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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

Global Justice, Politics

The Failure of Refugee Camps

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Forum

The Logic of Effective Altruism

A minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of one’s spare resources to make the world a better place.

Peter Singer

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Sexual Liberation

Without sexual liberation, sexual oppression and sexual violence will continue.

Judith Levine

Global Justice

Open Letter to Gayle Smith, Nominee for USAID Administrator

At USAID there’s one simple thing you can commit to: no famine.

Alex de Waal

Global Justice, War & Security

Protecting (Violent) Protest

The legacy of the Gaza flotilla incident, five years later.

Itamar Mann

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Tell Narendra Modi: Human Development is More than GDP

This updated piece was originally published by the Hindu Centre for Politics and Public

Martha C. Nussbaum

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