Redressing survivors of egregious human rights violations remains one of the intractable issues of our times. Based on interviews with advocates working to remedy these injustices, this article exa...

What will it mean for Catholicism and the world to have the first Augustinian Pope? What were the teachings of Augustine of Hippo, who inspires the Order of Augustine? And what are Pope Leo's theologi...

OPINION: Why does New Zealand have one of the highest proportions of threatened native species in the world?

The impacts of US politics on New Zealand will be examined by former UK High Commissioner Phil Goff and University of Auckland experts on 10 April.

The Trump administration has canceled funding used to coordinate the National Climate Assessment, a major, congressionally mandated U.S. climate change report produced through the U.S. Global Change R...

A Long History of Universal Jurisdiction in US Policy: The Quest to Redress Survivors of Egregious Human Rights Violations - Volume 37 Issue 2

Elon Musk argued that he wasn’t actually cutting funding for cancer research.

What exactly is the political, physical, and existential meanings of borders? Borders are human creations but often define state and national boundaries and even identities. They define belonging to a...

ALT: a light bulb with the words " i have an idea " above it

The U.S.D.A. said Thursday that it had canceled its subscriptions to Politico Pro, a news and information service aimed at policy professionals.

I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

Seasoned members of the nation’s top law-enforcement agency are bracing for a mass expulsion as the president roots out anyone he sees as disloyal to him.

The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

There is a well-established pattern from the first Trump presidency that the world temporarily forgot during the Biden years and is now rediscovering. Trump will pick up provocative ideas from people in his orbit, will repeat them out loud, people will freak out, causing Trump to double down, and then the commenting classes will write articles saying, "Well, you know, actually the idea isn't that dumb." But the idea does indeed remain fundamentally unsound.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of climate change, nuclear war and the misuse of artificial intelligence.

What to do when the Constitution proves "very, very hard" to enforce?

In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. Congress sho...

ALT: barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face and asking why tho ?

Staff members tasked with overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts were to be placed on paid administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday.

DOGE is operating in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and must comply with transparency, ethics and other requirements or cease operations, according to a lawsuit brought by CREW and pa...