Politics & Conflict

Vintage designs and the dream of a better future

The wartime posters of Abram Games show a vision of a shared civic state.

The term has long historic roots, but is highly politically charged.

India's election commission has been criticised for not acting to curb extreme rhetoric.

A new book explores the question of what domesticated Homo sapiens.

National stories involve forgetting, as much as they do remembering – just look at the way Britain’s colonial history is treated.

In a capitalist crisis, voters are punishing socialist parties. In her new book, Stephanie L. Mudge asks why.

International institutions through which states are meant to solve disagreements seem in worse shape than ever – who is to blame?

How a mix of secular nationalists and religious zealots have turned Jerusalem’s Temple Mount into a site of conflict.

With a conservative majority established, it is unclear what will happen to women’s reproductive rights.

Ed Vulliamy's memoir is a lovingly sculpted monument to the songs that made sense, even when nothing else did.