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Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need.
The vast hinterlands of the Global South’s cities are generating new solidarities and ideas of what counts as a life worth living.
As Big Tech's data and profit extraction extends the world over, activists in the Global South are pointing the way to a more just digital future.
Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.
Neel Mukherjee is part of a new generation of Indian writers dissecting postcolonialism’s failed promise of a classless society.
The moral right of states to apprehend and deport irregular migrants erodes with the passage of time.
Feminism and trans* activism have been at odds for decades. They don't need to be.
An open letter from a Filipino writer to his fellow citizens.
Vijay Prashad on writing, struggle, and hope in difficult times.
Global capitalism is no longer simply characterized by uneven development, it is characterized by uneven disaster.
A new series explores how reading works by global women of color is generative.
In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.
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