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An aerial view of the BASECO Compound, Manila's largest slum area, on April 3, 2020 in Manila, Philippines.

Megacities Are Not the Future. They Are Inhumane and Unsustainable

The pandemic has sharply highlighted the inequality that defines big cities...

The pandemic has sharply highlighted the inequality that defines big cities and emphasized their unsustainability

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook, listens during a meeting at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. on Sept. 27, 2015.

Facebook Wanted to Be a Force for Good in Myanmar. Now It Is Rejecting a Request to Help With a Genocide Investigation

Facebook is rejecting a request to help with a genocide investigation in My...

Facebook is rejecting a request to help with a genocide investigation in Myanmar. Congress needs to intervene

An Indian paramilitary trooper stands guard in front of his bunker in the city of Srinagar in Indian administered-Kashmir on August 5, 2020.

A Year After India Revoked Kashmir's Special Status, Kashmiris Worry About a Demographic Shift

India’s government has made full use of the COVID-19 lockdown by passing th...

India’s government has made full use of the COVID-19 lockdown by passing the domicile rule, which has caused alarm because of its potential to change the demography of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, writes human rights activist Khurram Parvez.

Ban Ki-moon (L) and his wife Yoo Soon-taek (R) lay a wreath at the monument of bombing centre in Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 5, 2010, when Ban was United Nations Secretary-General

To Honor the Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 Years on, We Must Lay Down Our Nuclear Weapons

This should have been the year we made progress in giving up nuclear arms. ...

This should have been the year we made progress in giving up nuclear arms. It's not too late for the U.S. and Russia to take action

Rohingya refugees watch televised proceedings at the U.N.'s International Court of Justice from a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Dec. 12, 2019.

For Myanmar's Elections to Be Free and Fair Rohingya Must Get the Right to Vote

Governments around the world overlooked Rohingya disenfranchisement in 2015...

Governments around the world overlooked Rohingya disenfranchisement in 2015. They must not make the same mistake twice

Members of the Oromo community march in protest after the death of musician and revolutionary Hachalu Hundessa on July 8, 2020 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

How the Murder of an Ethiopian Singer Triggered an Uprising Against a Disintegrating Democracy

The songs of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa spoke to the country's grassroots about h...

The songs of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa spoke to the country's grassroots about historical injustices

People hold posters that read: Freedom for Khabarovsk region's governor Sergei Furgal during a protest in Khabarovsk, Russia on July 18

Protests Over the Arrest of Governor Sergei Furgal Show Populism Is Alive in Russia—and May Create Real Problems for Putin

From his perch atop the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin has placed himself at the c...

From his perch atop the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin has placed himself at the center of Russian politics for the foreseeable future, and anti-Western words and deeds have surely helped him get there. But the story...