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Pakistan and India, two nuclear-armed rivals in South Asia, are once again on the brink of a catastrophe. On Wednesday, India launched missile strikes in nine different districts across Pakistan, killing at least thirty-one civilians,...

Texas is considering a sweeping set of legislative changes that would erode First Amendment protections, emboldening corporations and powerful individuals to use retaliatory lawsuits to silence their critics. If passed, the bills could unleash a...

Joan C. Williams Yes, we won that right by not contradicting, not ignoring, but rather relying on core middle-status values. My colleague Matt Coles, who led the American Civil Liberties Union’s gay marriage initiative, held...

Friedrich Merz’s new coalition government was supposed to herald an era of unity and responsible governance. Built on a pact between Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), it follows years of strife...

A police crackdown on students protesting Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. An attorney general throwing the book at the antiwar activists. Reckless accusations of antisemitism against anyone who disagrees. Protesters’ doors kicked down and raided...

Florence Pugh is so terrific in Thunderbolts* that she carries an entire Marvel movie on her shoulders. She manages this throughout the otherwise largely cumbersome Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) proceedings all while making you laugh...

A massive aviation industry clearinghouse that processes data for twelve billion passenger flights per year is selling that information to the Trump administration amid the White House’s new immigration crackdown, according to documents reviewed by the...

Massimo Faggioli He has been elected by the majority of cardinals who were appointed by Francis. His election is not a conservative reaction against Pope Francis, but neither is Leo XIV a Francis II. Some...

The English local elections last week were disastrous for the Labour and Conservative Parties, both of which lost the vast majority of seats they were defending. The Reform party of Nigel Farage made big gains,...

Commemorations are interesting mirrors for the hegemonic narratives of the past, which do not necessarily correspond with popular historical consciousness. This is especially true for global anniversaries like May 8, 1945. For decades, the West...

Firsthand accounts of the wartime Nazi occupation of France stress the messy, haphazard nature of the resistance. The groups that emerged in the chaotic circumstances following the French defeat of 1940 were fragmented and divided....

On May 4, 1945, British field marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, almost exactly five years after Nazi Germany invaded the country. Around a quarter of...