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Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.

In her new memoir, Arundhati Roy tries to find the language to grapple with the shadow of her formidable, extraordinary mother.

What do the far right’s fluctuating fortunes in Poland suggest about countries seeking an off-ramp from autocracy?

The quest to fathom the riotous diversity of nature is absorbingly told in a virtual double biography of the great taxonomist Carl Linnaeus and his contemporary, the count of Buffon.

After the fall of France many writers and artists fleeing the Nazis ended up in Marseille, desperately seeking a way out of occupied Europe.

With its brilliant prose and unrelenting darkness and pessimism, José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night towers over Chilean literature.

Although his own writings are little known today, Malcolm Cowley became one of the great champions of American literature.

As Guatemala and El Salvador were being torn apart by violent US-backed regimes, tens of thousands of children—many of them war orphans, others forcibly taken from their birth parents—were being adopted overseas.

Venezuela offers a potential diplomatic model for Washington and Tehran.

To the Editors: Regarding Bill McKibben’s review of The Story of CO 2 Is the Story of Everything , and with all due respect to McKibben, I believe that

Major banks have denied financing to ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic — but a bill pushed by companies could force their hand.

A key source of speed is gone, as concerns over toxic “forever chemicals” reshape Olympic skiing and the science behind winning on snow.

As luxury restaurants reintroduce meat, young vegan cooks are figuring out what’s next.

“It really feels like another false solution. ”

As great powers abandon international law with impunity, Europe must unite or risk fragmentation and subordination.

We need to establish a dominion of love on this precious planet Earth: A love manifesto.

A fundraising push from the Israel lobby pits two moderates, Tahesha Way and Tom Malinowski, against each other in New Jersey’s special election.

Kyiv accuses Moscow of using a temporary halt in strikes to stockpile weapons.

The new U. S. ambassador in New Delhi may have played an instrumental role in this week’s trade agreement.

How African nations fit into the Trump administration’s plans to combat China.