Society
essay
Biography and memoir
My blackness
At times I’ve tried to escape it. Other times I’ve embraced it. But at all times, people have attempted to define me by it
Colin Grant
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Gender and identity
Disarming transphobia
‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ is a popular weapon in the anti-trans arsenal. It is nothing but unscientific bunk
Quinnehtukqut McLamore
video
Human rights and justice
Thirty years after one teenager shot another, is it time to forgive?
28 minutes
video
Art
The revolutionary artist who propelled the Black Panther movement with imagery
8 minutes
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History
The doxxing of Rose Mainville
When a young street vendor found her name in a guidebook to the sex workers of Paris, she couldn’t live with the shame
Amanda E Herbert & David N Woodworth
video
Human rights and justice
Beyond ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ – could a range of verdict options be more just?
9 minutes
essay
Human rights and justice
Exhuming the truth
Thousands of victims of political executions lie in anonymous graves. Forensics offers hope for the ‘forgotten’ ones
Nicole Iturriaga
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Animals and humans
Happy the person
She has deep emotions, complex social needs and a large, elephant brain. Her legal personhood should be recognised too
Lori Marino
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Ethics
Collective wrongs
Even when individual perpetrators and victims are dead, states and institutions have a responsibility to make restitutions
Joshua Stein
video
Human rights and justice
The staggering cruelty of Ireland’s Church-run ‘mother and baby homes’
18 minutes
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Human rights and justice
Abolish life sentences
It is unjust, cruel and profoundly wasteful to consign a person to prison for life. A decent society must not do it
Judith Lichtenberg
video
Art
‘Long Live Degenerate Art’ – how a Surrealist group in Cairo defied repression in 1938
4 minutes
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Political philosophy
Democracy entails conflict
Democracy is a system of politics that has disagreement at its heart. But how do we stop conflicts becoming destructive?
Rochelle DuFord
video
Human rights and justice
Portugal stole Goa’s lands and narratives. Can they ever truly be returned?
19 minutes
essay
Human rights and justice
Breakfast with the Panthers
It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California
Suzanne Cope
video
Family life
A son of China’s former one-child policy remembers the sibling he never had
8 minutes
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Ethics
The Midas Disease
Corruption is a truly global crisis and the wealth addiction that feeds it is hiding in plain sight
Sarah Chayes
essay
Human rights and justice
Inside ambiguity
We are suspended between the inescapable facts of our lives and what we do to contest them, nowhere more than in prison
Andy West
essay
Politics and government
High crimes and cabals
The official definition of corruption – the abuse of public office for private gain – does little to capture the reality
Sudhir Chella Rajan
video
Economic history
The perilous lives of the ‘climbing boys’ who swept chimneys in 19th-century London
5 minutes
video
Demography and migration
Tension, bureaucracy and deep humanity define life aboard a refugee rescue ship
27 minutes
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Mood and emotion
The meaning of anger
Is anger like energy, forever changing form but never dissipating, or part of our repertoire of desires, the cry of a need unmet?
Josh Cohen
essay
Information and communication
Trolls be gone
Anonymous users generate most toxic abuse and conspiracy theories online. The right to be anonymous should be curtailed
Stephen Kinsella
video
Human rights and justice
When the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence canonised Derek Jarman
24 minutes