Tag: Editors’ Picks

The 1850s were a turning point for globalization, from telegraphs to colonization.

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.

Undocumented immigrants face horrible conditions in U.S. detention, with little legal recourse.

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.

America continues to be haunted by our need to grieve.

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.

War is almost always a choice, a madness we go along with.

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.

Radical gay liberation laid the ground for the moderate legal gains of gay rights.

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.