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The Real AI Threat Is Already Here The Real AI Threat Is Already Here

Never mind some future apocalypse—AI is being used right now to cause enormous suffering.

Column / Jeet Heer

Andy Burnham’s Speech to the Labour Party Conference Could Be the Start of a Positive Social-Democratic Politics Andy Burnham’s Speech to the Labour Party Conference Could Be the Start of a Positive Social-Democratic Politics

But the autumn budget to be released at the end of October will offer needed details.

Marcus Barnett

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.

Stephen Zunes

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South African lawyer Navenethem “Navi” Pillay speaks in Nuremberg following the announcement that she will be awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

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.

Stephen Zunes

People gather on and around the statue in the center of the Place de la République at the end of a demonstration part of a nationwide day of actions called by high-school students who have been demanding better learning conditions in protests punctuated by violent confrontations in Paris.

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.

StudentNation / Diana Sophia Cordoba

A man walks past buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes on October 7, 2026, in Gaza City.

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.

Marwan Bishara

Africa

Cities as Climate Labs: Inside the U20 Summit

Cities as Climate Labs: Inside the U20 Summit Cities as Climate Labs: Inside the U20 Summit

Mayors at the Urban 20 Summit worked across borders to confront the climate crisis at the local level.

StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

Tens of thousands of Moroccans and others entered the small city of Ceuta, Spain, on Thursday, July 30, 2026.

The Real Story Behind the Human Wave That Entered Ceuta The Real Story Behind the Human Wave That Entered Ceuta

Did the Israeli and US hostility toward Spain embolden Morocco to think it could get away with creating a border control crisis?

Stephen Zunes

Cholera infected patients receive treatment in the cholera isolation centre at the refugee camps of western Sudan, in Tawila city in Darfur.

At 3 Years of War, North Darfur Is an Open Graveyard At 3 Years of War, North Darfur Is an Open Graveyard

As Rapid Support Forces cut off the flow of resources to western Sudan, hunger, cholera, and violence abound.

StudentNation / Jaanu Ramesh

Asia

Turkish police detain dozens of LGBTQ rights protesters in Ankara, on September 15, 2026.

Turkey Is Brutally Oppressing Queer People. Here’s What You Need to Know. Turkey Is Brutally Oppressing Queer People. Here’s What You Need to Know.

The government’s sweeping crackdown on the LGBTQ community is an escalation of a decades-long pattern.

Levent Pişkin

US President Donald Trump joins hands with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (left) and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (right) at the White House on August 8, 2025, in Washington, DC.

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.

Pietro A. Shakarian

Sohei Kamiya, leader of Japan’s Sanseito party, delivers a speech at a Sanseito street rally in Tokyo.

Japan’s Far Right Is Courting Young Voters Japan’s Far Right Is Courting Young Voters

Sanseitō has attracted young voters through a robust social-media strategy, Charlie Kirk–like public speaking events, and anti-establishment messaging.

StudentNation / Sena Chang

Latin America

Journalist Meaghan Beatley on Latin America’s Feminist Resistance

Journalist Meaghan Beatley on Latin America’s Feminist Resistance Journalist Meaghan Beatley on Latin America’s Feminist Resistance

A conversation with the author of Sex and Dissent about what American feminists can learn from the Green Wave movement.

Q&A / Nicole Froio

Cities as Climate Labs: Inside the U20 Summit

Cities as Climate Labs: Inside the U20 Summit Cities as Climate Labs: Inside the U20 Summit

Mayors at the Urban 20 Summit worked across borders to confront the climate crisis at the local level.

StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

Flowers adorn the memorial plaque at the site where Orlandlo Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt were killed in Washington, DC, by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Pinochet: The Verdict of History in the Letelier-Moffitt Case Pinochet: The Verdict of History in the Letelier-Moffitt Case

An act of international terrorism on the streets of Washington, DC, still reverberates 50 years later.

Peter Kornbluh

Middle East

Flames rise above a state-owned Aramco oil facility attacked under unclear circumstances outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, earlier this month.

The Saudi Phase of the Iran War Signals More Chaos to Come The Saudi Phase of the Iran War Signals More Chaos to Come

The conflict that Donald Trump has repeatedly proclaimed an unequivocal American victory keeps spiraling out of control.

David Faris

A man walks past buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes on October 7, 2026, in Gaza City.

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.

Marwan Bishara

Turkish police detain dozens of LGBTQ rights protesters in Ankara, on September 15, 2026.

Turkey Is Brutally Oppressing Queer People. Here’s What You Need to Know. Turkey Is Brutally Oppressing Queer People. Here’s What You Need to Know.

The government’s sweeping crackdown on the LGBTQ community is an escalation of a decades-long pattern.

Levent Pişkin

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“Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth speaks during a press briefing on the temporary ceasefire with Iran at the Pentagon on April 8, 2026. in Arlington, Virginia.

Pete Hegseth’s High-Tech Barbarism Pete Hegseth’s High-Tech Barbarism

In livestreaming Nidal Hasan’s execution, the secretary of war is marking his territory in the snuff movie business—and radicalizing people along the way.

Oct 12, 2026 / Sasha Abramsky

Canadian-Haitian novelist Thelyson Orelien (L) at the

The Anatomy of a Literary Scandal The Anatomy of a Literary Scandal

The pillorying of Canadian-Haitian novelist Thélyson Orélien, accused of using AI to write his new novel, is the latest in a chaotic year for French publishing.

Oct 12, 2026 / June Loper and Harrison Stetler

Presidential candidate for the Brazilian Liberal Party Flavio Bolsonaro during a press conference with representatives that declared their support for the runoff election in Brasília, on October 7, 2026.

War Breaks in Tigray, Brazil Holds Elections, Houthi/Ansar Allah Attacks Hit a Saudi Airport War Breaks in Tigray, Brazil Holds Elections, Houthi/Ansar Allah Attacks Hit a Saudi Airport

Derek has returned, but he keeps trying to get Danny to go to some seminar led by a charismatic “mentor” he encountered in his travels.

Oct 9, 2026 / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison

Mike Huckabee delivers a press statement during his visit to the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestine, on September 5, 2026

Does America First Really Mean Israel First? Does America First Really Mean Israel First?

Mike Huckabee’s aide shows how an extremist agenda dominates Trump’s Middle East policy.

Oct 9, 2026 / Jeet Heer

The fraternity house at the center of a rape allegation stands on the campus of Cornell University on September 30, 2026, in Ithaca, New York.

The Violent, Militaristic Ideology that Undergirds Fraternities  The Violent, Militaristic Ideology that Undergirds Fraternities 

The first major hazing scandal in American history occurred at West Point in 1900. There are eerie parallels to what happened at Cornell’s Chi Phi.

Oct 9, 2026 / Jasper Craven

Anti-riot police officers face protesting students outside the secondary school Le Corbusier in northern Paris on October 1, 2026.

Has France’s Government Overplayed Its Hand? Has France’s Government Overplayed Its Hand?

The speed and scale of the police response mark a dangerous new normal.

Oct 8, 2026 / June Loper and Harrison Stetler

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