From Elad Nehorai’s Newsletter Today marks the anniversary of the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust and the worst mass killing of Israeli
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From Himal Southasian Fraser Sugden’s ‘Land, Labour and Agrarian Change in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh’ explains why decades of political upheaval have failed to break the hold
From Searchlight Magazine Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right Rassemblement National (RN), is facing allegations that he made a series of antisemitic statements in private
From Africans in China When I first put together a list of SinoAfrica documentaries in 2016, the field was still relatively small. There were already
On ‘In Bed With the Right‘ hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about
Paraguay often doesn’t get a lot of attention outside of South America, but that’s been changing in recent years — especially for members of the
Leading Turkish LGBTQ activist Yildiz Tar explains why Turkey’s authoritarian government is escalating repression of their community. The crackdown has less to do with public
From Sana’a Center Perspectives and Analysis Fighting in western Taiz and southern Hudaydah rapidly escalated last week, resulting in the collapse of government lines and
From Liberties The war in Sudan entered its fourth year on April 15, 2026, one chapter in a long series that has spanned decades. This
A LabourStart campaign in partnership with the International Trade Union Confederation, Building and Wood Workers’ International, the Education International, the International Federation of Journalists and
From The Forge Cesar Chavez’s sexual assaults were horrific. Sexism in organizing persists and requires the attention of leaders. I’ll present stories and analysis of
From +972 Magazine Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.
The Caste Pod is a podcast hosted by Ajantha Subramanian, historical anthropologist whose work addresses the historicity and political economy of caste. Ajantha is Professor
From Kalam Weekly It is 5 am on August 26 — just before dawn. My friends and I load our rucksacks into the trunk of
From +972 Magazine Celebrated as proof of Israeli liberalism and vilified by the right, Palestinian physicians are in fact being quietly shut out of the
From Bond & Grace In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in jail after his arrest for peacefully protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
This is a recording of a New Jewish Narrative webinar from August 26, 2026, the first part in our Israeli Election Webinar Series. Most of
Read on Mina’s Substack Mina Khanlarzadeh (Ph.D., Columbia University; B.Sc., Physics, Sharif University of Technology) is a historian whose interdisciplinary work engages global political thought,
From New Lines Magazine The former Iranian president’s relationship with Mohammad Ali Ramin sheds light on his personality and transformations, and the path that may
Chenchen Zhang, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), 272 pp. With commentary on the emergence of a
From Global Project Against Hate and Extremism Key Takeaways [READ THE REST] Launched in 2020, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) was founded
From The Republic As Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo prepares to hand power to his son, Teodorín, a gas boom and fears of Chinese expansion are
The ‘Lines on a Map’ podcast focuses on current developments in the Middle East and every week speaks to a journalist writing for The Amargi.
On ‘In Bed With the Right‘ hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about
As Israel prepares for elections on Oct. 27, the past four years demand a reckoning: what has prolonged far-right rule changed in law, policy, and
From Phenomenal World The election of Keiko Fujimori empowers an extractive growth regime On July 28, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of Peru’s former dictator Alberto Fujimori,
From New Lines Magazine From the oil terminals of Yanbu to the luxury resorts rising along the Red Sea, a firsthand look at how the
The Caste Pod is a podcast hosted by Ajantha Subramanian, historical anthropologist whose work addresses the historicity and political economy of caste. Ajantha is Professor
From Himal Southasian Manipur’s challenge is not its ethnic diversity but the absence of a shared political framework in which Meiteis, Kukis, Nagas and others
The ‘Lines on a Map’ podcast focuses on current developments in the Middle East and every week speaks to a journalist writing for The Amargi.
From Himal Southasian As right-wing Islamist extremist groups gain in Bangladesh, feminists are fighting for women’s rights and gender equality amid disappointment with the Bangladesh
From Himal Southasian India’s Gen Z and the Cockroach Janta Party have transformed outrage over exam paper leaks into a nationwide protest movement challenging Narendra
From +972 Magazine Core disputes over how to utilize political power may not be resolved in time to form a new Joint List — and
From New Lines Magazine If the scenes emerging from Delhi reveal anything, it is that fear has begun to loosen its grip on a significant
Read on Mina’s Substack Mina Khanlarzadeh (Ph.D., Columbia University; B.Sc., Physics, Sharif University of Technology) is a historian whose interdisciplinary work engages global political thought,
From New Lines Magazine In late February 2022, a fistfight broke out in Kibbutz Lotan, a small eco-community in southern Israel. Dima, an immigrant from
From Liberal Currents Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (New York: Random House, 2026), 416 pp.
