Identity India and China draw a line in the snow The Asian giants are locked in a high altitude border dispute in the Himalayas with dangerous implications for global security feature Shougat Dasgupta
Narrative spin In Poland, a manufactured panic about ‘reds under the bed’ The governing Law and Justice party exploits memories of national trauma to keep a hold on power feature Amanda Coakley
Narrative spin The politics of teaching US history A university professor reflects on the uneasy task of showing students how the US national story is told and retold q&a Erica Hellerstein
Identity As Ukraine doubles down on its national identity, who is left behind? Ukraine's wartime rush to further distinguish itself from Russia has brought collateral damage on the country's Romanian ethnic community dispatch Amanda Coakley
Narrative spin Poland’s ruling party demands Germany pay reparations to score political points Poland is demanding WWII reparations from Germany ahead of its fall election. But most Poles want to look to the future instead feature Amanda Coakley
Identity The BJP is failing to stop ethnic riots in northeast India The mostly Christian tribes in the hills of Manipur say they can no longer live with the Hindu Meitei people in the valley feature Alishan Jafri
Identity Nigeria struggles to bridge ethnic divide after the election A new president will be sworn in on May 29, but Nigerians are still reeling from an election that weaponized tribal prejudice feature Daniel Adeyemi
Memory Australia searches for national identity in the trenches of WWI Australian memory culture offers a warning for the United States dispatch Alexander Wells
Identity India reopens its Khalistan wounds A manhunt for a hardline Sikh separatist has caused division in Punjab and angered the Sikh diaspora in the West feature Alishan Jafri
Identity A hotline to report teachers ratchets up tensions in US schools Teachers expressed confusion about the program and fears that they would be subject to investigations concerning 'inappropriate lessons' feature TJ L'Heureux
Identity Missouri librarians are risking jail time – for doing their jobs Librarians in Missouri fear prosecution under a new law criminalizing anyone who provides 'sexually explicit material' to students feature Erica Hellerstein
Identity In Istanbul, the last Uyghur bookshops struggle to survive Caught between a vindictive Chinese state and Turkish police, Uyghur booksellers try to preserve their language and culture feature Frankie Vetch
Identity Peru’s far right is reviving decades-old terrorism narratives to undermine protests The government has revived the practice of falsely accusing one’s political opponents of terrorism — harkening back to the days of the Shining Path guerilla insurgency feature Simeon Tegel
Memory The Indian migrants lured into forced labor on Mussolini's farmland Mussolini turned the Pontine Marshes into farmland to make Italy an agricultural powerhouse. Today, Indian migrants work the fields in conditions akin to forced labor feature Isobel Cockerell
Memory Afro-Colombian culture is under siege as armed conflict rages on Threats of violence have forced Colombia’s only African diaspora museum to close its doors feature Erica Hellerstein
