Abeyagoonasekera begins by outlining the reality on the ground since the February 2021 coup d’état. More than 6,000 people have been killed, over 3.5 million displaced and roughly half the population ...

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth winter, a parallel conflict is being fought not in the trenches of the Donbas, but in Brussels. The weapon of choice is neither artillery nor drones, but ...

In today’s world, where refugee crises are exacerbated by xenophobic border policies, where the global north refuses to engage in burden sharing, where people’s freedom of movement is ruthlessly ...

The peculiarities of classical Greece make empirical theories of political revolution much easier to imagine than in, say, the Persian Empire, which was a hereditary monarchy for pretty much its ...

In recent years, there has been a sizable uptick in the number of young adults living with their parents, a trend not seen since the Great Depression, nearly a century ago. This phenomenon inspired ...

There is a malicious paradox that still haunts humanity’s conscience: one that is concealed in religious jargon that reeks of violence and revenge, in the echo of war screams and the shadow of smoke ...

Jenkins grew up in a cotton mill town in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina, in a family where mill work begins young and college is more aspiration than inheritance. His parents insisted he ...

Khan claimed there was a foreign conspiracy to oust him. He tried to subvert both the parliament and the judiciary to cling on to power. Yet his claims of a foreign hand in his ouster appear overly ...

This piece is a response to “What Happens When Nationalists in Israel and India Team Up,” a piece from TomDispatch that Fair Observer republished on December 21, 2023. The authors of the piece made ...

Writing for The New Republic, Edith Olmstead reports that a former CIA Director “didn’t mince words” when describing an innovative method of war employed by Israel in Lebanon. “Even Leon Panetta Says ...

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