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April 8, 2022

What has the radicalized GOP been up to?

April 1, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s road to the Supreme Court

March 24, 2022

What you should know about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

March 17, 2022

Representation matters: South Asians in American pop culture since 9/11

March 14, 2022

A beginner’s guide to reproductive justice

March 10, 2022

A beginner’s guide to immigration

March 7, 2022

Critical Race Theory, Native communities, and American education

March 3, 2022

Why period poverty is everyone’s problem

March 1, 2022

Afghanistan’s female judges lost everything when the Taliban took over

February 24, 2022

A spike in pandemic-related mental illness has overwhelmed Canada’s health care system

February 24, 2022

How a traditional microsavings system enabled Nigerian women to save their businesses during the pandemic

February 17, 2022

The Freedom Convoy’s politics are fringe, but the average Canadian’s frustration is real

February 17, 2022

Conservative Christianity’s influence on the ‘Freedom Convoy’ indicates global spread of authoritarianism

February 10, 2022

‘In our own words’: refugee actors share their stories on stage

February 9, 2022

Republicans want to solve the labor shortage problem by putting children to work

February 3, 2022

Why ‘Partygate’ could be the end of Boris Johnson’s political career

February 3, 2022

Myanmar’s military has crushed press freedom

February 3, 2022

Softbois in France: a feminist perspective on the rise of Éric Zemmour

January 27, 2022

The ‘uterus collector’: the surgeon who performed coerced hysterectomies on detained migrant women

January 20, 2022

The UN’s push for a cybercrime treaty could endanger the security of journalists

January 20, 2022

Edited out of history: the Jewish women who fought the Nazis

January 13, 2022

The year started out well for justice, but less so for accountability

January 13, 2022

A genocide-denying autocrat is threatening to throw a lit match into Bosnia’s tinderbox

January 6, 2022

Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction is just one step toward still-elusive justice for her victims

January 6, 2022

Media roundup: how should we analyze the impact of last year’s attempted coup?

January 5, 2022

In Belarus, Lukashenko’s vindictiveness reaches new heights

December 21, 2021

Women are people, no matter what the Supreme Court says

December 20, 2021

Gabriel Boric becomes Chile’s youngest president on a progressive mandate

December 16, 2021

The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell: justice delayed—and possibly denied

December 16, 2021

‘The rights of journalists are being taken away’: Hong Kong’s most prominent media mogul is jailed

December 9, 2021

‘Bees are like my family’: A female beekeeper is reviving honey production in Kashmir

December 9, 2021

To stop Putin, grab him by his wallet

December 2, 2021

COP26 fell short, but ended with a ray of hope

November 24, 2021

Risking arrest, prison & death, Belarus’s underground activists fight for democracy

November 18, 2021

Chile faces its most consequential election since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship

November 18, 2021

The world’s most famous Facebook whistleblower should amplify those who came before her

November 11, 2021

The feminist debate about James Bond is a marketing strategy

November 11, 2021

Little Amal arrives in the UK as parliament considers a bill that would see her deported

November 5, 2021

‘I Am Belmaya’: film review

November 4, 2021

‘If this is what being canceled is like, I love it!’: Dave Chappelle plays the culture war game

October 28, 2021

Striketober: America’s workers are rising up

October 28, 2021

Margaret Atwood’s opposition to gender-inclusive language is disappointing, but not surprising

October 20, 2021

Two Facebook whistleblowers leaned in, but only one became a media star

October 14, 2021

In defense of ordinary abortion

October 14, 2021

‘I cry a lot, every day’: victims of the Dutch child benefits scandal fight for compensation

October 7, 2021

As a survivor of domestic abuse, I recognized my own face in Gabby Petito’s

October 5, 2021

Blowing the whistle on Facebook is just the first step

October 1, 2021

The delights and the dangers of deplatforming extremists

September 27, 2021

Elizabeth Holmes’s legal strategy: part Svengali, part ‘can’t touch this’

September 23, 2021

Rafia Zakaria’s ‘Against White Feminism’ is a cathartic read for a non-white feminist

September 22, 2021

This is Little Amal, the puppet refugee girl on a European odyssey

September 14, 2021

‘Mob rule over the womb’: the Texas abortion law is a huge win for the Christian right

