Archive - Compass

An ‘almost revolutionary’ moment for Iran

A conversation with Barry Rosen, former US diplomat and hostage in 1979-1981

7 hrs ago • Robert Coalson 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

Seeding spring in Prague

Jan 13 • Robert Coalson

Photos from a first trip to Asia in 2013.

Jan 9 • Steven Tagle

Kuwait: a model for a world without work?

What AI may hold for all of us in the future.

Jan 6 • Bryn Barnard

Giving and receiving thanks at Peter Pan

A Brooklyn institution serves donuts as they should be made.

Jan 2 • Joshua Levkowitz

December 2025

ICWA@100: Visiting Mahatma Gandhi in colonial India

Phillips Talbot spends time with the visionary leader and his community of disciples in 1941.

Dec 30, 2025 • Compass

ICWA@100: Out of Ethiopia

Smith Hempstone takes an adventurous road trip from Addis Ababa to Nairobi in 1957.

Dec 26, 2025 • Compass

Art Deco mania spreads through Paris

The movement first swept the world a century ago.

Dec 23, 2025 • Elizabeth Wise

ICWA@100: The Students of Prague

Barbara Bright Novovitch takes the pulse of young people in Czechoslovakia in 1969 following the Soviet invasion.

Dec 19, 2025 • Compass

End of US sanctions only a first step for new Syria

A conversation with Andrew Tabler

Dec 16, 2025 • Robert Coalson and Andrew Tabler

Nepal borders, flags and cables

Jennifer Katzka photography

Dec 12, 2025 • Jennifer Katzka

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