History

Interpreting the past to serve political agendas

Dresden doesn’t know how to mourn its past

Every year on February 13, Dresden turns into a chaotic public laboratory for memory culture

Alexander Wells

Mexican expats are trumpeting the ruling party's message and getting out the vote

Political ‘affinity groups’ aligned with Mexico’s ruling party are amplifying the voices of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and helping them exercise their voting rights

Vita Dadoo

The war in Ukraine triggered a reckoning in universities

Professors have been debating how to teach imperialism and colonialism in Russia and the wider region since the invasion

Nigeria’s economy is in the hands of a UK judge

A lawsuit seeking an $11 billion payout threatens Africa’s largest economy and raises questions about where responsibility for corruption in Nigeria lies

Ope Adetayo and Frankie Vetch

Why Florida’s new university restrictions are ‘straight out of the global authoritarian playbook’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul the state’s public university system. If enacted, it could become the most extreme set of higher education restrictions in the country

Erica Hellerstein

Russian performance art in the time of Putin

What does exile mean for the artists who fled Russia?

When India's right wing comes for interfaith marriage

‘Love jihad,’ a right-wing conspiracy theory, is putting the lives of Muslim-Hindu couples at risk

America’s culture warriors are going after librarians

Librarians across the country are under threat as efforts to ban books about marginalized groups reach a fever pitch

Erica Hellerstein

In Hungary, it’s Central Asia to the rescue

Turanism, an emerging movement once banned under communism, aims to revive Hungarian nationalism with a grand theory of Turkishness

When globalization was king and home was elsewhere

India was my external identity, Britain my interior one, and Kuwait was a metaphorical suburban bedroom where my fantasies played out.

Shougat Dasgupta

Grieving California

Stepping out from charred homes and streets, Californians fight for a state of mind that will survive a future of endless fires

Erica Hellerstein

In the Khmer Rouge's last stronghold, myths from the Cambodian genocide still reign

One group is trying to disrupt a narrative that has gripped an isolated community for decades. It claims that Vietnam engineered the worst evils of Cambodia’s genocide

Belarusian leader writes Poles, Jews, other minorities out of WWII history in a bid for national unity

In Lukashenko’s version of WWII, Belarusian victimhood is central, and Russia’s victory defines the modern Belarusian state and its relationships to its hostile neighbors.

Ethnic violence, fear and alienation in Xinjiang

Before Uyghur writer Perhat Tursun was sentenced to 16 years in prison, he wrote a modernist masterpiece about life in China’s Muslim heartland

Bradley Jardine

History, identity and politics clash in the pages of school textbooks

In these five countries, like in many others around the world, governments are revising syllabuses to reflect ideological rather than educational priorities

Coda Staff

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