
Lord of the Rings and The Little Mermaid are just the latest targets of racist fans. By Aja Romano, Vox — Two new adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and The Little…
Lord of the Rings and The Little Mermaid are just the latest targets of racist fans. By Aja Romano, Vox — Two new adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and The Little…
As prince, Charles used tax breaks, offshore accounts and canny real estate investments to turn a sleepy estate into a billion-dollar business. By Jane Bradley and Euan Ward, The New…
When the state acts in your name, it’s your reputation that’s held to account. By Charles P. Pierce, Esquire — Marie Howe was a state representative from the 31st Middlesex…
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…