September 14, 2021

According to Texas law, your body doesn’t belong to you

September 10, 2021

Black women shouldn’t have to assert their right to self care

September 7, 2021

‘The fear is real’: the CEO of Afghanistan’s biggest media outlet on the challenges of broadcasting under Taliban rule

September 3, 2021

‘The most conspiratorial demographic’: white evangelicals and the QAnon connection

September 1, 2021

‘This used to be a blessed craft for women’: in Kashmir, artisanal pashmina weaving is disappearing

August 12, 2021

To house the people, expropriate the landlords

August 5, 2021

‘Clean the streets of faggots’: governments in the Middle East & North Africa target LGBT people via social media

July 29, 2021

How the Soviet Jews changed the world: a graphic tale of tragedy and triumph

July 23, 2021

Sexually aware and on air: Beyond Turkey’s comfort zone

July 15, 2021

Kashmir’s lost generation of children

July 9, 2021

We wish to inform you that privacy is dead

July 7, 2021

Bill Cosby’s release from prison has nothing to do with #metoo

June 30, 2021

Thoughts on New York’s re-opened NIMBY economy

June 30, 2021

How I got over the anxiety of my pandemic weight gain and even had fun

June 24, 2021

Hating Malala is now ‘en vogue’ in Pakistan

June 22, 2021

‘Irreplaceable’: the battle to save the last ancient trees of Canada’s temperate rain forest

June 17, 2021

Now comes the mental health pandemic

June 15, 2021

‘The Pursuit of Love’: a sanitized portrait of the Nazi-loving Mitford sisters

June 10, 2021

‘A lack of compassion’: Canada’s shameful history of medical colonialism

June 8, 2021

Muslim feminists are not interested in the white woman’s gaze

June 4, 2021

Kashmiri women defy patriarchy & politics to pursue careers in the sciences

June 1, 2021

How a political candidate can help their party win—by losing

May 27, 2021

The fascism is already here, but we can’t see it through the lens of exceptionalism

May 26, 2021

Mark Darcy and the allure of taciturn men who love with actions instead of words

May 20, 2021

Digital disinformation is driving illiberal democracies toward authoritarianism

May 18, 2021

We are watching real time genocide in China

May 13, 2021

What did Melinda Gates know—and when did she know it?

May 12, 2021

‘I act against power’: Sylvana Simons is proudly disrupting politics as usual in the Netherlands

May 5, 2021

Dreaming big: the politics of preaching body acceptance in a fat phobic society

May 4, 2021

I celebrated Holi in New York while in India friends and family begged for hospital beds

April 30, 2021

‘No, you cannot say goodbye to your loved one’: processing the pandemic year

April 29, 2021

Why you should continue to wear a mask outdoors, even after you’ve been vaccinated

April 24, 2021

Bearing witness to genocide: ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ is a shattering, essential film

April 22, 2021

The US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan is an admission of absolute failure

April 21, 2021

My joy over the Derek Chauvin verdict was fleeting because I know America

April 16, 2021

‘Vulgarity has consequences’: Pakistan’s prime minister blames rising number of rape cases on women’s dress choices

April 15, 2021

The right to protest is under threat in Britain

April 9, 2021

Between Nazis and democracy activists: social media and the free speech dilemma

April 8, 2021

April Fools’ Day in the year of the plague

April 1, 2021

‘Patria y Vida’: the Cuban song that has become a global rallying cry

March 26, 2021

Pakistani women are claiming their right to be in public spaces—one cup of chai at a time

March 19, 2021

Despite big wins at the Grammys, women are vastly underrepresented in pop music

March 19, 2021

For asylum seekers, Canada’s immigration policies can seem capricious and even cruel

March 12, 2021

French gov’t diverts attention from its war on academic freedom with free period products

March 11, 2021

Christian symbols at the Capitol insurrection ignited a debate among American evangelicals

March 5, 2021

Reframing Britney Spears: will freedom liberate her from sadness?

February 26, 2021

‘Unfit for human habitation’: asylum seekers in the UK are housed in filthy army barracks

February 19, 2021

Content moderation won’t stop the spread of disinformation. Here’s why.

