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When I was in my teens, my grandmother took me to the industrial town of Luton, an hour’s drive north of London, to meet a relative who used to be both a private detective and a con man. Once, in his younger years, this relative had decided to try making...

Yasmine El Rashidi has been contributing to The New York Review since January 26, 2011, the day after mass protests engulfed Egypt, when we published the first of her gripping dispatches from Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Over the following days she reported...

Future historians may single out 2021 as the year the tide turned for the Palestinian struggle—though it was hard to see coming. The final months of 2020 were among the bleakest in decades, as a US administration bent on furthering Israel’s right-wing...

When Myles Allen first proposed suing fossil fuel companies in 2003, the outlook for climate action in the political sphere was bleak. The United States, responsible for a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, still had no major carbon regulations...