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Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

When Quotas Come Up Short

Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it.

Marie E. Berry, Milli Lake

Global Justice

Neoliberal Hong Kong Is Our Future, Too

While economists enshrine Hong Kong as the ideal free market, the social consequences of its neoliberal policies have been disastrous.

Macabe Keliher

Law & Justice

What We Can Learn From India's Improbable Democracy

Though Modi's government draws concern today, the country's constitutional history suggests a framework for creating democracy in unlikely settings. 

Ashutosh Varshney

Global Justice, War & Security

The Racist Foundation of Nuclear Architecture

On the seventy-fifth anniversary of Hiroshima, it is increasingly clear that white supremacy sustains the U.S. nuclear arsenal, while the country's approach to nuclear weapons reinforces racism at home. 

Elaine Scarry

Global Justice, Politics

No, Autocracies Aren't Better for Public Health

Some have praised China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but its suppression of information helped cause the problem in the first place.

Yasheng Huang

Global Justice

Uncivil Disobedience in Hong Kong

The protests have been critiqued for their rejection of classic nonviolence—but that may help explain why they has been so successful.

Candice Delmas

Arts in Society, Global Justice

How to Think About Empire

Boston Review speaks with Arundhati Roy on censorship, storytelling, and her problem with the term ‘postcolonialism.’

Arundhati Roy, Avni Sejpal

Politics

Erdogan’s Ottomania

In a bid to consolidate power, Erdoğan is reshaping Turkish politics in the image of the Ottoman past.

M. Hakan Yavuz

War & Security

Peace Regimes

Trump has promised a Korean "peace regime." But whose peace is being insured? And who is subject to its imposition? 

Jessie Kindig

Politics

No Eulogy for the Living

An open letter from a Filipino writer to his fellow citizens.

Miguel Syjuco

Global Justice

Writing While Socialist

Vijay Prashad on writing, struggle, and hope in difficult times.

Vijay Prashad, Mark Nowak

War & Security

How to Avoid War with North Korea

As Trump tweets us closer to war, a look back at North Korean nationalism may provide an out.

Odd Arne Westad

       

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