What it means to be Palestinian
Leading writers reflect on the war in Gaza and the prospect of peace.
War
What a surgeon saw in Gaza
In this harrowing interview, a US doctor describes his recent experiences working in a Gazan hospital, where he treated children…
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Israel’s two-front war
The presumption of inevitable war can be self-fulfilling.
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What the West gets wrong about the war in Ukraine
If Kyiv’s allies had identified Putin’s invasion as an act of colonisation, they might have won more support from the…
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Virginia Woolf’s politics of peace
Published between the wars, Woolf’s essay Three Guineas still has lessons for today’s conflict-ravaged world.
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The silent stones of Europe’s wars
Eighty years after D-Day, how should Britain remember those who died?
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Gaza and the new digital divide
A widening generation gap is polarising online news audiences – and coverage of the Israel-Hamas war has made the rift…
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Russia’s victory-less Victory Day
Vladimir Putin’s forces are in the ascendancy – but there is still no end to the war in sight.
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Whatever happened to the language of peace?
Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.
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Goya’s lessons for a world at war
Why the great Spanish painter’s work still resonates so urgently.
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The age of danger
Order is breaking down as the great powers take sides in multiple wars.
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Ukraine is Europe’s problem now
Germany expects a long war of attrition in Ukraine. That is a war Putin is likely to win.
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The new age of global threats
For decades, the West enjoyed the fruits of the post-Cold War “peace dividend”. This era is now definitively over.
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Israel and Iran’s deadly game
They bet that direct attacks would not lead to a disastrous escalation. The Middle East is now on the brink.
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Why Iran’s attack on Israel failed
The drone and missile strike conveyed as much weakness as it did strength.
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The Israel-Iran endgame
What the West doesn’t get about the Iranian regime.
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Natalia Ponomarchuk: “War has its sounds. I recognise them wherever they appear”
The Ukrainian conductor on fleeing Kyiv, Mendelssohn and why “war shows the true faces of people”.
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Dune: Part Two depicts a world of ceaseless struggle – like our own
Resource scarcity, neo-feudalism, perpetual conflict: Denis Villeneuve’s film is not a fantasy but an epiphany of the present.
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War and the West Bank
Settler violence in the occupied territory is intensifying, and Palestinian deaths are mounting.
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The West is revealing its hand to Putin
Emmanuel Macron’s threats to send ground troops to Ukraine only exposes Europe’s deepening divisions over the war.
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