As GenZ youth protests are spreading worldwide, Alison Sargent welcomes Dr. D.B. Subedi to get to the heart of the driving force of these new collective protests. Dr. Subedi situates the Moroccan Gen ...

Whatever you call it, this hypocrisy has been elevated to performance art in the Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy. The chairman, Greens senator Peter Whish ...

I was born in a dictatorship. I saw it fall and did not think I’d see it rise again. The dictatorship I was born in – the Soviet Union – was old and senile, much like the succession of its fossilized ...

Around the world, Gen Z is leading a wave of anti-government protests. It is the most significant spike in global dissent since the Arab Spring 15 years ago, with a geographic reach already to four ...

While the North African neighbours are no strangers to trading accusations of destabilisation, Algiers may fear repeat of current social unrest in Morocco ...

A Thai court has sentenced a man to life in prison for killing a prominent Cambodian opposition politician in Bangkok. In January, hours after Lim Kimya arrived in the Thai capital with his wife, he ...

What began as anger over shortages of basic necessities has rapidly escalated into one of the most serious challenges facing President Andry Rajoelina, who has been in power, for the second time, ...

Returning to the Frankfurt School’s prescient insights, citizens in democratic societies should cultivate what one might call “cultural literacy”—the capacity to recognise when popularity is organic ...

This is my first column since going on book leave in May. (Thank you to Jon Allsop for filling in admirably and expanding the mission of Fault Lines while he was at it.) Every restart comes with a bit ...

Pakistan’s turn to transnational repression has intensified under Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir because of the absolute power he has amassed. In the last three years, since Munir became army chief, ...

Making an example of them by trying to strip them of citizenship not only violates their fundamental rights but creates a climate of fear for all local dissenters. Journalists, activists, and ordinary ...