The second Trump administration’s escalating and violent crackdown is intended to redefine who is allowed to be in the United States.

Bolivia has long struggled to balance the demands of the global drug control regime, which bans coca cultivation and consumption, with the plant’s deep cultural and economic importance at home. This article traces coca governance from US-backed eradication campaigns to former President Evo Morales’s “coca yes, cocaine no” policy, showing how the Chapare coca unions evolved from targets of repression into powerful political actors. Community-based coca control reduced violence and improved rural livelihoods, but now faces pressure from growing organized crime, diminished international support, and shifting domestic politics. The Bolivian case reveals both the limits of prohibition and the fragile promise of alternative approaches to governing drug crops.

In two years, the world went from peak foreign aid spending to contemplating a future without aid. Tracing how this happened requires understanding why donors give aid, how aid critics have challenged these rationales, and how international norms have shaped spending trends over the past decade. With a cottage industry of initiatives now rethinking the future of aid and development cooperation, it is no longer radical to be talking about a post-aid future. For better or worse, the contours of a post-aid world are already emerging.

When the Soumoud Convoy to Gaza was stopped outside the Libyan city of Sirte in June 2025, it offered a particularly visible example of what the division of Libya has looked like for ordinary people since 2014. The territorial bifurcation of the Libyan state has forced people to move, while also limiting their options for work and even their ability to form relationships and families. In many such ways, the militarization that Libya has undergone since 2011—a process deeply entangled in global contests for power and money—has encroached into everyone’s everyday life.

The long shadow of 2020’s protests against a rigged election continues to shape Belarus’s political, social, and cultural landscape. The country has undergone a profound reconfiguration of state-society relations, and the ruptures exposed by the protests were further deepened by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Though the regime suppressed the protests and reasserted control, the events of 2020 triggered a deep societal transformation marked by new forms of civic subjectivity, political consciousness, and diasporic mobilization. This article examines the regime’s repressive turn and memory politics, the impact of politically driven migration, the rise of a transnational Belarusian identity, and the role of digital infrastructures in sustaining civic networks beyond the state’s reach.

A new biography of iconic anti-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon emphasizes how his psychiatric practice informed his radical politics, and vice versa.

Excerpted from an essay in the June 1960 issue of Current History.

Cricket, a colonial import, has swamped other sports in terms of popularity in India and across South Asia. Today, given the large number of people who live in the region, it is the world’s second most-watched sport after soccer. Due to this widespread appeal, cricket has become a huge commercial enterprise that not only enriches players and corporate sponsors, but also is mired in politics. In the decades since independence, the sport has occasionally acted as a bridge between traditional enemies India and Pakistan, though even that tenuous bond has frayed in recent years.

How entrenched has Viktor Orbán’s rule become in Hungary after a decade and a half? How might domestic and international political shifts, especially Donald Trump’s second administration, impact the country’s trajectory? To answer those questions, this essay outlines the foreign policy strategy the Orbán regime has pursued and assesses its chances of success; discusses the recent emergence of a charismatic opposition leader and what that unexpected development may reveal about the domestic political situation; and considers the possibility and pitfalls of a liberal democratic restoration, including what building democracy back better would entail.

Global demand for lithium and copper is rising, fueled by the renewable energy transition. Chile is the top producer of copper and the second-largest producer of lithium in the world. It is also recognized as the most water-stressed country in the Americas. Socio-environmental conflicts around water, more visible over the past several decades, are intensifying. While some view water primarily as a productive resource that will enable Chile to keep growing its economy, civil society groups are calling for environmental justice and arguing that local communities also deserve to benefit from the renewable energy transition rather than becoming green sacrifice zones.