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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.
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.
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?
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.
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