Daniel Berliner is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. Registered 501(c)(3) ...

My grandmother was a good Catholic who didn’t go to college and had eight children. Her oldest child went to college and had one child, me. Your own family probably fits this pattern. In a decline ...

Paolo Giordano is an Italian writer. His latest novel is Tasmania, published in October 2024. Nihon Hidankyo, winners of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, make us see what we cannot: the consequences of our ...

On a state visit to Japan in May 2016, Barack Obama delivered a speech in Hiroshima that won immediate praise from Terumi Tanaka, at the time the secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese ...

Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...

Francis Wade is a London-based journalist covering political violence, identity, borders, and displacement. He is author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim Other.

I first arrived in Frankfurt, in this city of immigrants and exiles, in the fall of 1980, as a foreign student and scholar whose life was forever changed by her encounter with it. In Frankfurt I met ...

Like many women at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2024 Biennial, I lingered for a long time before “The Last Safe Abortion,” Carmen Winant’s assemblage of more than 2,500 photographs of abortion ...

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Toussaint Nothias is Associate Director of Research at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for African Studies. As Big Tech's data and profit extraction extends ...

Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...

Chantal Johnson’s debut novel, Post-Traumatic, makes the case that we can—by moving away from representations of individual suffering.