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Responding to widespread popular discontent, Indira Gandhi marshaled the powers of the Constitution to suspend the rule of law. Her actions anticipated the crisis of democracy in India today.

The evolution (or devolution) of journalism from reporting of facts through investigatory exposes to today's spread of Internet chatter.

A modern manifesto to expand the non‑capitalist space bit by bit.

A deep read into the history of the classically liberal Economist, the book under review shows a magazine fronting for empire building, militarism and the triumph of finance capital.

Ralph Ellison's letters make an excellent counterpart to Invisible Man, his great novel of 1952.

This book of case studies of countries across the global North and South examines neoliberalism's impact on legal, corporate, and public governance, and looks at how those ways of governing pose a challenge to democracy.

Reviewing the most recent, fact-based tell-all about the twisted psyche and criminal incompetence of the U.S.'s arch reactionary chief executive.

An architect surveys ancient ideas about making cities with an eye to using them to help tackle current urban design challenges.

Reviewing a volume that amply clarifies the legacy of martyred Pan African historian and militant Walter Rodney, the Guyanese intellectual who emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution.

The 1898 white supremacist riot in Wilmington, North Carolina, which African American writer Charles Chesnutt immortalized in his novel The Marrow of Tradition (1901), is brought to life again in this new historical account.