Society
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Human rights and justice
Beyond ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ – could a range of verdict options be more just?
9 minutes
essay
Politics and government
An unholy alliance
Authoritarian leaders who play the religious card are not mere hypocrites. There’s something far more troubling going on
Suzanne Schneider
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Fairness and equality
How the first woman of colour to be elected to the US Congress remade education
21 minutes
essay
Politics and government
What lies beneath government
Buka Town in Bougainville shows how bureaucratic states could be reimagined, not as concrete buildings but as living gardens
Gordon Peake & Miranda Forsyth
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Demography and migration
The ungreat replacement
Workers in the West have indeed been repressed – but not by immigrants. The policies of their own governments are to blame
John Rapley
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Politics and government
Is mass media still ‘manufacturing consent’ in the internet age?
5 minutes
essay
Nations and empires
The discontent of Russia
Lenin envisioned Soviet unity. Stalin called Russia ‘first among equals’. Yet Russian nationalism never went away
Joy Neumeyer
essay
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
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Art
Is paying with hand-drawn banknotes artistry or forgery? The knotty case of J S G Boggs
10 minutes
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History
Cowboy progressives
You likely think of the American West as deeply conservative and rural. Yet history shows this politics is very new indeed
Daniel J Herman
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Gender and identity
How the spy-cam epidemic in South Korea affects the women who are its victims
35 minutes
video
Mood and emotion
Close-ups on the night of anticipation in the 2020 US presidential elections
6 minutes
video
Fairness and equality
With barely a possession to his name, Rabbit builds a life around fighting corruption
10 minutes
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
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Human rights and justice
When the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence canonised Derek Jarman
24 minutes
essay
Stories and literature
This is no love story
Strange entanglements of politics and romantic love marked England’s conquest of Ireland and still haunt the Irish today
Alison Garden
essay
Economics
The biggest picture
No wonder we cannot agree on how globalisation works and whether it’s a good thing. All the stories we have are flawed
Anthea Roberts & Nicholas Lamp
essay
Nations and empires
The emancipated Empire
The British Empire was first built on slavery and then on the moral and economic self-confidence of antislavery
Padraic Scanlan
essay
Political philosophy
What is ‘the West’?
While the West belonged to a European geography, its name meant something. Now it is a vague invocation, laden with fear
Faisal Devji
essay
Education
Jefferson’s university
Thomas Jefferson founded a university believing it would safeguard republican freedom. Slavery was another matter altogether
Alan Taylor
essay
Political philosophy
How important is white fear?
It’s become a commonplace that demographic anxiety is driving white voters to the far Right. This is dangerously wrong
Mark R Reiff
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Human rights and justice
How did the NRA transform from a sporting group to a mighty political force?
10 minutes
essay
Nations and empires
Exit the Fatherland
Shaking off Nazism was no simple matter: the work to create a plural and peacable Germany was prolonged and painful
Helmut Walser Smith
essay
Nations and empires
The patriot paradox
Globalism is out. Nationalism is in. Progressives who think they can jump aboard are dangerously naive
Jeremy Adelman