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Articles tagged with global
Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.
Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead, it transfers money to the global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.
Sovereign states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order. History shows how new they are—and how we can think beyond them.
There is a cost to advancing caste as the preeminent analytic in place of race—we lose the precision that comes with naming our affliction a problem of anti-Blackness. We mistake the map for the territory, the skin for the bones, and the bones for the skin.
The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.
An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics.
As the 2020 presidential election nears, internationalists are plotting their return. But they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.
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.
Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.
Germany's low death rate and quick payout of relief to workers makes a case for social democracy as preparedness.
