They went up against white mobs, water hoses, vicious dogs, the Ku Klux Klan, trigger-happy nightstick-wielding police, armed only with their belief in justice and their desire for freedom.

As North Korea carries out an unprecedented test of its submarine missile system, Paul French gives us an update on what this means for China, the US and the rest of the world.

As anti-immigrant racism and Islamophobia intensify across most of the Western world, Shon Faye looks at the growing prominence of the gay far-right.

‘We must first attend “violently” to things as they are, without illusions or false hopes, if we are to transcend the present.’ Stuart Hall

Q&A with Alexis Stenfors, author of Barometer of Fear: An Insider’s Account of Rogue Trading and the Greatest Banking Scandal in History, published in May 2017

In February one side of the Atlantic celebrated Black History Month, the other celebrated LGBT History Month. Later in the year we’ll swap. As we celebrate Pride, Wail Qasim reminds us of the links we’re forgetting.

There are two distinct futures of food and farming. The first one leads to a dead end – and a dead planet. But the second can lead to rejuvenation.

Hamid Dabashi draws a sharp line in the sand between European and post-colonial philosophers in this provocative introduction to Can Non-Europeans Think?

Our financial system is hooked on the buoyancy of an unsustainable housing market. Homes routinely ‘earn’ more than people do. How did we get here? And is this actually ever going to change?

Who are Gaza Hacker Team? In this extract from Digital Jihad, Erik Skare introduces us to a group of electronic jihadists and script kiddies who have been active for over eight years.

We’ve teamed up with Yonis Ali Nur and Mary Harper to publish a Somali edition of Getting Somalia Wrong? Download it for free here.

GDP is built on a great lie. Here Lorenzo Fioramonti explains why GDP is such a dangerous number.