Like many African leaders of his era, he was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. This was no romantic picnic.
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Retirement is not just an event, it’s a process of transition that can have a huge impact psychologically, not just professionally.
Mauritians were determined to bring change following a wide range of failures by Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth’s government.
Dictatorial regimes are increasingly reaching across borders to crack down on dissent or punish critics.
Republicans have long focused on freedom as an election issue. Kamala Harris appears to be shifting the Democrats’ strategy to offer a rival view of what freedom means.
The most important value, Joseph Stiglitz argues, is freedom. But his is a broadened concept of freedom.
Since 2020, a team of legal researchers has collected more than 12,000 cases involving enslaved people and more than 40,000 cases that cite those cases.
Brain-computer interfaces may present threats to cognitive liberty. But with or without them, we often overestimate how independent our own minds are, an ethicist writes.
Amid calls to ban certain books from libraries and schools, research shows that students benefit when they have the ability to choose which materials they want to read.
To be homeless is a condition in which a person’s freedom is profoundly compromised. And that’s un-American, says a philosopher.
Court decisions based on a judge’s discretion rather than the letter of the law are increasingly common. But this risks undermining some basic liberties.
The same boldness that enabled hip-hop to endure can benefit teachers in the classroom, a hip-hop scholar writes.
The hijacking of freedom by far-right politicians like Florida’s Ron DeSantis raises crucial questions about whose freedom is truly at stake in a time of tyranny.
There are different tactics that governments can use to block the internet, some more sophisticated than others.
Saying the state upholds universal principles does not act as a safeguard against institutional discrimination and racism.
Ties between the two nations date back to Tanzania’s solidarity with the anti-apartheid struggle.
Science fiction does more than entertain – it can also be used to better understand the political forces that shape the societies in which we live.
The Bush administration invaded Iraq with plans for it to become a democracy. But according to some social science measures, the country isn’t any more democratic than it was before 2003.
Maintaining a functional and lively civil society in Ukraine is crucial to keeping supplies moving and keeping up the morale of the country.
As the year ends, how has New Zealand fared on global and domestic measurements, from social and economic freedoms to tackling poverty and homelessness?
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