World
Measure Your Moves: Wearable Fitness Steps Up
“Health technology has the potential to democratize health and health care in a lot of ways…”
“Keep it all in the ground”: Canadians Reckon with Dirty Energy and Hypocritical Policies
Canada is home to delicate ecosystems that are doubly vulnerable: The oil and natural gas industries have preyed on the tundra for decades—a region already sensitive to the effects of global warming.
Finding Santiago in a Post-Truth World: A Mysterious Death Reveals a Divided Argentina
“We are living in a post-truth world where you believe what you want to believe.”
An Interview With Jaha Dukureh, Anti-Female Genital Mutilation Activist from Gambia
It just shows the value society as a whole places on women. You look at how sexual violence is being neglected.
Modern Slavery in Libya: One Battle in the War Against Forced Labor
“The United States does not, generally, punish employers who enslave their workers.”
Film Review: The Wedding Banquet
A gay landlord from Taiwan must marry his tenant in order to hide his homosexuality from his traditional parents.
Polish Independence Day: The Far Right and Its Female Opposition
As families across America gathered around their kitchen tables to give thanks this past month, a very different national holiday was playing out on the streets of Poland.
An Interview With Abdul-Rehman Malik: Storyteller, Activist, and Cultural Organizer
The Politic sits down for a conversation with London-based Abdul-Rehman Malik, a journalist who works at the intersection of faith, storytelling and social justice.