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Caught Between Empires: On the Fate of the Amur Tiger

Caught Between Empires: On the Fate of the Amur Tiger

“For 170 years, tiger numbers have fallen and risen on both sides of the border as feelings toward these creatures have evolved...”

By Jonathan C. Slaght | November 14, 2025

Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress

Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress

Eve Dunbar Considers the Creative, Professional and Manual Labor of Black Women in America

By Eve Dunbar | November 13, 2025

On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power

On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power

The Soviet Union General Secretary’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign, Initial Allies, and Rock-Star Beginnings

By Mikhail Zygar | November 12, 2025

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

“What glowed at me with such potency that I would willingly immerse myself for all the months of writing slog?”

By Emma Darwin | November 12, 2025

What Does It Mean to be Human? (According to Philosopher Alexandre Kojève)

What Does It Mean to be Human? (According to Philosopher Alexandre Kojève)

Boris Groys on the Nothingness of Human Existence

By Boris Groys | November 11, 2025

The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza

The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza

“The average young Gazan measures his age by how many of those wars we survived.”

By Muhammad Shehada | November 10, 2025

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A Brief History of American Socialism

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Michael Kazin on the Socialism’s Far-Reaching Influence on American Thought

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Michael McFaul on the Challenges Facing the Liberal International Order From Outside and From Within

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The Succession Crisis of Queen Elizabeth I

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Tracy Borman on the Altered Manuscript Depicting the Naming of Queen Elizabeth’s Heir

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How Two Nuns and a Jesuit Might Persuade You to Finally Download that Dating App

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Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita on the “Close Friendship” Between 16th-Century Nun Sor Juana Inés and Vicereine María Luisa

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