race

The killing of a coloured teenager in Johannesburg exposed the fraught state of race relations in South Africa—and how the racial hierarchies created by apartheid continue to plague the country.

Westerners are overrepresented in senior positions across the world body.

Justifying colonialism’s atrocities plays a toxic role in politics today.

Pacifist injunctions obliterate the history of, and need for, armed protection.

Why partition may be the only solution to Lebanon’s woes, what the bestselling book “Caste” ignores about India’s caste structure, and Britain’s distraction from its real economic problems.

Fidel Castro claimed the revolution eliminated racial discrimination, but it is alive and well.

The celebrated philosopher was an unapologetic racist and anti-Semite who inspired Hitler. The recent removal of his statue in Paris was long overdue.

Technology in policing might appear more benign than rogue cops or racist judges, but a look at global trends gives pause.

“Confinada” critiques the disproportionate toll the coronavirus has taken on poor and Black Brazilians—on top of ongoing systemic inequality in the country.

Italian forces used chemical weapons and committed war crimes in Africa—but the country’s sordid history is not taught in schools and is rarely discussed by politicians or intellectuals.

Communities around the world have shifted to a lighter policing model to reduce tensions and curb violence.

Apesar de constituírem mais de metade da população, pessoas negras continuam lutando pelo seu direito de viver.

Afro-Brazilians make up over half of the country’s population, but they are still fighting for their right to live.

As talk turns once again to Russia’s role in stoking racial tensions ahead of an election, the United States would be wise to look within.

The country is upending its national identity by finally starting to acknowledge race.

America’s founders missed an opportunity to abolish slavery, attacks on the press are increasing in democratic societies, and Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran isn’t working.

Ignoring the central role of race and colonialism in world affairs precludes an accurate understanding of the modern state system.

They swept the issue under the rug, and even Thomas Jefferson realized that civil war was inevitable before he died on July 4, 1826. But history could have taken a different direction.

Well-meaning reforms are often blocked and rarely succeed. But there are ways to make them stick.

How the physical environment affects our experience of difference.