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What the concert hall attack means for the Russian leader's future.
On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.
Polish director Agnieszka Holland's new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.
Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.
The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.
Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.
Sovereign states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order. History shows how new they are—and how we can think beyond them.
Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.
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