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November 19, 2015
Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed
Gandhi’s Unequal Justice in South Africa
The young lawyer fought the British empire for the rights of Indians, but not those of the Zulus he lived among.
September 26, 2015
David Tobia
Trevor Noah Didn't Come From Nowhere
How being everyone and no one defines the new Daily Show host’s comedy
June 24, 2015
Jeet Heer
Dylann Roof's Defense of White Rule in Africa Has Roots in American Conservatism
September 24, 2014
Geoff Dyer
Can You Tell From This Photo If Oscar Pistorius Is Guilty?
July 14, 2014
Nadine Gordimer
Politics and Fiction
Morals are the husband and wife of literature
June 26, 2014
Anna Hiatt
The Rise and Fall of Apartheid in Pictures
An exhibition in South Africa is attracting record-breaking crowds
June 19, 2014
Eve Fairbanks
"I Have Sinned Against the Lord and Against You! Will You Forgive Me?"
A former apartheid leader is seeking redemption—by washing the feet of those he wronged
June 8, 2014
Maya Jasanoff
Gandhi Was a Crank Before He Was a Saint
His morally nuanced early years in South Africa
April 28, 2014
Marc Tracy
Kerry Says Israel Is Headed Toward "Apartheid." Is He Right?
April 17, 2014
Eve Fairbanks
Oscar Pistorius' Paranoia
To understand his defense, you need to understand South Africa
March 28, 2014
Eve Fairbanks
Sending a Bunch of Fulbright Scholars Overseas Is Not 'Soft Diplomacy.'
But there are better reasons not to axe the program
December 12, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Yes, Even Nelson Mandela Could Say Dumb Things
December 11, 2013
Jennifer Kirby
Protocol Experts Explain How Obama Could Have Handled the Castro Handshake
It's hard to snub without looking graceless
December 10, 2013
Alice Robb
The Game Theory Behind Mandela's Negotiations to End Apartheid
December 9, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Conservatives Haven't Wrestled With Mandela's Legacy Because They Haven't Wrestled With the Cold War
December 9, 2013
Eve Fairbanks
The Dark Spot of Nelson Mandela's Legacy
Is he responsible for South Africa's leadership crisis?
December 9, 2013
Ariel Dorfman
When Mandela Became Real to Me
December 6, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
All of These Famous People Visited Nelson Mandela's Tiny Prison Cell
December 6, 2013
Eve Fairbanks
The Scene Outside Nelson Mandela's Home was Not that Dramatic—Because His Country Has Become a Normal One
December 6, 2013
Jordan Michael Smith
All the Terrible Things Republicans Used to Say About Nelson Mandela
Reaganites called him a terrorist and a phony

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