What Martin Scorsese’s latest film gets right—and wrong.

It is nigh-on impossible to meet both Israeli security demands and Palestinian requirements for minimal ‘sovereignty’, says writer Ahmad Samih Khalidi

We know from history that it is crucial to warn of the potential for genocide before it occurs, rather than belatedly condemn it after it has taken place. I think we still have that time.

On the eve of the Oct. 7 attacks, Amaney Jamal asked Gazans what they thought about Hamas, their economic circumstances and their hopes for long-term peace.

However the conflict ends, with or without Hamas in power (and I bet on the former), Israel won’t be able to avoid...

When you declare total war against Gaza, which has been under perpetual siege since 1967 after being seized by Israel during the Six Day War, what is it you're going to war against? There are no airbases, no army bases, no tank battalions, no air defense systems, no naval ports, no oil refineries, no rail system, no troop barracks, no armored personnel carriers, no howitzers, no satellite systems, no attack helicopters, no fighter jets, no anti-tank batteries,  no submarines,  no command-and-control centers. Just people, most of them women and kids. It's why the entire population must be dehumanized, turned into "human animals" whose lives don't matter.

Facing prison time for solidarity actions, an anarchist from Jaffa speaks on the violence in Palestine, the Israeli judicial system, and how to support Palestinian prisoners.

On October 14, every Australian will be asked to answer a yes or no question. What you write on the ballot paper will determine whether our constitution is changed for the first time in more than four decades. Here's everything you need to know before you vote.

Malaysia says new ruling by French court could overturn a $14.9bn award handed to Filipino heirs of the Sulu sultanate.

The legal case brought by Sulu Sultanate heirs against Malaysia highlights the unexpected links between present day tensions and European colonialism in Southeast Asia.

Go inside the Israeli apartheid system to learn how it affects the daily lives of Palestinians.

Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Money, regulations, and public beaches are no object.

70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism.

The Long Read: The Harvard historian Caroline Elkins stirred controversy with her work on the crushing of the Mau Mau uprising. But it laid the ground for a legal case that has transformed our view of Britain’s past

'There appears to be a historical misunderstanding at foot, and the idea of what a mestizo was in the Philippine context has been lost'

The book is an accessible and finely written introduction to one of the most controversial issues in India.

An interactive and highly illustrated story that investigates the historic rubber industry in Malaya, and its discriminative practices.

How to reckon with the ideology of “Anna Karenina,” “Eugene Onegin,” and other beloved books.

So is it even possible to make a video game that resists capitalism-colonialism?

Learning from Babysan: An American Cartoon as a Source for Studying the Allied Occupation of Japan, and the U.S. Military Presence in Postwar East Asia

Exhibitions in UK and Africa rewrite history by celebrating discoveries of overlooked black excavators in colonial era

The first article in a five-part series examining the ‘imperial boomerang effect’ and its operation in a range of contexts.

The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem.