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Nelson Mandela
April 16, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
What?! Alina Habba Compares Trump to Nelson Mandela
Habba said the former president was exercising his First Amendment right by potentially violating his hush-money gag order.
April 12, 2021
Alexander Zaitchik
How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.
January 9, 2019
MagazineEve Fairbanks
After South Africa’s Trump
An energized resistance movement brought down Jacob Zuma, the postapartheid demagogue. But was democracy saved?
July 17, 2018
Kaila Philo
Obama: “rabid nationalism” and racist ideology lead to civil war.
April 5, 2018
Eve Fairbanks
The Scapegoating of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
On the strange afterlife of a figure who embodied post-apartheid South Africa’s contradictions and failings
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
December 5, 2013
John Carlin
Mandela Unbound: Imagining the South African Future
March 12, 1990
December 5, 2013
Eve Fairbanks
Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
October 11, 2013
Hedley Twidle
Infinite Delay: The Last Days of Nelson Mandela
July 18, 2013
Eve Fairbanks
Nelson Mandela's Less Attractive Legacy
How will history judge the world's favorite saint?
October 13, 2011
Timothy Noah
About Those Protests
June 27, 2011
Kate Coleman
Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt: The Untold Story of the Black Panther Leader, Dead At 63

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