One from the ruins of World War I, the other from the gathering storm of World War II

The anti-distraction device is the modern mousetrap: build a better one, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Profiles without selves, or boycott Facebook now; Sartre, Heidegger and Whatsapp; a biography of Orhan Veli, one of Turkey’s great 20th-century poets.

A discussion with the historian Nancy L. Green on the historiography of migration from structuralism to intersectionality; the relevance of trajectories in an age of global movement; and walls, episte...

The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot