New Delhi — India's Supreme Court has put on hold a controversial British colonial-era law that critics say has been widely misused against government critics for decades. The sedition law allows ...

Lithograph of the Paxton Boys' 1763 massacre of the Native population in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Published in 1841. Credit: (WikiMedia Commons) In December 1763, the “Paxton Boys,” a vigilante group ...

Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...

Last June, Malaysian authorities burned the homes and boats of members of the Bajau Laut, an indigenous community in Malaysian Borneo whose livelihoods are inextricably linked to the sea. This ...

While George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” remains one of the best-selling allegories in history, two children’s books that are seen as Orwell-style allegories of the Hong Kong protests were recently banned ...

The Cape Coast castle is a lasting legacy of the slave trade. Adam Cohn/Flickr The literature and research on the abolition of slavery in places like Gold Coast (modern day Ghana) has tended to have a ...

And there’s never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-Three.” KIPLING. THE United States is about to enter on an experience which the London Speaker cleverly describes as “ compulsory imperialism.