For our final episode, we sat down without a guest to ask ourselves the questions we usually put to others.

For our final episode, we sat down without a guest to ask ourselves the questions we usually put to others.

Following widespread criticism, NATO said it took the decisions "based on the host nation's assesments" and were in contact with Turkish authorities on the issue.

As we explore the various forms of authoritarianism around the world these days, it can feel like there’s no end in sight.

As we explore the various forms of authoritarianism around the world these days, it can feel like there’s no end in sight.

A podcast co-hosted by Ekin Yaşin and Burcu Baykurt. Click to read It All Happened Before, a Substack publication.

Everyday activism, diaspora memory, and what South Africa can tell us about the long game

Everyday activism, diaspora memory, and what South Africa can tell us about the long game

When we talk about resistance, we tend to picture it: marchers in the street, dissidents with megaphones, confrontation made visible.

When we talk about resistance, we tend to picture it: marchers in the street, dissidents with megaphones, confrontation made visible.

This is a website collecting and sorting data center policy

The DIGS Lab at the University of Virginia reviewed more than 700 federal, state, and local policies related to data centers, writes Dr. Lauren E. Bridges.

On Hansen, Hochschild, and the Limits of Understanding Authoritarianism

Suzy Hansen's first book, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, is one of the books we kept returning to in the conversations that eventually became this podcast.

Suzy Hansen's first book, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, is one of the books we kept returning to in the conversations that eventually became this podcast.

Outsourcing giant VFS Global has made huge profits by exploiting people around the world whose ‘weak’ passports require them to apply for visas to travel

Suzy Hansen's first book, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, is one of the books we kept returning to in the conversations that eventually became this podcast.

A Judicial Coup Against Turkey's Main Opposition Party

A Judicial Coup Against Turkey's Main Opposition Party

The Democratic Party is trying to figure out what will work — and the competing forces within it are doing so loudly.

When mainstream media gets captured, the story doesn't end — it migrates.

When mainstream media gets captured, the story doesn't end — it migrates.

Ankara BAM 36. Hukuk Dairesi, CHP kurultay davasında Özel ile parti yönetiminin tedbiren görevden uzaklaştırılmalarına, Kılıçdaroğlu ile yönetiminin görevi devralmasına karar verdi.

In March 2025, masked federal agents arrested a Turkish PhD student on a Somerville sidewalk as she walked to break her Ramadan fast.