Politics

Afghan families rest on the ground after being deported from Iran at the Islam Qala crossing in Afghanistan.
By
Zahra Nader
Nearly a million Afghan refugees have been deported from Iran in 2025 – many after brutal detention and abuse – to face uncertainty and a humanitarian crisis in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
Tsering Döndrup’s The Red Wind Howls, his most politically charged work, unfolds against the backdrop of Tibet’s history of erasure and violence – a legacy Tsering Döndrup dares to confront head-on in all his writing.
The uncompromising writer’s English translator reflects on how Tsering Döndrup’s banned ‘The Red Wind Howls’ reckons with China’s erasure of Tibet’s suffering while reclaiming Tibetans’ right to criti ...
Collage showing WHO logo, pharma, pills and tablets, a doctor's stethoscope and protesters, for a story on how Trump's aid cuts have broken global health systems
By
Vidya Krishnan
US and Western aid cuts expose global health’s rotten core and leave millions facing preventable deaths from HIV, TB, malaria and more – but the past and the present offer lessons in how to fight back
A 2008 march of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the main force behind the rise of Hindu nationalism in India
By
Jason Stanley
India’s fascist turn under Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist rule has multiple parallels with global fascist tactics and history, including in Nazi Germany and Trump’s United States
Black and white photo of Taraki Sivaram. Dharmaretnam Sivaram was known for his column on politics in northern Sri Lanka. He was abducted and killed in 2005.
Sri Lankan journalists are calling on the government to expedite stalled investigations into the unsolved abduction and murder of Tamil journalist Dharmeratnam “Taraki” Sivaram
Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, dressed in military uniform (left) meeting Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi dressed in a white shirt and black suit (right). Both are seated on either side of a table with a photo of Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah and a flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the background are large flags of Pakistan and the Pakistan Armed Forces.
The United States and Donald Trump are courting the Pakistan military as an ally in a war against Iran, but Pakistan’s present problems and hard lessons from the US-led invasion of Afghanistan should ...
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