The trial of Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala has begun in Paris over atrocities committed during the Second Congo War.

In Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World (Monthly Review Press, 2025), Steve Cushion lays bare the ...

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.

Karnish takes literally what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote “all men are created equal.” But to assume that the ...

Ex-Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala has begun a hunger strike to protest his trial in France. The trial began this week ...

The two young men joined the military to serve in WWII, but before leaving they made a pact. Find out what happened when the war ended.

Paul Kingsnorth is a novelist and a critic, an environmental activist and a convert to Eastern Orthodoxy. His new book is ...

What would these young American Jews have done had they been attending that peace festival in Israel on October 7th, and ...

The modern world has been transformed by inventions from the electric motor to penicillin. Is the mass-produced gun the most ...

Israel, meanwhile, reopens its embassy in Lusaka as a hub of practical innovation—agriculture, health, education—fueling ...

At her home north of Glasgow, author, broadcaster and journalist Sally Magnusson is worried about the signal as she picks up ...

St. Helena Island hosted its annual Heritage Day parade, a celebration of Gullah-Geechee culture. The festival took place a ...