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Human rights

Politics, Race

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Global Justice, Politics

Blood in Honduras, Silence in the United States

The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

Lauren Carasik

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

Queers Against Hate

Radical gay liberation laid the ground for the moderate legal gains of gay rights.

Michael Bronski

Law & Justice, Politics

Waiting at Guantánamo

After fourteen years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi may finally have a chance at freedom.

Henry Ace Knight

Global Justice, Politics

Who’s to Blame in South Sudan?

The country needs a political rebirth.

Mahmood Mamdani

Global Justice, Politics

No Money and No Plan for Refugees

The UN's World Humanitiarian Summit came up empty-handed.

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

Orlando: What’s God Got to Do with It?

Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.

Michael Bronski

Global Justice, Politics

Writing Human Rights and Getting It Wrong

The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.

Alex de Waal

Arts in Society, Global Justice

The Look of Disaster

Comic books can document the horrors of war better than photos.

Elizabeth Hand

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

Lola Ridge: The Radical Modernist We Won't Forget Twice

The past-due revival of Lola Ridge: poet, editor, feminist, and political activist.

Terese Svoboda

Global Justice, Politics

A Rock and a Hard Place

The neglect and abuse of Pakistan's tribal areas.

Umar Farooq

Class & Inequality, Race

Race and Dignity

Freedom needs the dignity that only our community can give us.

Melvin Rogers

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