February 12, 2021

In Myanmar, the internet is a tool and a weapon

February 5, 2021

Pakistan’s female influencers are challenging the patriarchy

January 29, 2021

Christian nationalism after Trump remains a powerful and destructive force

January 22, 2021

Alexei Navalny: the Russian anti-corruption activist who refuses to back down

January 15, 2021

A call to end border violence in Europe

January 8, 2021

The predictable terror of Trump’s rise and fall

December 17, 2020

‘A spiritual battle for hearts and souls’: white evangelicals grapple with post-Trump America

December 4, 2020

‘Potential Histories: Unlearning Imperialism’: a review of Ariella Azoulay’s new book

November 26, 2020

Why do so many evangelicals continue to deny that Biden won the election?

November 20, 2020

Thanksgiving elegy

November 12, 2020

How to survive Trumpism and even laugh

November 6, 2020

The Belarusian protests: feminized, but feminist?

October 29, 2020

Pro-Biden white evangelicals are a minority. The vast majority will support Trump

October 22, 2020

‘Another Country,’ redux: Americans are (again) moving abroad to seek a better life

October 16, 2020

The case for taking from the Pentagon and giving to the people

October 9, 2020

Belarus’s protests are fueled by an unprecedented civil society movement

October 1, 2020

The struggle to combat cyber bullying begins with compassion

September 24, 2020

The failure of ‘respectable’ evangelicalism, part 3

September 18, 2020

Revenge of the patriarchs

September 17, 2020

Russia as a mirror of American racism

September 11, 2020

“We don’t want to die!” Turkish women demand government action to end femicide

September 3, 2020

To become a citizen or not? Long-term U.S. permanent residents consider their options in the age of Trump

August 28, 2020

The failure of ‘respectable’ evangelicalism: part 2

August 20, 2020

The Israel-UAE deal is a triumph for authoritarianism

August 13, 2020

Why you should care about what’s happening in Belarus

August 6, 2020

Radical community is the way to counter the Trumpian populist spectacle

July 30, 2020

The failure of ‘respectable’ evangelicalism, part I

July 23, 2020

In her 1984 science fiction novel ‘Native Tongue,’ linguist Suzette Haden Elgin created a feminist language from scratch

July 16, 2020

My alcoholism taught me to forgive my father for his own drunken rages

July 9, 2020

The people who signed the Harper’s letter seem blinded to what censorship is in the real world

July 9, 2020

A four year-old is dead because the legal system failed to protect her from her abusive father

July 2, 2020

The pandemic laid bare all the reasons I hate living in the city I love

June 25, 2020

The Christian Right, the Bostock decision, and the struggle to define religious freedom

June 18, 2020

A daughter reflects on a volatile father who brought out her best and hurt her the most

June 11, 2020

The United States cannot put its economy in order unless it invests in child care

June 5, 2020

The revolution will not be humanized

May 28, 2020

Liberty University eliminates its Philosophy Department, furthering the Christian right’s anti-intellectual backlash

May 28, 2020

Are cities really all that? A provocative exhibition takes a new look at the countryside

May 22, 2020

America is home but Canada is safer: after 30 years, and despite a fulfilling personal life, is it time to leave?

May 14, 2020

Can private industry save the environment with for-profit green initiatives?

May 14, 2020

Escaping pandemic Brooklyn? You’re probably white, even if you have less money than your Black neighbors

May 8, 2020

If you care about saving democracy, you must learn how to deal with disinformation

May 8, 2020

On Mother’s Day, I feel no desire to pay tribute to my mother

April 30, 2020

“Jesus is my vaccine”: culture wars, coronavirus, and the 2020 election

April 24, 2020

What the pandemic is teaching us about working from home

April 16, 2020

The global pandemic shows that cities can afford to make public transport free of charge

April 10, 2020

In Canada, a female Indigenous chef popularizes local, pre-European cuisine

April 3, 2020

In the UK and the USA, the political left has rejected female leadership in 2020

March 27, 2020

Authoritarian Christians are deliberately undermining the public health response to coronavirus

March 20, 2020

Soldiers with smartphones can be a gift to the enemy

March 13, 2020

Nose to tail with a lady butcher

March 5, 2020

The Prodigal Techbro

February 27, 2020

Meet the Democratic candidate who plans to flip her district and take it back from the woman Trump called “a new Republican star”

February 20, 2020

A standoff over a gas pipeline has become an international call for environmental action

February 13, 2020

The only way to save democracy from the Christian Right is by fighting for pluralism