From Arab Reform Initiative Nothing seems to protect any woman from being targeted, not even their “revolutionary status”. Among those attacked are pioneering revolutionary figures
From The Debrief with Debra Shushan An official date of October 27 has been set for Israel’s crucial parliamentary election. While the current governing coalition
From Himal Southasian Behind the language of protection, India’s new transgender law advances a Hindu nationalist project that recasts gender variance through state classification while
Read on Mina’s Substack Mina Khanlarzadeh (Ph.D., Columbia University; B.Sc., Physics, Sharif University of Technology) is a historian whose interdisciplinary work engages global political thought,
From Minority Africa From a 17th-century Angolan queen to a Ghanaian musician in exile, this June, we’re revisiting some of the lives that shaped and
From Himal Southasian A top monk’s alleged rape of a child threatens to unmask the Sri Lankan sangha, but its moral decay is rooted in
Read on Mina’s Substack Mina Khanlarzadeh (Ph.D., Columbia University; B.Sc., Physics, Sharif University of Technology) is a historian whose interdisciplinary work engages global political thought,
In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, Eszter Kismődi and Neil Datta, Executive Director and founder of the European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive
Transcript of episode 76 of the weekly El Faro English podcast, Central America in Minutes. In Nicaragua, the U.S. sanctions more than 100 officials after the
From MAJIC – Memories, Arts and Social Justice in Central Asia In 2024, Kyrgyzstan adopted amendments to its “child protection law,” restricting the dissemination of
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:01:42 Speaker intro 00:03:36 Democratic backsliding and/in India 00:24:16 Q&A I (political democracy, substantive democracy) 00:30:09 Populist religious nationalism, ethnic democracy and fascist tendencies 01:05:14 Q&A II (Hindu identity, Hindutva, caste, fascism, populism) 01:37:00 Caste, class, the Left and democracy in India
From Positions: Politics Is China abolishing the hukou? Since the PRC’s State Council announced a new guideline on public services on May 18, 2026 this question
From Phenomenal World China’s class politics after 1989 In April 1989, a series of explosive pro-democracy movements erupted across China. These movements and their political
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From Equator Generations of organisers and dissidents have kept the Iranian struggle alive A few hours after I was born, my mother and I were
From Phenomenal World The recolonization of Venezuela As US planes, helicopters, and special forces stormed Caracas in the early hours of January 3, Vice President
For generations, Jewish-Israeli children have been brought up in an education system where Palestinians rarely appear as Palestinians. Instead, they are “Arabs”, “enemies”, and a
Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the Christian nationalist youth organization now run by Erika Kirk, has announced the speakers for its 2026 Women’s Leadership Summit, TPUSA’s
From Dissent Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy theory, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:03:59 Speaker introduction 00:06:55 Recap of the main points of Dahlia Scheindlin’s article (“Everybody Loses…”) 00:14:27 Propositions on the background of
Excerpt from an article published in Haaretz on 15 May 2026 The vast majority of responses to Nicholas Kristof’s column about sexual abuse of Palestinian
From the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism Anti-feminist conspiracism grew with the successes of feminist movement and threats to cisgender men’s entrenched dominance and
From the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism Despite extensive misogynist content in the two shooters’ manifestos, discussion of the intersection of male supremacism with
From Himal Southasian The Bharatiya Janata Party’s unprecedented electoral victory in West Bengal exposes the deep Bengali roots of Hindu nationalism and shatters the myth
From Merion West Under President Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s longstanding reputation for relative stability is over, writes teacher Tony Njoroge. Journalists are being arrested, opposition
From Tempest Somayeh Rostampour argues that opponents of U.S.and Israeli aggression in Iran must move beyond campism—or we will not succeed in rebuilding a genuinely emancipatory
Reform UK has just swept councils across England and made significant gains in devolved elections. How did a party of the radical right get here
From +972 Magazine A garbage truck’s tailgate opens slowly. Inside, around 70 Palestinian men are packed tightly together, their eyes struggling to adjust to the
