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Two poems
"February Sail" and "[Dozens of snails]"
Feb 20 • Susan Brind Morrow
Who your daddy isn’t
Reshaping national identity in Kuwait
Feb 17 • Bryn Barnard
Ethiopia’s Omo Valley
Looking back at visiting the Surma people for a television shoot.
Feb 13 • Douglas E. Lyon
The loud silence of Syria’s Christians
They will have to choose to be subjects or citizens. Their choice may shape Syria’s future.
Feb 10 • Rami Al Amin
Review: An Unforeseen Revolution
Scott Anderson gives an engaging but myopic account of the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Feb 6 • Paul Rahe
Susanna and the Americans
A painting evokes a new complicity.
Feb 3 • Postcards From The Decline

January 2026

Thailand
Photos from a first trip to Asia in 2013.
Jan 30 • Steven Tagle
Dateline Moscow: The Cuban missile crisis
Reporting from the Soviet capital about seven days that changed the world
Jan 27 • Kalb, Marvin
Lahaina
A poem by Maria Nazos
Jan 23 • Maria Nazos
An ‘almost revolutionary’ moment for Iran
A conversation with Barry Rosen, former US diplomat and hostage in 1979-1981
Jan 15 • Postcards From The Decline and Barry Rosen
EU strikes back at US and China on trade
The European Commission’s new South American trade agreement comes more than two decades after negotiations began.
Jan 14 • Marco Zatterin
Hope under ice
Seeding spring in Prague
Jan 13 • Postcards From The Decline
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