Politics

International

Evil in the West Bank

As long as the daily horrors in the occupied territories continue and the extreme right remains in power, democracy in Israel will be sick at the core.

March 12, 2026 issue

Anjan Sundaram

‘We Think They’ll Kill Someone’

Indigenous communities in Mexico who oppose the construction of megaprojects on their lands do so at great risk.

March 12, 2026 issue

Tim Judah

A Bitter Winter in Ukraine

Four years after their full-scale invasion, the Russians are trying to freeze Ukraine into submission by relentlessly attacking the country’s energy grid.

March 12, 2026 issue

Jérôme Tubiana

Darfur’s Endless War

As paramilitaries tear through their already devastated province, self-defense fighters in North Darfur have taken up arms to defend their homes.

February 12, 2026 issue

Gordon F. Sander

Not for Sale

President Trump’s threats to seize Greenland have caused consternation and fear among Danes and Greenlanders alike.

December 4, 2025 issue

Amish Raj Mulmi

Nepal’s Republic of Amnesia

After overthrowing the government last fall, can Nepal’s youth movement address the inequities that have burdened the country since its founding?

January 17, 2026

Christopher de Bellaigue

Hype and Fraud in India

Narendra Modi is pursuing his vision of “developed India” through distorted claims of progress, stolen elections, and anti-Muslim policies.

January 15, 2026 issue

Joy Neumeyer

Poland: Halfway to Democracy

What do the far right’s fluctuating fortunes in Poland suggest about countries seeking an off-ramp from autocracy?

February 26, 2026 issue

Israel and Gaza

Sari Bashi

Gaza: The Threat of Partition

By putting the possibility of reconstruction out of reach for many Palestinians in Gaza, the current UN-endorsed “peace plan” may make it impossible for them to remain.

November 23, 2025

Sara Roy

What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?

The most influential plans for rebuilding Gaza start from the premise that Palestinians have no right to determine their future.

October 25, 2025

Joseph Kaplan Weinger

‘A Life That Is Not a Life’

My friend Awdah Hathaleen devoted himself to ending Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. His killing demonstrates just how little distance remains between settlers and the state.

September 5, 2025

Omer Bartov

‘Infinite License’

The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met.

April 24, 2025 issue

Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917–2008)

Conor Cruise O’Brien

A selection of Conor Cruise O’Brien’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Conor Cruise O’Brien

Biafra Revisited

May 22, 1969 issue

Conor Cruise O’Brien

Camus, Algeria, and “The Fall”

October 9, 1969 issue

Conor Cruise O’Brien

A New Ireland?

October 7, 1993 issue

The Latest

Bill McKibben

Syphoning Morale

The attack on the independence of Stars and Stripes is a window into Hegseth’s unaccountable military.

March 27, 2026

Anonymous

From the Rooftops of Tehran

We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.

March 27, 2026

a conversation with Osita Nwanevu and Suzanne Schneider

The Neocons’ Revenge?

Trump’s war has deepened the already-widening cracks in the MAGA coalition.

March 25, 2026

Adam Hanieh

Bottling the World Economy

Now that the Gulf states have become diversified industrial giants, blocking the Strait of Hormuz will have catastrophic effects on trade networks and food systems across the globe.

March 23, 2026

Neve Gordon

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