The judges’ provisional ruling dismissed almost every objection—moral, technical, procedural—thrown up by the Israeli defense team.

Lawyers for Israel defended the country’s bombardment of Gaza with a polite, legal form of blackmail.

From Rio de Janeiro to Kanazawa, cities all over the globe are being recognized as biodiversity hot spots—and reimagining conservation in the twenty-first century.

In a warming world, failing to invest in infrastructure will be deadly.

The Covid variant came out of nowhere. Now it’s everywhere. And neither the government nor the people can stomach another round of severe pandemic restrictions.

As omicron spreads around the world, countries are adopting ineffective and divisive strategies. What’s really needed is cooperation.

“The Promise” is a portrait of a society where words lose their meaning.

Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.

After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail.

The race for a cure has put a spotlight on corporate control over medical research. Under a Democratic administration, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Thirty-four years after the prime minister was murdered, Sweden has identified his assassin. But the case is by no means concluded.

Notes on Cancel Culture

An energized resistance movement brought down Jacob Zuma, the postapartheid demagogue. But was democracy saved?

On the strange afterlife of a figure who embodied post-apartheid South Africa’s contradictions and failings

The water crisis facing the drought-stricken South Africa city is only a preview of things to come—even in the United States.

These photos offer a stark reminder that, 22 years after apartheid, the country is still defined by massive inequality and stark segregation.

The young lawyer fought the British empire for the rights of Indians, but not those of the Zulus he lived among.

How being everyone and no one defines the new Daily Show host’s comedy