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Tag: Editors’ Picks

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

Matthew Karp

A new series explores how reading works by global women of color is generative.

Rafia Zakaria

Despite the risks, Chinese social media users are beating online censorship.

Yue Hou, Diana Fu, Greg Distelhorst

In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.

Tariq Mir

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

Colin Dayan

Brexit is an episode in the long contest between rulers and the working class.

Jo Guldi

When your father is trans, memoir is both personal and political.

Judith Levine

Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.

Claude S. Fischer

Dilma Rousseff's impeachment circumvented the democratic process.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

America continues to be haunted by our need to grieve.

Ingrid Norton

Will victims of the war be served by the call for restorative justice?

Lauren Carasik

Integration doesn’t guarantee equality or freedom.

Garrett Felber

States are stealing from orphans to pad their budgets. And it's legal.

Erik Loomis

The DOJ says it will stop using private prisons. The truth is more complicated.

Christopher Petrella

For many EU citizens in the UK, the Brexit vote means the end of home as they know it.

Andrea Mammone

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.

Simon Waxman

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

Robin D. G. Kelley

The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

Lauren Carasik

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

Oded Na’aman

Many young children become obsessed with gender. How do we know which are trans?

Anne Fausto-Sterling

The resolution of a tantalizing hint of new physics discovered last year.

Matthew Buckley
Radical gay liberation laid the ground for the moderate legal gains of gay rights.
Michael Bronski

The Olympics have long tried to obscure the political nature of sport.

Robert L. Kehoe III

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

Colin Dayan

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