Israel's weaponization of images since October 7 obfuscates its genocidal campaign against Palestinians.

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

Amid ongoing reporting and ethical outrage, we need context for the fight between Hamas and Israel—and how it shapes possibilities for peace.

The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

In her new book, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández makes the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.

Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist.

Critics say human rights discourse blunts social transformation. It doesn't have to.

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

In the high-tech culture of Tel Aviv, military-grade spying on civilians has become just another office job.

Historian Samuel Moyn contends that efforts to conduct war humanely have only perpetuated it. But the solution must lie in politics, not a sacrifice of human rights.

The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan sacrificed politics—the only viable route to peace—for massive corruption and violence.

If many marine mammals are on the verge of extinction, it is not for lack of environmental activism, but because we are entangled in a global financial system that it does not seem possible to transform.

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.

The UN's "responsibility to protect" framework has failed to achieve a just international order. The Caribbean movement for reparations points the way forward.

The famine in Yemen is not simply “man-made.” Particular men are responsible, and they should be brought to justice.

U.S. foreign policy disasters fueled our current political crisis. But those who want a new approach must do more than point out past blunders.

Global justice requires that we look away from Geneva and New York to the outer fringes of global power.

A recent conference made it clear: military and corporate interests will prevail.

Coretta Scott King saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.

Stayed or not, Trump's ban highlights the need for strong immigrant rights.

What can W. E. B. Du Bois and the black radical tradition tell us about Trump's election and radical political action today?

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.

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

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.