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Guilty as Not Charged: Trump, the ‘World’s Coolest Dictator,’ and 238 Venezuelans
On March 16th 2025, in defiance of a court order, 238 Venezuelan citizens were deported from The United States to El Salvador. None of the 238 had been formally charged with a specific crime. Rather, under the auspices of an emergency act from 1798, last used in World War 2, the Venezuelans were declared to be Enemy Aliens. The justification for the arrest and deportation of the Venezuelans is that they were judged by the United States government, who have not released any pr
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The pandemic and its escalating impact on global health, societies and economies
Kim Wistedt | 14 March 2025 Long-term effects of COVID-19. Photo licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License,...
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How Kolkata’s citizens are trying to revive the city’s 152-year-old tramways
Proshant Chakraborty | 24 February 2025 The yellow taxicab and blue tram—two Calcutta icons. Photo by Proshant Chakraborty. A detour to...
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Harnessing AI for justice: Transforming war crime investigations
Yodunika Seneviratne | 24 January 2025 AI image of Justice and scales, generated with Canva AI photo generator “What AI and machine...
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Transnational repression and global(-ized) authoritarianism
Arne F. Wackenhut | 10 December 2024 An AI-generated illustration of the concept “transnational repression”. The picture is AI-generated...
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