February 7, 2020

Enya: icon of radical softness

January 31, 2020

Escorting voters to the polls is as crucial as escorting women to abortion clinics

January 24, 2020

Desperately seeking answers in the law

January 10, 2020

Dear America: the death of Qasem Soleimani is not all about you

December 20, 2019

Lessons in resistance at a former yoga ashram

December 10, 2019

British voters are sick of talking about Brexit

December 5, 2019

How film and television put last week’s Thanksgiving celebration in cultural context

November 22, 2019

‘Wall’ is a four-letter word

November 14, 2019

The Gambia has filed a case of genocide at The Hague against Myanmar, on behalf of the Rohingya

November 14, 2019

If we want to save American democracy, we must have a very difficult conversation about evangelical Christianity

November 8, 2019

Social media’s right wing bias is baked in to its business model

October 25, 2019

Is philanthropy subverting democracy?

October 18, 2019

The ground beneath Trump’s feet

October 11, 2019

‘Hustlers’ is a lesson in feminism from women of color

October 4, 2019

How Israel became the most divisive issue for Jewish Americans

September 27, 2019

When a plane fell from the sky, the lies rose up to meet it

September 13, 2019

This is your phone on feminism

September 6, 2019

His year of reading women

August 30, 2019

Toni Morrison’s novels taught me to see the world through a lens of compassion

August 23, 2019

How can we stop social media from manipulating our emotions?

August 23, 2019

‘Saving lives is not a crime’: when ordinary people sacrifice everything in the name of humanity

August 16, 2019

How less-than-great men brought Britain to its worst hour

August 9, 2019

Who will write our history? The world looks away while Idlib awaits its fate

August 8, 2019

Why Joe Biden’s former position on school busing is anti-democratic

August 2, 2019

When ‘I’m sorry’ is meaningful: seeking transformative justice in the age of #MeToo

July 26, 2019

In 2020, America will decide between oligarchy and egalitarianism

July 26, 2019

Living in terror of the knock on the door

July 19, 2019

Why editors are so reluctant to label Donald Trump a racist

July 19, 2019

Back to the future: How Palestine can pull itself out of the 1980s

July 12, 2019

Would a female president be a feminist for the world, or only for America?

July 3, 2019

The problem with billionaires bearing liberal gifts

June 28, 2019

In Quebec, a new law forces minorities to choose between their religion and their profession

June 27, 2019

Searching for a way to rescue the American dream

June 26, 2019

The Conversationalist: a new name and an expanded mission

June 21, 2019

America’s foreign policy is undermined by the dominance of white men

June 14, 2019

Comedy’s role as a catalyst for social change

June 13, 2019

How the far right games social media platforms

June 7, 2019

We would have enough food to feed the planet if we stopped wasting so much of it

June 6, 2019

This is how China’s political dissidents keep historical memory alive

May 31, 2019

The corrosive effect of the ‘Trump bump’

May 30, 2019

Reclaiming their privacy

May 24, 2019

Make bilingualism great

May 17, 2019

Policy, not aid: how to avert catastrophe in Gaza

May 10, 2019

Why Democrats are battling Trump at the state level

May 3, 2019

Doctors could alleviate the opioid crisis — if the government would let them

March 15, 2019

Pakistan’s feminist revolution: the second generation

February 8, 2019

Solutions to intractable problems: homelessness, debt, political polarization, and more

January 22, 2019

‘Your echo chamber is a trap’: on Trump and the media

January 22, 2019

Wilbur Ross, Trump and Russia: dirty money in the White House

January 22, 2019

Woke vets: ‘Hardly anyone gives a shit’ about America’s perpetual war

January 22, 2019

What were the Nazis thinking when they killed all those people?

January 22, 2019

Russia as a “White Man’s Paradise” & Other Scary Reasons Why Trump Adores Putin (and what to do about it)

January 22, 2019

American Russophobia is real — and it’s helping Putin.

January 22, 2019

Trump Underground

January 22, 2019

Woke Vets: ‘Disregard for civilian casualties hurts our mission’

January 22, 2019

Woke vets: black skies and the suicide gate

January 22, 2019

‘Americans see our military adventures as a spectator sport,’ says former U.S. Army Ranger

January 22, 2019

Think Melania ‘deserves what she gets’? Guess what, you’re helping Trump

January 22, 2019

The Republic Conquered: on America entering the post-democratic era