The Kurdish people have sacrificed 13,000 lives in the fight against ISIS. Progressives should support their effort to build a secure base for direct democracy, feminism, and pluralism

Why do so many Western leftists side with dictators in the name of anti-imperialism? A new book seeks to moved beyond the old “the West and the rest”-binary

do we want a feminism for the 99 percent? Or a feminism of the 99 percent? And how can we know Clearly what we need now is a very big and powerful women’s movement, a united front of women, with room for different interests and organizations and politics.

Clearly what we need now is a very big and powerful women’s movement, a united front of women, with room for different interests and organizations and politics

You’d think it would be big news that there’s a liberated area in the Middle East led by socialist-feminists, where people make decisions through local councils and women hold 40 percent of leadership positions at all levels

The parameters of a two-state solution have been clear for many years

The Israel-Palestine conflict is the gift that keeps on giving for both the Muslim and Jewish Right; each can use it to…

Are the ideas of human rights so elitist and out of sync with popular movements that we might as well just give up?

It is hard to know what to do about a political system held captive by an alliance of big money and Bible-punchers

Femen’s April 4 protests in response to death threats against Tunisian nude blogger Amina Tyler have prompted much debate. How do we…