On David Malouf, nationality, and the sticky subject of labels. By Nam Le.

Valorizing an ex-CIA director and bashing Trump obscures what is truly ominous. By Stephen F. Cohen.

The corporate media and the rest of the Resistance had been flogging this event for months. By C.J. Hopkins.

On facts, fallacies, and power. By Kristian Williams.

Russiagate may have been aimed at Trump to start, but it’s become a way of targeting all dissent. By Matt Taibbi.

A new national security communications unit has echoes of the past, when the government tried to weaponise information, with mixed results. By Dan Lomas.

The European Union is engaged in a two-front fight for its own survival. By George Friedman.

The Histoire mondiale opens the door to that most alluring of prospects: a genuinely universal republican vision of Frenchness. By Sudhir Hazareesingh.

How did a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer find a home in one of the twentieth century's most influential liberal salons? By Tom Arnold-Forster.

Japan deployed thousands of kamikaze pilots in WW2, but what does their legacy mean for youth now? By Mariko Oi.

China has passed legislation to punish anyone who disrespects the national anthem with up to three years in prison, state media reported Saturday. The changes to China's criminal law were approved during a committee meeting of the country's rubberstamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), according to the official Xinhua news agency. "Serious cases of disrespecting the country's national anthem in public would get punishments including deprivation of political rights, criminal detention, and imprisonment of up to three years," it said.

This gargantuan shrine to democracy has never felt so surreal. By Sam Anderson.

A Supreme Court ruling in India has led to arrests and vigilante attacks on cinemagoers. By Soutik Biswas.