Are you willing to be killed for your own government’s sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed, your child hit by shrapnel, because of the policies of the latest president? If that seems unfair, it is unfair to anyone, anywhere.
Interview with James M. Acton, the chair and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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As the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Francis unified people of different generations. He encouraged genuine love for humans—”Todo, todo, todo.” He spoke out against war, militarism, and the ravages of climate change.
Breach of Kakhovka Dam now threatens seasonal floods thick with toxic heavy metals, other pollutants
In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic dictatorship on the Congolese people.
Healthcare facilities have come under heavy attack in the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese National Army
In Geneffa Jahan's poem "Waiting" the speaker awaits her death as if it were an abusive lover.
A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion.
Precise as a haiku, with the force of a hand grenade, poet Lola Haskins offers a terrifying glimpse of the war in Gaza.
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