Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, survivors and perpetrators live side by side.
By: Clint Smith
The Atlantic
A memorial tainted with Lost Cause mythology has at last been purged from the national cemetery. If only national memory were so easily resolved.
By: Clint Smith
The Atlantic
The captain of the U.S. soccer team is the latest in a long line of sports stars who have had to wrestle with a complex legacy on the world stage.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, November 29, 2022
Holiday-season play makes this World Cup a family affair.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, November 22, 2022
America still can’t figure out how to memorialize the sins of our history. What can we learn from Germany?
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, December 2022
In this episode of Radio Atlantic, the staff writer Clint Smith talks about the complicated feelings he has for soccer, and which teams and players shaped his love of the sport.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, November 19, 2022
When I watch the World Cup, I’m celebrating not what this country is, but what it can be.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, November 18, 2022
I cannot hear that word, used in that way, without thinking about violence.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, October 22, 2022
I spent last week mourning those murdered in Buffalo. I will spend this week mourning children murdered at school.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, May 25, 2022
The nation won its first-ever Africa Cup of Nations, giving Senegalese people the world over something to celebrate.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, March, 2022
What a photographer found when he trained his camera on his own family.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, March, 2022
In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, February 2, 2022
The poet Amanda Gorman discusses her new collection, Call Us What We Carry, and how the last year has brought new urgency to her writing.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, December 16, 2021
The number is so enormous that we risk becoming numb to its implications.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, December 14, 2021
I don’t know how long the power will be out in New Orleans. But I know more storms are coming.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, September 3, 2021
States make millions off phone-call fees from incarcerated people, but the cost can be even higher for their families.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, July 29, 2021
The squad has transformed culturally since the last time the English were champions. I’m rooting for the future it represents.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, July 9, 2021
This year’s tournament has been unlike any I’ve ever witnessed, a reminder that when soccer fans enter a stadium, it becomes a church.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, July 2, 2021
Where some people see a place to exchange vows, all I see is the enslavement of my ancestors. Do they not know the history, or do they simply not care?
By Clint Smith
Buzzfeed News, June 7, 2021