Inside India’s Gen Z Cockroach Janta Movement Inside India’s Gen Z Cockroach Janta Movement
Young Indians are challenging the purge of voter rolls by Modi’s right-wing government. Shrishti Khanna, who was detained by Delhi police while covering the protests, explains.
Oct 20, 2026 / Q&A / Shilpi Chhotray
The Specter of Lepenism Looms Over France’s Social Crisis The Specter of Lepenism Looms Over France’s Social Crisis
Joining forces with the “yellow vests,” youth demonstrators are raising the alarm in a country falling to the far right.
Oct 19, 2026 / Harrison Stetler and June Loper
Why Navi Pillay’s Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize Is So Important Why Navi Pillay’s Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize Is So Important
She believes that human rights and international law are universal principles that must be enforced regardless of violator’s ideology, ethnicity, or geostrategic alignment.
Oct 14, 2026 / Stephen Zunes
France’s Students Won’t Back Down France’s Students Won’t Back Down
Without full-time teachers, temperature-regulated classrooms, or school nurses, French students are turning their grievances into a national movement.
Oct 13, 2026 / StudentNation / Diana Sophia Cordoba
Writing About War as Bombs Fall Writing About War as Bombs Fall
While the Israeli government launched a well-orchestrated offensive of disinformation and hyperbole that would make the illegal permissible in the war on Gaza.
Oct 12, 2026 / Marwan Bishara
Are Europe and Russia Slow-Walking to World War III? Are Europe and Russia Slow-Walking to World War III?
Dangerous rhetoric has been escalating on both sides for some time now.
Oct 7, 2026 / Stephen Crowley
The Year I Taught in a Former Coal Mining Town The Year I Taught in a Former Coal Mining Town
Teaching in the South of France, I learned that equality was just a story teachers told about themselves.
Oct 3, 2026 / Brianna Di Monda
Why French Students Are Revolting Why French Students Are Revolting
France’s education system is stretched to its limits, as student anger kicks off a hot fall protest season.
Oct 2, 2026 / June Loper and Harrison Stetler
Revolution or No Revolution Revolution or No Revolution
Eight years after Armenia’s “Velvet Revolution,” Nikol Pashinyan’s government has deepened the country’s neoliberal trajectory while reorienting Armenia toward the West.
Oct 2, 2026 / Pietro A. Shakarian
Germany and California Make Up an Environmental Superpower Germany and California Make Up an Environmental Superpower
The world’s third- and fourth-largest economies have pledged to environmental protections. Will others follow suit?
Oct 1, 2026 / Mark Hertsgaard