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The 1850s were a turning point for globalization, from telegraphs to colonization.
A new series explores how reading works by global women of color is generative.
Despite the risks, Chinese social media users are beating online censorship.
In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.
Brexit is an episode in the long contest between rulers and the working class.
When your father is trans, memoir is both personal and political.
Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.
Dilma Rousseff's impeachment circumvented the democratic process.
Will victims of the war be served by the call for restorative justice?
Integration doesn’t guarantee equality or freedom.
States are stealing from orphans to pad their budgets. And it's legal.
The DOJ says it will stop using private prisons. The truth is more complicated.
For many EU citizens in the UK, the Brexit vote means the end of home as they know it.
Trump may have just been running off at the mouth, but policy experts agree he’s not entirely wrong about our dysfunctional relationship with NATO.
The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.
The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.
Many young children become obsessed with gender. How do we know which are trans?
The resolution of a tantalizing hint of new physics discovered last year.
The Olympics have long tried to obscure the political nature of sport.
On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.
Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.
The history of false alarms leading up to the final discovery.
Startups aren't the magic bullet for economic growth.
Government incentives may make us less moral, not more.
Local government can't fix our problems. Only big government can.
An inside look at the most powerful particle accelerator in the world.
After fourteen years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi may finally have a chance at freedom.
The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders.
Should we apply peer review to government?
Prosecutors are corrupting the intent of lynching laws.
The UN's World Humanitiarian Summit came up empty-handed.
The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.
Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.
Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.
Rapists should be held accountable. But is more incarceration the best way?
European analogies abound, but the GOP frontrunner is homegrown.
It is almost impossible to grasp how much Thomas Jefferson believed in progress.
Trump will have done real damage even if he doesn't win.
Egalitarianism requires not just redistribution but equal social standing.
With terrorism scares aplenty, how worried should one be?
Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.
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