At a moment when the meaning and vitality of the rule of law are hotly debated, we risk forgetting that the principles we now take for granted were not inevitable—they were fought for, often by individuals whose names have been forgotten. This series profiles the pioneers of rights: people who identified gaps in legal protection [...]

Canada’s federal New Democratic Party (NDP), which has the third-largest membership base in federal politics, is facing controversy in its 2026 leadership race after an unelected three-person vetting committee rejected two successive candidates advancing an explicitly anti-war, anti-capitalist platform. The decision has sparked fierce debate about the boundaries of acceptable political discourse within the country’s [...]

Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta’s tenure as Ghana’s Finance Minister from 2017-2024 was marked by ambitious economic reforms, heavy borrowing, and controversial fiscal policies. Initially celebrated for his financial acumen, he later became the target of fierce criticism as Ghana’s debt crisis deepened. By 2025, his reputation was further complicated by corruption charges filed by Ghana’s [...]

This interview with Nigel Biggar—Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and an Anglican priest—was conducted in the aftermath of the twelve-day war between Iran and Israel, at a moment when questions of war, restraint, legality, and moral justification had once again forced themselves into global public consciousness. Experiencing [...]

The US Supreme Court will hear Wolford v. Lopez on Tuesday. The Second Amendment case tests whether a state may make it a crime for licensed gun owners to carry handguns onto private property open to the public unless the property owner has given express permission. The case arises from Hawaii law and asks how [...]

The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, in two cases about whether states may restrict participation on girls’/women’s school sports teams to students classified as female based on biological sex at birth. The two cases are Little v. Hecox (No. 24-38) from the Ninth Circuit, and West Virginia v. [...]

Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited living intellectuals, described by The New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” and widely regarded as the father of modern linguistics. Author of numerous influential works, including Manufacturing Consent, Hegemony or Survival, and Who Rules the World?, Chomsky has shaped both linguistic theory and [...]

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is expected to appear in a Manhattan federal courtroom on Monday to face US charges of leading a 25-year conspiracy to traffic cocaine into the United States in partnership with designated terrorist organizations. An indictment filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York charges Maduro and [...]

The state of judicial independence in Romania has come into the spotlight following one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country’s history and two weeks of mass protests in Bucharest calling for judicial reform, with tens of thousands taking to the streets. Why are Romanians taking to the streets? The demonstrations were sparked by [...]

Cyclone Ditwah exposed Sri Lanka’s catastrophic lack of preparedness. After the first red alerts predicting very heavy rainfall were issued on the night of November 25, Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s public Facebook posts the following day focused on meetings with film producers and Road Development Authority engineers. It was only on the morning [...]