Guatemalan indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchú helped set the tone and forge the climate that convicted the rabidly anti-communist general Efraín Rios Montt and condemned many others guilty of ...

Review of The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett (Allen Lane, 2024) Nobody noticed it, but the funniest thing happened when Hugo Chavez ...

During the summer of protests that followed the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd in May 2020, journalists and readers alike began taking a hard look at how much news reporting relied on ...

Recent crackdowns on free assembly are a reminder that the state will always finish first in deplatforming contests. Parts of Canada’s Online Harms Bill may be a massive overreach that chills speech ...

Seven years since the failed bid for Catalan independence, the national question still haunts Spanish politics. But Sunday’s snap elections in Catalonia are also about its economic model — and its ...

Neil deMause is a Brooklyn-based journalist who is the author of two books and innumerable articles for a multitude of news outlets.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, Jonathan Blitzer’s book on the brutal history of US border policy, vividly describes the suffering that the US immigration system inflicts on individuals — and the ...

On taking power, Narendra Modi’s government claimed that it would address a wave of sexual violence and raise the status of Indian women. But things have got worse for women under Modi’s rule, with a ...

Maya John is assistant professor of history at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.

Mongolia just had another disastrous winter. By the end of April, the animal death toll had reached 7.1 million — more than 10 percent of the entire herd. It could increase further as during the “dzud ...

At San Francisco State University, students built a democratic pro-Palestine protest movement — convincing the university president to engage in open bargaining and to work on a proposal for ...

Paul Robeson’s encounters with the international labor movement inspired his socialism and anti-imperialism. Paul Robeson at the first night of Show Boat at Leicester Square Theatre, London, 1936.