“This week, when we mark the International Day of the Endangered Lawyer on 24 January, the Russian government continues reprisals against lawyers for carrying out their professional duties, such as ...

Murder in the Gulag is John Sweeney’s hard-hitting and accessible account of Putin’s murderous regime and his dispatch of the opposition politician and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, who ...

On a hill above Altadena named Little Round Top, a grave stood for 136 years as the community below it blossomed. Here lay the remains of Owen Brown, son of the legendary abolitionist John Brown.

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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The release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners as laid out in the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal had been in doubt after crowds in southern Gaza surrounded hostages who were being freed. The ...

The death of Alexei Navalny in February 2024 ended what was, for many in the West, the last hope of possible reform within Putin’s Russia. Dissidents have a long and tragic role in Russian history ...

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The COP is the supreme decision-making body of the Convention. All States that are Parties to the Convention are represented at the COP, at which they review the implementation of the Convention and ...