The recent turn to the language of “digital empire” and “data colonialism” captures aspects of the concentration of technological power, but often mistakes polemic for analysis. Slobodian revisits the...

The circular mass graves were filled with the bones of people and animals, often carefully arranged around a key person at the centre.

Sven Franck, figure reconnue du mouvement politique citoyen Volt Europa, nous a fait sa part de sa candidature en interne à la coprésidence de ce parti transeuropéen  qui colle aux valeurs de Sauvons ...

Sebastian Gorka was counter-terrorism czar during the first year of Trump 1.0, but got shitcanned as swiftly as he had been hired.

“K” is both the shape of immiseration and the permanent war economy.

Bridging the critical concepts of the spatial frontier and sacrifice zones with strategic thought, this article argues that Washington’s recent geopolitical ‘rediscovery’ of the Pacific primarily r...

An estimated two-thirds of the world’s gold in the late Middle Ages may have come from West Africa.

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

Nous publions cet appel signé par des associations et des syndicats en soutien à la mobilisation citoyenne du 28 mars pour une résistance démocratique. ...

“International relations” seems like an oxymoron these days, with diplomacy faint and bombs exploding. Countries that once relied on alliances and negotiation only a decade ago are disregarding the be...

The qualities forged by his intense involvement in the struggle for democratic practices shaped his approach to conflict and strife, wherever it occurred.

The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term. He remarked when asked as much by an interviewer, “There is a period of trans...

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Monica Geingos and Michael Marmot explain why preparations for the next global health crisis must address socioeconomic disparities.

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Monica Geingos and Michael Marmot explain why preparations for the next global health crisis must address socioeconomic disparities.

I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by

le Groenland renfermerait selon un rapport plus de 36 millions de tonnes de terres rares. Certains de ces gisements hébergent également

Lack of transparency at sea is a pervasive worldwide challenge.

When the next pandemic hits, the question won’t just be whether scientists can design a vaccine quickly. We’ll also want to know whether the world can manufacture that vaccine at speed and scale, and ...

YouTube video by Fondation pour la mémoire de l'esclavage

In this blog, we report on an update to our earlier estimates of the potential mortality impacts of the administration’s aid cuts. A similar approach to our original estimates using financial data to ...

REPORTAGE. Entre Côte d’Ivoire et Mali, des chauffeurs anonymes risquent leur vie pour acheminer le carburant indispensable à Bamako, malgré les attaques.

Quinn Slobodian had a post this week about the flaccid (and possibly cynical) imagination of elites who think in terms of “post-neoliberalism”—a term that demarcates recent history in a manner that ma...

To make real progress, antimicrobial communication needs to be grounded in people’s lived experiences.

Le numérique est le nouveau champ de bataille entre Washington et Bruxelles. L’Europe et ses réglementations DMA et DSA sont dans le viseur trumpiste. Il est temps qu’elle se réveille. Il y a quelques...

TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », un collectif de plus de 300 universitaires, parmi lesquels Jean-François Bayart, Judith Butler et Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur, s’élève contre l’annulation de l’évén...

Did you notice a lot of climate lies in your feed recently? Research shows that social media platforms are incentivising and amplifying climate disinformation - to chase ad revenue.