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We are living in a moment that demands action. Many people feel it viscerally: something is wrong, old structures are failing, and silence is no longer acceptable. Across communities, people are mobilizing—marching, organizing, donating, speaking out. The desire to act…

This journalistic essay examines contemporary slavery as a structural regime of the current global order rather than as a residual anomaly, a marginal criminal deviation, or an isolated humanitarian problem. Drawing on a critical review of the literature in political…

In the wake of the strike that brought thousands of people together in Minneapolis on Friday, January 23, a week after the call for a total blockade against ICE brutality, cities across the United States were involved—New York, Chicago, Denver,…

We’re picking up from The Other 98% Facebook page the good news that the five-year-old boy arrested by ICE agents along with his father has been released. The image of Liam wearing a bunny hat quickly went viral and helped…

January 31, 2026 – Thousands of demonstrators — Arabs and Jewish allies — marched through central Tel Aviv Saturday night in a powerful “Arab Lives Matter: STOP the Violence” rally calling for urgent action to halt the surge in violent…

Thousands of people gathered early this afternoon in a packed Piazza 25 Aprile to say no to the presence of ICE in Milan, and not only during the Winter Olympics. There were many flags of left-wing parties, movements, and associations—from…

There are news stories that do not arrive wrapped in epic narratives, nor in strident promises, nor in headlines designed to excite hope. They arrive in silence, as important things usually do. While the public space becomes saturated with shouting,…

There are days when death in Gaza seems to advance in silence, one life today, another tomorrow, as if horror were administered in small doses so as not to disturb the world’s conscience too much. And there are other days…

The contemporary international system appears to be drifting toward a dangerous paradox: unprecedented technological sophistication alongside growing political irrationality. Economic instability, political polarization, and cultural confusion are no longer isolated phenomena; they have merged into a single global condition of…

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to wield power are those who have never sought it. Those who are forced to assume leadership, accept it because they must, and discover, to their own…