From Equator Gavin Jacobson: To what extent is the current offensive in Mali unprecedented? Rahmane Idrissa: The violence itself isn’t unprecedented by the standards of
The ‘In Bed with the Right’ podcast, hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan, examines right-wing ideas about sex and gender. In recent months, the call
From royal court legends to a 17th-century deity, gay people have been part of Chinese life and literature for millennia. Since the 1990s, legal reforms
The Caste Pod is a podcast hosted by Ajantha Subramanian, historical anthropologist whose work addresses the historicity and political economy of caste. Ajantha is Professor
From the LPE Blog It has often been noted that Elon Musk and Henry Ford have much in common. Both were hailed as technological geniuses
From Futures of Difference Sociologist Cecilia Menjívar shows that violence against women is not a matter of individual acts but a product of converging structural
Danny and Derek welcome to the show writer Paul Heideman to talk about the transformation of the Republican Party from the main party of business
Micheal Nelson Byaruhanga on Uganda’s costly vote, shutdowns and Museveni’s 50 years rule. From Chartist. With 24 hours left to the presidential polling day in Uganda,
The Caste Pod is a podcast hosted by Ajantha Subramanian, historical anthropologist whose work addresses the historicity and political economy of caste. Ajantha is Professor
00:00:00 Introduction of the speakers 00:02:38 Introduction to today’s webinar 00:04:20 Germany, racism, colonialism 00:09:27 Extermination and extraction 00:12:04 German-Russian inter-imperiality 00:16:20 The “German-ness Contract”
In this episode of Democracy for Sale, Peter Geoghegan is joined by Professor Kim Lane Scheppele to unpick the high-stakes election in Hungary. With Orbán
Read on Mina’s Substack Mina Khanlarzadeh (Ph.D., Columbia University; B.Sc., Physics, Sharif University of Technology) is a historian whose interdisciplinary work engages global political thought,
In anticipation of a conservative winning the 2024 presidential election, the well-funded far-right movement openly outlined its vision for an “ideal” America in its Project
From Liberal Currents Toby Buckle’s “It Wasn’t Fascism All Along” is exactly the kind of argument worth engaging directly. It is a serious argument that
Ho-fung Hung, The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 336 pp. “The contempt and naive idealization of China
Read on Mina’s Substack Mina Khanlarzadeh (Ph.D., Columbia University; B.Sc., Physics, Sharif University of Technology) is a historian whose interdisciplinary work engages global political thought,
From the London Review of Books The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, met in February with Raúl Castro’s grandson at a Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
From Mail & Guardian, South Africa Any effort to rebuild the left must begin with firm principles. Opposition to xenophobia cannot be deferred; it must
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:04:35 Oksana Dutchak introduces herself and her research 00:07:22 Core concepts of feminist social reproduction theory 00:29:39 Q&A: hierarchies of care
From Africa is a Country Why does the anti-Black racism of the US president have defenders in Africa’s largest Black nation? Trump’s posting of racist
From Feminism in India The Transgender Amendment Bill 2026 was passed in the Rajya Sabha on 25th March 2026. The bill was earlier passed by
This month, China’s National People’s Congress held its annual meeting and passed a new law on ‘promoting ethnic unity and progress’. The legislation further codifies
From Rest of World Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech’s AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital
Observers from the MAGA base to the Iranian regime itself have converged on the idea that this is not the foreign policy the slogan promised.
From The Hill A dangerous chain reaction is underway and it may only be beginning. In the wake of U.S. and Israeli military strikes on
For more than a year, Nexus has been tracking the connection between the “manosphere” and antisemitism. A new Netflix documentary, Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere,
From New Lines Magazine Iran helped the Assad regime crush unarmed protests with staggering violence starting 2011. Now, it has turned those same tactics on
The Caste Pod is a podcast hosted by Ajantha Subramanian, historical anthropologist whose work addresses the historicity and political economy of caste. Ajantha is Professor
From Conviction The draft African charter on family sovereignty and values is presented as cultural protection, but critics warn it functions as a coordinated anti
On this episode of In Theory, Durba Mitra returns to the podcast to talk with Disha Karnad Jani about her new book, The Future That
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