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A state built on Black repression and local violence was smugly coded as a mature democracy.

After the Capitol attack, the U.S. government needs to recognize racist extremists as a national security risk and create a high-level counterterrorism czar to disrupt their financing and dismantle their networks.

The best way for Biden and Harris to build better partnerships abroad is to get America’s own house in order—and that begins with human rights.

The Trojan horse of racism put democracy’s enemies inside its walls.

An opportunity for Biden, populism’s online fires, and the need for transitional justice.

The crisis at the U.S. Capitol shows that Americans lack a shared understanding of their political past and present. Transitional justice can help.

From the pandemic to Black Lives Matter and the U.S. election, five articles from the year that changed everything.

With much of the world in lockdown again, here are some of this year’s highlights to help you pass the time.

Black Lives Matter has sparked change among a younger generation.

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.