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Global justice requires that we look away from Geneva and New York to the outer fringes of global power.
A ‘dangerous’ populist will likely be elected president this weekend—and he may be just what the country needs.
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, a new book presents their visual testimonies from Kashmir.
After Turkey's failed 2016 coup, retribution has become a farcical national obsession.
Two 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.
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