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Kashmir’s High Price for Demanding Independence

In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.

  • Tariq Mir

On Ice

In U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities, the law’s reach is tenuous.

  • Colin Dayan

Bad News for Brazilian Democracy

Dilma Rousseff's impeachment circumvented the democratic process.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Will Peace Bring Justice to Colombia?

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

  • Lauren Carasik

No Easy End to Prison Profiteering

The DOJ says it will stop using private prisons. The truth is more complicated.

  • Christopher Petrella

“Go home!”: Being Foreign in Post-Brexit Britain

For many EU citizens in the UK, the Brexit vote means the end of home as they know it.

  • Andrea Mammone

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NATO Has Problems, But Trump Won’t Fix Them

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.

  • Simon Waxman

Blood in Honduras, Silence in the United States

The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

  • Lauren Carasik

Choosing Violence

War is almost always a choice, a madness we go along with.

  • Oded Na’aman

Paying for Punishment

Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.

  • Donna Murch

Waiting at Guantánamo

After fourteen years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi may finally have a chance at freedom.

  • Henry Ace Knight

Brexit Threatens World Peace and Security

The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders. 

  • Alex de Waal

Who’s to Blame in South Sudan?

The country needs a political rebirth.

  • Mahmood Mamdani

No Money and No Plan for Refugees

The UN’s World Humanitiarian Summit came up empty-handed.

  • Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Orlando: What’s God Got to Do with It?

Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.

  • Michael Bronski

The Problem of Punishment

Rapists should be held accountable. But is more incarceration the best way?

  • Judith Levine

That Lonesome Whistle

Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.

  • Candice Delmas

Writing Human Rights and Getting It Wrong

The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.

  • Alex de Waal

I Was Hacked by ISIS

With terrorism scares aplenty, how worried should one be?

  • Judith Levine

In Syria, Keeping the Faith

Democratic forces persist amid brutal regime violence and sectarian conflict.

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Winners and Losers in Brazil’s Presidential Impeachment

Is there a political coup underway?

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Chasing Lula

Bias and due process violations in Brazil’s massive corruption investigation.

  • Leonardo Avritzer

Matters of Choice

Scholar and retired Army officer Andrew Bacevich on the U.S. war for the Greater Middle East

  • Andrew J. Bacevich
  • Stephen Kinzer

On Stone Mountain

Bill Clinton, white supremacy, and the birth of the modern Democratic Party.

  • Christopher Petrella
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