Evangelical churches use small talk to enforce conformity, silence dissent on race and gender, pushing congregations toward the political right.

A historian traces how blackface vaudeville and lynching coverage in Canadian newspapers, 1898–1919, exposed anti-Black sentiment.

Nvidia depends on a single Taiwanese factory, and neither Washington nor Beijing fully controls it: the real stakes of the AI chip war.

The expansion of the national security state raises urgent questions about democratic oversight and constitutional limits.

Climate change is a spiritual crisis shaped by centuries of Christian theology — and a case for how we might live when worlds end.

AI backlash: data center protests and rising public anxiety are reshaping U.S. elections, pitting state regulation against federal preemption.

As EU leaders expand defense budgets and loosen fiscal constraints, is Europe entering a structural war economy?

Rising political pressure on central banks is raising new questions about democratic legitimacy

Honesty is eroding in many areas of society today. Indeed, it is not mere rhetorical flourish to say that we are facing a number of honesty crises.

Community gardens illuminate the rise of nonreligion through lifestance, reframing ethics, community, and human–nature relations.

The Cuban dictatorship faces energy collapse and shrinking external support. Is the regime approaching a decisive breaking point?

A critical analysis of the US–Mexico border as a space shaped by art, control, commerce, and political paradox.

A Christmas reflection on Europe’s growing isolation as power eclipses law, alliances turn transactional, and the continent confronts the future.

Political leaders have stressed the importance of buttressing “secularism,” framed as a separation of undesirable religion from a public sphere.

What once seemed like neutral innovation has become a transformative force in finance, culture, and law. Yet the moral frameworks...

Assata Shakur died in Cuba after decades as a fugitive. Her violent legacy, silence on repression, and political reverberations remain.

A critical look at innovation’s dark side: how it hides inequality, erases care work, and masks political issues behind tech progress.

Explore how states use religious soft power to shape identity and compete for influence in world politics.

Beijing’s authoritarian playbook offers a chilling parallel to developments in the U.S., challenging the resilience of liberal democracy.

Explores how democracy, media freedom, and gender equality shape abortion attitudes across countries through cultural, political, and social lenses.

Explore the role of Black women in shaping human rights, turning a distant ideal into a global practice rooted in resistance, solidarity, and justice.

Analysis of anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles, focusing on immigrant rights, public resistance, and threats to democratic values.

Project 2025 seeks to remake the U.S. state by centralizing executive power, purging civil institutions, and enforcing a singular ideological order.

Human rights discourse in supranational courts: how language, translation, and genre shape justice across ECtHR, IACtHR, and ACtHPR decisions.

How U.S. bankruptcy law deepens inequality—Melissa Jacoby’s Unjust Debts exposes a system that punishes the vulnerable and protects the powerful.

Scholarship on populism has dominated the last two decades but is now retreating in the face of a new concept : that of illiberalism.

Land power shapes societal fate. Albertus shows how who owns land still drives inequality, politics, and global change in the 21st century.

New York’s political order has long combined neoliberal, conservative, and egalitarian forces, defying the idea that it is simply a liberal stronghold.

Explores how love (ai) became a political discourse in modern China—bridging religion, nationalism, socialism, and affective governance.

Abolition is not obedience undone, but freedom reclaimed. This essay weaves abolitionist constellations as maps toward justice and inner truth.

As a psychiatrist, I’ve spent my career working with patients who have delusions—that is, false beliefs held with unassailable conviction like believing that one is the Second Coming of Christ or…

Explore how Cuba's kleptocracy operates, its impact, and why it matters for global corruption and regional stability.

How neoliberalism redefined democracy in Europe after 1989, weakening representation and fueling technocracy, populism, and citizen discontent.

Protest, political voice, and marginalized groups are key to resisting democratic erosion amid rising authoritarianism and a crisis of representation.

Modern leaders face crises and distractions that undermine long-term thinking, creating a short-termism trap that weakens democratic governance.

State sovereignty drives global language loss and fuels attacks on diversity, as shown through fieldwork in Tibet.

Explores how freedom without responsibility can lead to chaos, hypocrisy, and tyranny. From pandemics to politics, liberty is under siege.

Discover how ordinary people become war criminals. Alette Smeulers reveals 14 perpetrator types and the psychology behind mass atrocities.

An analysis of how attacks on truth and evidence-based institutions threaten democratic life amid rising authoritarianism in the United States.

What shapes violence more—place or perception? This essay explores how power, media, and narrative influence what we ignore as violence.

For many viewers, cinema is a form of paid entertainment to relax or escape. In academic circles, cinema is defined as a means of communication.

The SAVE Act could block millions from voting through strict ID rules—despite no evidence of widespread noncitizen voting in the U.S.

Excerpt from Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation (MITPress)

Democracy is built on the idea that law, not code, governs human life. Yet as artificial intelligence takes on increasingly normative functions.

In political theory, few concepts have been as controversial—and as enduring—as Carl Schmitt’s notion of “the political.”

The term “ideology” is used increasingly to accuse rather than to explain. It no longer refers primarily to structures that sustain domination.

No one with their eyes open can currently say that religion plays no role in international politics at this time.

Discover how group empathy can reshape politics and society. Learn how fostering empathy across social groups influences democracy.

Disintegrating Societies: Rising divisions, economic disparity, and disinformation fuel global chaos, threatening democracy and stability worldwide.