from that time are arrested for protesting the Ukrainian war, here are some reflections on what I learned about the evil of Putin and the kindness of Russians.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 25 Jul 2022
Odesa Mama
Utopia by the Sea
The Russians have struck Odesa again, this time mere hours after reaching a deal with the Ukrainians. Though spared the worst of the war, an attack on Odesa is an attack on the best of Ukrainian and Russophone culture alike.(...)