Current History is a leading magazine of global affairs that documents, contextualizes, debates, and bears witness to the social, political, and economic shifts shaping our world. Published every other month, Current History is a space for fresh, courageous thinking in the form of essays, reviews, exchanges, and art.
Begun as a supplement to the New York Times in 1914, Current History has published a thrillingly diverse range of writers, world leaders, and scholars, from W. E. B. Du Bois, Susan Strange, and George Bernard Shaw, to Sheila Jasanoff, Anirudh Krishna, Joseph Stiglitz, Francis Fukuyama, Javier Auyero, and Mlada Bukovansky, among others.
IGCC assumed editorial management of Current History in 2026.
Begun as a supplement to the New York Times in 1914, Current History has published a thrillingly diverse range of writers, world leaders, and scholars, from W. E. B. Du Bois, Susan Strange, and George Bernard Shaw, to Sheila Jasanoff, Anirudh Krishna, Joseph Stiglitz, Francis Fukuyama, Javier Auyero, and Mlada Bukovansky, among others.
IGCC assumed editorial management of Current History in 2026.
Table of Contents
July 2026
| Introduction |
How Did We Get Here? Lindsay Shingler |
| Collection |
To Create a New World Order, Look to History Amitav Acharya The Liberal Order is Dying—A New Order Must be Born Charles A. Kupchan Africa in the Shifting Global Order Folashadé Soulé |
| Dispatches |
Mathilde Fasting in Oslo Daniel Núñez in Guatemala City Haroon Bhorat in Cape Town Evelyn Goh in Sydney Vasilii Kashin in Moscow Sonika Gupta in Chennai Esteban F. Klor in Jerusalem |
| Features |
The Problem with—and Hope for—American Democracy Christian Davenport The Treacherous Road Out of Autocracy Laura Gamboa Through the Nuclear Looking Glass Mike Albertson Winter in America Denise Sullivan How We Survive the Machine Stephanie Dinkins In Search of a Usable Past Brian Matthew Jordan How Shall We Look at Each Other Then? Lindsay Shingler |
| Interview |
On Climate Denial and Free Market Fundamentalism Naomi Oreskes |
| Book Reviews |
Ukraine, Russia, and a War of Identity Jesse Driscoll and Dominque Arel Reviews In Brief Stephan Haggard |
Editors
Lindsay Shingler
Editor
Stephan Haggard
Senior Editor