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What the concert hall attack means for the Russian leader's future.
On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.
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.
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.
Sovereign states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order. History shows how new they are—and how we can think beyond them.
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.Â
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.Â
Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.
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