List of Civil Society articles
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A mural depicting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s first supreme leader after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, is pictured as women walk along Enghelab Square in central Tehran on Sept. 10. Why Did Last Year’s Protest Movement in Iran Fail?
The supreme leader learned what not to do from the Shah.
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Philanthropist George Soros delivers a speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 24, 2019. Why Soros Is Retreating From Europe
His foundation’s recalibration to the global south reflects the failure of democracy promotion on the continent.
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Protesters denounce the arrest of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan outside the Lahore High Court. Imran Khan Is Just the Beginning of Pakistan’s Democratic Woes
The country’s democratic backsliding goes further than the embattled former prime minister—and further back.
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People walk in the distance atop cracked soil in a dried-up irrigation canal through a wheat field in Iraqi Kurdistan's Rania district. The Cradle of Civilization Is Drying Up
Climate change endangers the Tigris and Euphrates—but it’s not the only reason the rivers are vanishing.
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Lebanese deminers with the Mines Advisory Group, a nongovernmental organization, work in a field in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, on April 13, 2021. Lebanon Is Still Littered With Land Mines
Sappers are working to clear the land of a deadly past.
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A woman walks at the Poklonnaya Hill war memorial near the main building of Moscow State University in Moscow. Russia’s War Comes for Academia
Severed ties between U.S. and Russian scholars are straining the field to a breaking point.
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Farm workers walk through a field searching for mines and explosives near the village of Myrolyubivka in Ukraine's Kherson region on April 18. Ukraine’s Farmland Is a Literal Minefield
With their livelihoods threatened and the state stretched thin, agricultural workers are taking demining into their own hands.
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Indian people walk by a colorful building in the Portuguese colonial style in Goa, India. Portugal Left a Mark on India
They got food, fado, and sossegado. Also, the Inquisition.
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A timber monastery overlooks the valley as clouds envelop the Chornohora range in the village of Dzembronya near Bystrets, Ukraine. On the Homefront, Families Mourn Ukrainian Fighters
Behind closed doors in western Ukraine, the devastating impact of the distant war becomes clear.
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French police and members of the black bloc clash during a protest against pension reform in Toulouse, France. Liberty, Equality, Police Brutality
French cops have gotten more heavy-handed than anywhere else in Europe.
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Georgian opposition supporters rally calling for the government to follow a pro-Western path, outside the parliament in Tbilisi on March 9. Georgia’s Protesters Won the Battle but Not the War
The government backed down, much to Russia’s chagrin, but it could reintroduce a reviled law.
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Iraqi children walk along a damaged road on their way back from school in Mosul, Iraq Iraq Must Not Squander Another Opportunity to Rebuild
The war’s legacy is 20 years of broken hopes and dreams. This government must do better.
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Exiled Nicaraguans hold a protest vigil against the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in San Jose, Costa Rica, on April 19, 2022. With Russian Support, Nicaragua Smothers Dissent
Managua’s crackdown on free expression is entering a new phase.
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A protester is sprayed by a water cannon while taunting Georgian riot police during clashes near the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi. Georgians Lean West—and Into the Water Cannons
Tbilisi looks to crack down, Moscow-style, on NGOs and free expression.
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Australian Greens Sen. Lidia Thorpe speaks to a crowd. Australians Can’t Agree on the Voice
Most of the country wants the government to do more for Indigenous Australians. So why is a proposal to achieve that so fraught?
