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This Sunday, the fact that Lula brought out the largest crowd to São Paulo’s Paulista Avenue since the Diretas Já movement in…
Fifteen years after the indignados occupied the Puerta del Sol, Madrid’s central plaza is once again the locus of a mass movement that has…
On October 9th, the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize Was awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African international lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela…
Asia has seen a surge of “Gen Z protests,” led by a generation tired of accepting the status quo and increasingly using…
Judge Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize award on October 9 was a rare bit of very good news. “If you clap a…
For centuries, the lands stretching from the Levant to the Persian Gulf have been subjected to a strange form of conceptual alchemy. …
Every few months America discovers another “monster.”A celebrity. A billionaire. A politician. A religious leader. A professor. A CEO. The details differ,…
When the shrill of heavy earthmoving machinery crept towards Elias Mlambo’s riverside banana plantations in February, the sudden brownish color of the…
Political scientists have a fairly dry checklist for what makes a regime oppressive: it silences dissent, it turns state power against its…
In his address at the Pnyx in Athens on 7 October, Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered Greece an extravagant compliment: a…
On September 25, I attended a meeting between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and business leaders to discuss the outlook for…
We are living through a period when many people who care about justice and democracy are exhausted, frightened, or unsure what their…
There are very real reasons to be concerned about the future of our democracy and undoubtedly real stakes in the coming midterms.…
Can we ever understand history? Can we explain this long running drama, with its countless plots and subplots—past, present and future? Or…
Enormous protests in the Spanish state are calling for affordable housing and tenants’ rights — as a result, there will be new…
The world did not lack knowledge of what was happening to Palestinians. It knew. It knew that a people had been living…
An electoral turnaround is possible, however difficult. But the illusion that the left can govern without a long-term project, without confronting the…
To the untrained eye, the 11th Ward along the southernmost border of Minneapolis is a sleepy corner of the city, tucked away…
Argentina holds one of the most contradictory political histories in Latin America. The birthplace of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, with a powerful tradition…
Something important is happening across the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa. Wars that appear local are drawing in actors from…
