Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. At a time when talk of a “clash of civilizations” looks increasingly like a ...

Craig Calhoun is President of the Berggruen Institute. From 2012 to 2016, he was Director and President of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he remains Centennial Professor.

People hold placards outside the U.S. Agency for International Development building in Washington Feb. 3, 2025, protesting the Trump administration's moves to shut down the U.S. foreign aid agency.

While many critics view rising global chaos strictly in geopolitical terms, political philosopher Lea Ypi argues that it’s really ideological — the result of an increasingly coordinated global right.

In October 2016, British Prime Minister Theresa May made her first speech to a Conservative conference as party leader. Evidently seeking to capture the populist spirit of the Brexit vote that brought ...

Ian Buruma, editor of The New York Review of Books, is Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, and the author of Year Zero: A History of 1945. President Donald Trump's ...

(RNS) — Christian cosmopolitanism calls for an expansion of our circle of concern, not to close it to anyone but Americans. (RNS) — In the Baltimore suburb of Catonsville, a congregation of Catholic ...

Like nationalism, Tagore's perspectives on patriotism are also characterised by certain paradoxes and ambiguities; he was a fervid patriot, yet he openly denounced and deplored the sentiment of ...