Supreme Court Decisions Put Human Security At Risk
By Michael Barnett The recent US Supreme Court decisions to strike down New York’s century-old gun control law,…
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Abortion Bans Are a Tool of Political Repression
By Emily Hencken Ritter and guest contributor Jennifer N. Barnes On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court…
Juneteenth 2.0—or Putting Black Folk Back into Their Emancipation
By Christian Davenport I know you are wondering why you are seeing something that you believe is connected…
Best Political Violence Books of 2021
By Jessica Maves Braithwaite and Emily Hencken Ritter Like we did for 2020 and 2019, here’s a list…
Why Have Military Courts Become Such a Popular Tool of Repression?
Guest post by Brett J. Kyle and Andrew G. Reiter In November, the Taliban government in Afghanistan announced…
If Repression Is Local, So Are the Solutions
By Emily Hencken Ritter and Sequential Potential Dr. Martin Luther King spent his adult life fighting without violence…
The Economic Consequences of Criminal Violence
Guest post by Ethan B. Kapstein and Adityamohan Tantravahi Among its many deleterious effects on social well-being, violent…
Why Human Rights Are Losing Their Good Reputation
Guest post by Hannah Baron Human rights organizations and advocates continue to decry the lethal war against crime…
The Lost Nazis: Missing Perpetrators of Genocide
Guest post by Cyanne E. Loyle On February 21, 2021, the US Justice Department ordered the deportation of…
Nigerians and Americans Are Protesting Police Violence, But They Have Different Demands. Here’s Why
Guest post by Megan Turnbull Police brutality is an entrenched problem in Nigeria and the US, and 2020…