
Queen Elizabeth II’s death should bring about a reckoning in understanding how the British Empire helped destroy the planet. By Priya Satia, Time — Pakistan is under water, England faces an energy…
Queen Elizabeth II’s death should bring about a reckoning in understanding how the British Empire helped destroy the planet. By Priya Satia, Time — Pakistan is under water, England faces an energy…
Mourn the Queen, not her empire. She helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged. By Maya Jasanoff, The New York…
A Black Power radical, a Navy veteran, and the story behind the most boring channel on television. By Eamon Whalen, Mother Jones — In the late 1960s, Brian Lamb, the eventual…
Such a brutal choice portends a bleak immediate future for government in the U.K. By David Renton, Truthout — Boris Johnson’s government will go down in history as a record-breaker…
The Inflation Reduction Act that just passed the Senate is a deeply flawed bill, but one that gives us a fighting chance to avert climate catastrophe — if the public…
Royals should not be allowed to score ‘woke points’ by expressing regret over their ancestors’ atrocities. By Tafi Mhaka, Al Jazeera — On June 8, at the start of his…
Since 2017, the FBI has warned US Congress that the rise of white nationalism and the violence of extremist militia groups is a dangerous domestic terrorism threat. By Sophie Bjork-James,…
Bill Russell leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of winning championships and civil rights activism during a time of racial segregation. By Aram Goudsouzian, The Conversation — On May 1, 1968,…
By Adam Taylor, Washington Post — When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Cameroon this week, he called out an entire continent for “hypocrisy.” Europe had decisively identified Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
U.S. groups are calling on the Biden administration to stop its cruel sanctions that are creating such hardship for the Cuban people. By Medea Benjamin and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan,…
We all know that what people do tells you more about them than what they say. That’s true for politicians, too. By Ben Jealous — We see politicians who call…
By David Jessop, The Caribbean Council — In 2023, CARICOM will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Plans are underway for what may be a year-long celebration. Most governments, the secretariat, and…