World
Searching for Truth in Crisis: A Conversation with Vice’s Isobel Yeung
“I think there will always be a need for finding out the truth, and now more so than ever.”
Vaccine Nationalism: For the Few, Not the Many
Leaders of rich and powerful nations may find a country-first perspective viscerally appealing, but it remains to be seen whether the benefits of isolationism during a pandemic will outweigh its latent disadvantages.
Not Your Father’s Colonies: The Changing Face of Modern Colonialism
Colonialism’s still here, but it’s not what it used to be—and the countries keeping us focused on the old definition, and old issues, are the same ones whose actions we should really be keeping a careful eye on today.
Interested in Understanding Iran? Watch AppleTV’s “Tehran”
To understand the existential issues facing Iran, you could do worse than to catch the new AppleTV show “Tehran.”
#EndSARS and #BLM: Exploring Police Brutality’s Colonial Legacy
When viewed together, these campaigns raise questions about the role of policing in societies, permanently scarred by the horrors of their own past.
Strength of a City: A Conversation with Mayor John Tory
“Run 100 miles an hour the other way from the kind of bitterness, polarization and division that we see happening in many places of the world”
The Right to Dignity: A Feminist Revolution in Europe’s Last Dictatorship
It is in the flags hanging from apartment windows and the stripes of red and white on crosswalks and doorways that this revolution lives on.
Scorched Earth: On Bolsonaro’s One-Man Crusade Against Environmentalism in Brazil
“It’s a tragedy that biomes so important for life on the planet are under the control of people so irresponsibly uncommitted to it.”