At the beginning of last week, I received some devastating news: the President’s Office at Freie Universität Berlin has proposed eliminating the third professorship at the Institute of Social and Cult...

Instead of collective and confrontational resistance, we now celebrate individual women’s achievements in capitalist, neoliberal ways

Her new novel Dream Count suffers from the retrograde gender politics and bad writing that has defined her career of late.

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Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola

Almost two years into the war, Sudan is facing anarchy, famine, genocide – and ambivalence from the rest of the world Sudan’s war, which began in April 2023, is closing in on its second year. No one expects or becomes accustomed to war, but it is…

Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the future, as well a…

Some of the world’s oldest Christian manuscripts are in hiding from the violence that has ripped through their region