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 ...

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

Rosa Parks took a seat to take a stand. These days, prejudice pushes people into bus seats, not out of them. The descendants ...

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

As an older man, I’ve learned to fully embrace joy in whatever form it chooses to reveal itself. To caress the fleeting ...

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

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

As Donald Trump threatens to take over Canada he demands Ottawa increase military spending. The apparent contradiction is ...

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

Jimmy Carter’s body has been interned after a century of energetic engagement on the earth’s surface. But his legacy remains ...

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