human rights

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.

Palm oil is in everything, but it is also enmeshed in global supply chains that rely on brutal working conditions and the destruction of the planet.

In the 1980s, Cold War tensions led to thousands of Cubans languishing in American prisons, unable to be released or repatriated. Uprisings followed.

Fifty years after his father declared martial law, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was welcomed in New York.

Liberal Protestants built a global elite in the 20th century. Its fracturing holds a caution for evangelicals today.

Fifty years ago in 1972, as spring faded and summer arrived in late June, America (and the world) was a vastly different place.

For years, the idea seemed immoral and dangerous.

Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the United States to defend the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

John Stuart Mill was an unusual man who lived an extraordinary life devoted to a set of problems that once again dominate political thought in the 21st century.

U.S.-China relations have evolved from tense standoffs to a complex mix of intensifying diplomacy, growing international rivalry, and increasingly intertwined economies.

The US’s history of evasiveness around wartime atrocities undermines the very institution that could bring Putin to justice: the International Criminal Court.

The struggle for progress is always two steps forward and at least one step back.

"The Origins of Totalitarianism" has much to say about a world of rising authoritarianism.

How Washington outsources its dirty work.

An alliance between Jewish activists and congressional neocons made Soviet Jewry a key issue in superpower relations—and reshaped American Jewish politics.

The charges, while provocative, offer a framework to reckon with systemic racial injustice — past and present.

Four decades on, the perpetrators of the El Mozote massacre have not been held to account.

A conversation with two journalists who were among the first to uncover evidence of a deadly rampage.

A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.

The human rights activist and former sharecropper once said that “you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.”