Last month, I both concluded my time at +972 and headed back to the United States. As my 10 months of editing, reporting, and writing came to an end, I thought constantly about how I would answer the inevitable “How was it?” questions from friends and family. I've always struggled with them — the classic but oddly paralyzing ritual of reunion. And this time, the question felt heavier. I returned carrying the moral responsibility and political urgency of conveying the atrocities I know (…)

À partir d'entretiens menés auprès de soixante Ukrainiens en âge de conscription ayant fui à l'étranger, cette étude examine comment ces hommes négocient leur départ face aux normes genrées de la citoyenneté en temps de guerre. Loin des récits binaires de pacifisme ou de lâcheté, l'autrice montre une ambivalence morale marquée par la classe sociale, les responsabilités de soin et la peur, où le refus de combattre se vit à la fois comme résistance à une mobilisation perçue comme injuste et (…)

Thirty years after 1968, Czechoslovak dissident and Charter 77 signatory Petr Uhl challenges both official narratives of the Prague Spring now circulating in the Czech Republic: dismissal of the whole period as factional manoeuvring within the Communist Party, and a nostalgic account crediting the Party leadership with genuinely leading the country towards democracy. Uhl argues instead that a five-year liberalisation begun in 1963 was overtaken by self-organising students, trade unionists (…)