The country’s 2004 constitution permits significant local control. Actually practicing it could protect women and minorities in the event of a Taliban takeover in Kabul.
China’s rapid growth has reduced poverty and produced prosperity — as well as skyrocketing inequality, ecological catastrophe, and dangerous financial bubbles.
Foreign policy should prioritize the needs of ordinary civilians and civil society — and wars of choice should always be off the table.
Despite the dashed hopes of the early 2010s, social movements are still winning important fights — and building a framework for human survival.
The International Labor Organization adopted a new Convention on workplace harassment. It’s time for the United States to ratify.
Colonial-era “criminal defamation laws” in countries like India are being wielded against women who hold abusers accountable. But women aren’t standing down.
The U.S. isn’t the only country where women are lining up to burn down the (frat) house.
Russia had a program to return Russian women and children from Iraq and Syria. What happened to it?
Why is the Democratic Party making peace in Korea more difficult?
No matter their age, Saudi women are treated like minors — to the point that many require permission from their sons to work, study, or travel.