Introduction: Beyond the Illusion of Democratic Normality The political phenomenon of Donald Trump is often interpreted through the lens of ...

Melat Kiros was born in 1997, the year her representative in the U.S. House, Democrat Diana DeGette, took office. On Tuesday, Kiros hopes to unseat ...

There is nothing more common than to confound the terms of the American Revolution with those of the late American war. The American war is over, but ...

Alex Hochuli is a writer, researcher and consultant based in São Paulo, Brazil and host of Aufhebunga Bunga global politics podcast.

The Second World War is here, and it is only a matter of time before the United States is an open belligerent in words as well as in deeds. Of all the ...

In the fall of 2022, the European Parliament and the EU Council adopted a "directive" – the EU's word for a law – called EU-2022/2041 to support an ...

Words matter in conflict, and few carry more consequences than ‘terrorist’. Overused for decades, applied to insurgents, separatists, and state enemies ...

When people first began dying in the dusty hills of Mongbwalu, a gold-mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, ...

As we enter what is likely the worst El Niño event in history, amid geopolitical turmoil that would have put our systems under grave ...

Nyasha Karimakwenda is a feminist researcher on gender-based violence in Africa based at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.

Americans usually think about confrontation with Iran in terms of sanctions, warships, nuclear sites, and diplomatic ultimatums. But an equally important ...

During the 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), attacks on treatment centres, resistance to contact ...