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...Kehinde Andrews Racism transcends borders and so too must the fight against it, argues Kehinde Andrews . Too often, analyses of race are hemmed in by “methodological nationalism,” or the tendency to frame our thinking around the nation-state. Instead, Andrews says, the African diaspora should unite...

...Maria Snegovaya Vladimir Putin's Russia meets the classical definition of fascist state, says Maria Snegovaya , except for one factor-the Kremlin can't yet unite the public around a clearly articulated nationalist ideology. This missing piece constrains the aggressiveness of the state. Without...

...Robbie Corey-Boulet "Either we hide who we are and are at peace with society, or we live publicly, and we are cut off," says Carmen, a 31-year-old from western Cameroon. Journalist Robbie Corey-Boulet writes that in Cameroon and Ivory Coast, gender roles restrict women's financial independence...

...Viet Thanh Nguyen World Policy Journal speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, who criticizes an “industry of memory” that creates and bolsters a single version of history. Hollywood, the Vietnamese-American author says, is a “very powerful propaganda ministry” that seduces...

...Lawyer Khaled Ali holds up historical documents, which he says proves the islands of Tiran and Sanafir are Egyptian, on June 22. SARAH EL SIRGANY ...

...Mai El-Sadany The Egyptian government has repeatedly violated the law with arbitrary arrests, torture in detention, and forced disappearances. But in the past, Egyptian legal expert Mai El-Sadany says, at least these measures could have been challenged in court. Today a person may be subjected...

...Sen. Leila de Lima Prison walls cannot prevent Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s fiercest foe from speaking out. From her cell, Sen. Leila de Lima calls the 71-year-old ruler a “geriatric dictator wannabe” involved in “mass serialized murder” and says history will vindicate her. Copyright ©...

...Nanjala Nyabola Kenya’s plan to build a coal-burning power plant on the doorstep of an historic island has sparked some of the country’s most intense environmental organizing in years, reports journalist Nanjala Nyabola. Activists say the plan, part of Kenya’s foreign-policy pivot to China, would...

... in a permanent status agreement by end of 2005. Needless to say, none of the parties lived up to their sides of the bargain, the Quartet authors included. Implementation was all but nonexistent and the timetable lapsed, but the Quartet has not given up completely and international declarations still pay homage...

... to the dollar. But her dealer gave her 11—the black market rate at the time—and kept a small fee for himself. That meant she got some 40 percent more pesos for her U.S. money. “When I see tourists take money out of the cash machine, I want to tackle them,” says Wanderer, 40, a Georgia-born journalist who’s...

... in horror as Rolonda was dragged away, screaming. No one tried to help. They forced Rolonda into an abandoned building and tied her up. At least a dozen men raped her that night, and every day after, for four days. “I can recognize 10 of the men who raped me,” she says. Sitting in an office at a small...

..., low-wage jobs more than a decade ago. Two women fix their eyes on their small children when they speak with a visitor outside a local health clinic for people living with HIV/AIDS. Even one and two years after their diagnoses, they say it’s difficult to accept their HIV-positive status. They’ve...

..., Russia is failing. While the total number of Russians who leave for good remains relatively small, the profile of the typical emigrant has changed. When the Soviet Union dissolved, the most common emigrant was a poor, unskilled young man. Today, it is a well-off professional, says Anton Nossik...

... position of having a neighbor with a great many problems—serious ones that would inevitably cross borders. “The Turkish government made misjudgments early on, first thinking that Assad could be persuaded to reform and then taking serious offense that he wouldn’t,” says Yezid Sayigh, a senior associate...

..., Uganda, Ukraine, and now Serbia. Matt Dippell, deputy director of NDI’s Latin America and Caribbean team and CPD liaison, says the number of requests for collaboration is only increasing. “We’ve seen a very diverse range of countries in the last five, 10 years—East Timor, Iraq, Serbia, Egypt, Mexico, all...

...Christopher Reeve © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute Photo: Christopher Reeve CARACAS, Venezuela—“This is the first time I feel like an emigrant,” says Evelyn, who calls herself a “free spirit,” and whose name has been changed out of fear of retaliation. She...