Joyce Carol Oates: «I write about people»
BIOGRAPHY: An unprecedented access to the prolific American writer’s solitude.
United States
A lifetime prison hidden in the center of the free world
HUMAN RIGHTS: The struggles of 2.5 million people growing up in a country that does not recognize them as its own.
Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad
AFRICA: In Norway, interest in the Sahel region is increasing. With Gaddafi’s fall in 2011, the strength and number of rebel groups in the region increased. After the start of the global war on terror in 2001, more and more countries have become interested in this vast area. But aren’t the Islamists primarily fighting against the West?
For those who want to understand this crisis
Why do we resort to bombs and guns?
CONFLICT: Christopher Blattman’s long-term project explores the reasons why conflict between groups and nations erupts into war.
The adaptive autocrats
AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton’s fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese’s mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.
Where 97 percent of the population lives on the threshold of starvation
AFGHANISTAN: Zarifa Ghafari is on the BBC’s list of the world’s 100 most influential women. This Afghan mayor knows very well that she is a symbol – but perhaps most of all an attraction.
The man who infiltrated a military government
JOURNALISM: The fascinating story of Elías Barahona, who infiltrated the military government in Guatemala’s darkest days of civil war.
The spiral of unrest and power
LAW ENFORCEMENT: In a collage of archival tapes, delve into the stormy era of the 1960s in the United States with a detailed investigation of the period’s incidents and their public reception through the lens of police militarization.
The war – and the crowd
EDITORIAL: As MODERN TIMES REVIEW editor, I publish a selection of articles that may reflect different opinions most people (the crowd) have about the war in Ukraine.
In the direction of the totalitarian
PRE-FASCISM: Written for society «between Hitler and Stalin», Timothy Snyder’s book lies between patriotic obedience and political disobedience.