Evidence of colonization in the United States is stored in filing cabinets and archives of bureaucracy, and is still evident ...

It should come as no surprise to those of us with even a cursory understanding of the history of U.S. imperialism that the once sovereign Kingdom of Hawai’i became the very first state in the nation ...

By affirming that customary international law can ground claims for climate-related reparations, the ICJ appeared to open the door for climate demands tied to colonial harms. Yet, in the same opinion, ...

This short explainer simplifies the concept of the "White Man's Burden," a phrase used to justify Western imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Learn how this ideology framed colonial ...

Much environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty. In this era of catastrophic climate change, why is it easier for some to imagine the end of fossil fuels than ...

This is what real “decolonization” should look like. By Adom Getachew Dr. Getachew is the author of “Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.” “Decolonize this place!” ...

A recent book on the Revolutionary Cells of Germany, a network of militant left-wing radicals active in the 1980s and 90s, includes a curious exchange. An interviewer asks three former RC members ...

University of Cambridge research associate Harriet Mercer on how colonialism has fuelled global warming and made many communities more vulnerable to its effects Colonialism, the report asserts, has ...

Harriet Mercer is a member of the Making Climate History project, which receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)‘s sixth and latest report on the ...

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 2016). Other past winners include Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1951), Ivo Andric (1961), Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (1903), José Echegaray (1904), ...

Explore the surprising connection between colonial violence and modern food, from pumpkin spice lattes to Indian street food, ...