People in Global South countries have agency. They can and do understand the realities of their material conditions.

From Weinstein to Epstein to Diddy to R. Kelly, the under-your-nose reality of human sex-trafficking—a.k.a., modern ...

Perhaps you are aware there is a new movie out titled A Complete Unknown. It addresses the first five years, or thereabouts, ...

Before even taking office, Trump has conjured grotesque visions of what he once called the dreams of a “unified Reich.” His ...

While the west subsidizes carnage in Gaza and Ukraine, the east does the opposite. For instance, one potential far east ...

This is the eighth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time ...

I find joy in sorrow and sorrow is greater than laughter. An angel is not far from those who are sad and illness can ...

Towards the end of Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel, It Can’t Happen Here, the fascist dictatorship which has come to power in the ...

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.” ...

Jimmy Carter was my last president. I believe that is true for progressive civic groups, too. He actively opened up the ...

Apparently unbeknownst to my Republican friends, the effort to cut ‘government waste’ has a long, bipartisan, history in the ...

Almost all novels, from Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to One Hundred Years of Solitude and ...