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Politics

A New Deal for Colombia

The country’s first left wing government and its hopes for reconciliation

July 6, 2022 • by Aura Angélica Hernández Cárdenas

"On August 7th, 2022, Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, the first Black woman to serve in high office, will lead the country’s first left-wing government. Their rise to power mirrors the resurgence of various left-wing politicians in other parts of Latin America, which is undergoing a striking ideological shift."...

Europe & Central Asia

Making Sense of the War

As the shock of war gives way to reflection, Ukrainian public discourse has turned to questions of the past, present and future

July 6, 2022 • by Tatiana Zhurzhenko

In Ukraine, the initial shock, anger, and sorrow have slowly given way to the sober realization that the war is not going to end soon. The first month passed like one day, but meanwhile, the feeling of time has returned. People and institutions are adjusting and even trying to make ...

Prisons and Police

Why School Security Makes Students Less Safe

Much has been said about police failures in Uvalde. But that failure occurred before they even arrived

July 6, 2022 • by Zeynep Gönen

What proposals to “harden the schools” succeed at is building out a police and penal state, one that has been growing exponentially since the 1970s, into social institutions where it targets poor and racialized populations....

Why School Security Makes Students Less Safe

Activism

Abortion Alone Is Not Justice

Successful reproductive politics must tackle all the challenges that those who want children face

June 29, 2022 • by Laura Briggs

We need a feminist movement that will stand up for conditions that facilitate life and well-being for all of us, because the situation of women, queer, and trans people—especially those of color—is a crisis that makes abortion necessary....

Activism

The Revolution Will Not Be Feminized

For all its socialist talk, Venezuela hasn’t done much to advance women’s rights

June 29, 2022 • by Cristina Ciordia, Venus Faddoul and Daniel Fermín

She was just thirteen. Nearly malnourished, she had dropped out of school. Her brain still developing, her self-esteem at its most vulnerable, she was raped, repeatedly, by a neighbor. She didn’t consent, she couldn’t have. She was just thirteen, and now she was pregnant. Her mother refused to let it be. ...

Activism

Fighting for Bodily Autonomy Is a Texas Tradition

As the state shuts down services for abortion and transgender kids, grassroots activists call on their history to fight back

June 27, 2022 • by Lauren Gutterman

All historical moments may be unique, but our current struggle is not new, and Texans are not unprepared. Recognizing the enduring nature of these battles, and acknowledging that activists fighting for our rights in Texas today are part of an ongoing struggle, has provided me with some strength and comfort ...

Fighting for Bodily Autonomy Is a Texas Tradition

Activism

Continuous Protest outside the Supreme Court

A photo essay

June 27, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Thousands of people congregated outside the Supreme Court on June 24, shortly after the Court announced that it was overturning Roe v. Wade. That 1973 decision had held that states could not regulate women’s right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus. People came and went throughout the ...

Continuous Protest outside the Supreme Court

Europe & Central Asia

Liberalism Needs Nationalism

A young person reflects on the war in Ukraine—and her generation’s yearnings

June 21, 2022 • by Sophie Boulter

In our yearning moment, nationalism can fill liberalism’s void—a void left by valueless chaos and unfulfilling choices. It is time to follow Ukraine’s lead and forge a civic nationalism that inspires everyone to find their stake, their anchor, within the sea of globalization. ...

Activism

Poor People’s Campaign Rallies on Capitol Hill

A photo essay

June 21, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Demographically, there were more oldsters than youngsters. Children were few and far between. They were about evenly split between Black and white, with a heavy sprinkling of Hispanics. ...

Poor People’s Campaign Rallies on Capitol Hill

Middle East & North Africa

Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder

Author Jason Pack presents Libya as a case study for global disorder

June 15, 2022 • by Sabina Henneberg

Pack uses the conflict in Libya as a microcosm for understanding global disorder, but asserts that the conflicts in Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, and eastern Ukraine could provide additional examples for his general argument....

Politics

The Big Lie

When the January 6 Select Committee chose this phrase to headline the second day of hearings they identified Donald J. Trump and his confederates as 21st century fascists

June 13, 2022 • by Claire Potter

The message from Republican politicians and their right-wing media flacks about the televised hearings of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, which have now completed their second day? They don’t matter. “Nothing to see here!” they are all quacking, as they have ...

Activism

March for Our Lives Rallies on DC Mall

A photo essay

June 13, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Twenty thousand people rallied on the DC Mall on June 12 to denounce gun violence. Organized by March for Our Lives, there were major rallies all over the country, in contrast to one very large national rally by this group in 2018. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was one of many speakers in ...