When news of the end of the Vietnam War arrived fifty years ago, immortalized in images of U.S. helicopters lifting off from ...

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. This is the first installment of a new bimonthly column by David Austin Walsh. “A moment of ...

Around sunset on March 25, Fatema Ahmad, executive director of the grassroots Muslim Justice League in Boston, was winding down after a call with a group of attorneys. They had been strategizing their ...

In 2013 Charles Murray traveled to the Galápagos Islands to deliver an address to the Mont Pelerin Society—that font of neoliberalism, founded in 1947 by Friedrich Hayek. But Murray’s talk didn’t run ...

In an image shared around the world, Elon Musk is seen grunting while waving a chainsaw over his head at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington in February. Perhaps less ...

On September 26, 2014, more than a hundred students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College, a men’s school in the coastal state of Guerrero, commandeered five public buses and headed for Mexico ...

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” Dick the Butcher declares in Shakespeare’s Henry VI: Part 2. Trump understands that for authoritarianism to prevail, the first thing to do is to ...

Verónica Gago teaches political science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and is Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin. A feminist activist and member of the Ni Una Menos ...

Michael Jacobs is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sheffield. He was previously General Secretary of the Fabian Society, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers at the UK ...

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In 1945 a ship lay in wait on the Mersey River by Liverpool, then Britain’s foremost imperial port. Stripped of its cargo and packed with bunk beds, the ship contained a hundred dazed Chinese ...