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Celebrated Indian poet and activist Varavara Rao is in mortal danger of succumbing to COVID-19 if he is not released from prison.
Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla
Fifteen years old this week, Guatemala’s National Police archive has helped prosecute numerous officials for their roles in the country’s civil war. Now shuttered by a Trump-backed government, its dramatic history illustrates the crucial role of state archives in protecting democracy.
Kirsten Weld
The Trump administration’s sanctions against Iran and cuts to SNAP benefits are two sides of the same war that the rich are waging against the global poor.
Liz Theoharis
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. “Bring us back some help,” residents say, living through an environmental horror that evokes centuries of official disinterest in black suffering, as well as a future in which the poor are left to suffer in areas made uninhabitable by climate change.
Walter Johnson
They also acknowledged, for the first time, that the grounds for torturing Abu Zubaydah—who was detained in the wake of September 11 and is still languishing in Guantánamo—were mistaken.
Joseph Margulies
In 2001, three frameworks for handling international crises emerged: the War on Terror, an ill-defined "responsibility to protect" struggling countries, and the Caribbean movement for reparations. The first two have failed, but the third may still have something to tell us.
Adom Getachew
The famine in Yemen is not simply “man-made.” Particular men are responsible, and they should be brought to justice.
Alex de Waal
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.
Rajan Menon
The government’s new Nation State Law codifies prejudice, but therein lies a silver lining.
Odeh Bisharat
Global justice requires that we look away from Geneva and New York to the outer fringes of global power.
Mark Goodale
Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing is later this week. Here’s why we should all be concerned.
Scott Casleton
What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?
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