South Africa finds itself in a dangerous historical moment. The world order is under threat from its own primary architect. The US wants to remain the premier global political pow ...

As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim in July 2025, the air turned toxic.

For almost 40 years, people who suspect they’ve been harmed by a vaccine have been able to turn to a little-known system called the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program – often simply called the ...

Ahead of the 15 August 2025 meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richard in Anchorage, Alaska, Marie Struthers, Amnesty ...

The proscription of Palestine Action – banning membership or support for the organisation on the ground that the home secretary believes it is “concerned in terrorism” – has led to hundreds of arrests ...

The Sanctuary Movement emerged amid a restrictive US asylum process and as the Reagan administration refused to acknowledge the extent of human rights violations in the region.

Jonquil Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, The Open University Maha Rafi Atal, Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, School of Social and Political Sciences, ...

The wheels of international justice grind exceedingly slowly and will never be sufficient on their own to bring about lasting change.

With little evidence or regulatory oversight, some mushroom products claim to improve cognitive function while posing a risk of serious side effects, including seizures and cardiovascular risk.

Eighty years have passed since Japan’s surrender ended the second world war. But the way Japan thinks about its wartime history is changing at pace. This is coinciding with a political shift that ...

Afghans who have lost US work permits and protections from deportation fear persecution by the Taliban if they return to Afghanistan.

A tiny tick crawls across your skin, potentially carrying a virus so lethal it kills up to four out of every ten people it infects. Yet that same tick shows no signs of illness whatsoever – it feeds, ...