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Clampdown on Housing Rights Activists in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

It’s 6:30 am on Monday, June 24. three plainclothes police officers from the São Paulo criminal investigations department walk up to the...

The Broken Promise of Colombia’s Peace Deal

Deep in the undergrowth, 200 yards from the edge of the Colombian jungle, a web of black nylon hides an oven of...

‘We Call That Love’: Marc Lambert Lamba Defended Cameroon’s LGBT Community

He emerged as the group’s de facto leader almost immediately after they were taken into custody. It was May 2005, and Marc...

Why Puerto Rico’s Cops Ignore the Constitution at Night

On July 10, journalist Sandra Rodríguez posted on her blog several pages of leaked texts between Puerto Rico’s Governor Ricardo Roselló and...

The Dream of Open Borders Is Real—in the High Arctic

Svalbard, Norway1 When you land in Longyearbyen, the largest settlement in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, you can step off the plane...

Is Spaceflight Colonialism?

In 2017, protesters occupied the Guiana Space Centre in Kouru, French Guiana, shutting down half the world’s space launches for nearly the...

What Happened When the EU Moved Its Fight to Stop Migration to Niger

The bus station at Agadez was sleepy; the hot season was coming, and by dawn a film of dust had settled on...

How Gay Icon Renaud Camus Became the Ideologue of White Supremacy

A pioneering gay writer in the heady 1980s. A laureate of the Académie Française, a literary circle so rarefied that its members are...

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