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Polish director Agnieszka Holland's new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.
Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.
The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.
On stopping the fighting and building the peace.
On stopping the fighting and building the peace.
Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.
Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead it transfers money to the Global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.
There is a cost to replacing race with caste our analysis of oppression: we erase anti-Blackness.
The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.
An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics.
Internationalists are plotting their return, but they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.
On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, it is clear that white supremacy sustains the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.
Global justice requires that we look away from Geneva and New York to the outer fringes of global power.
Erdogan is all too easily labelled a populist. But the reasons for his popularity are more complicated.
America loves pitting Black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.
From scrapbooks to family albums, the people of Kashmir have recorded their history in photographs. A new book presents their visual testimonies.
After Turkey's failed 2016 coup, retribution has become a farcical national obsession.
Two new British reports deliver a damning and decisive verdict on the politics of interventionism.
The idea that Putin is driven by the philosophy of Eurasianism obscures the pragmatism of Russia's foreign policy.
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.
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.
Dilma Rousseff's impeachment circumvented the democratic process.
Will victims of the war be served by the call for restorative justice?
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 U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.
The Olympics have long tried to obscure the political nature of sport.
The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders.
The UN's World Humanitiarian Summit came up empty-handed.
Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.
The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.
New leaks prove the impeachment is intended to protect corrupt politicians.
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