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After a murderous kidnapping in Nigeria, I launched a campaign to put a stop to the abductions. Why did no one listen?

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Designated Emphasis programme.

In 2022, mass protests broke out in Iran following the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini in police custody after she was apprehended for allegedly violating the country’s strict hijab laws. Set against this ...

is a specialist in the early medieval Scandinavians and professor of archaeology at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, where he also directs the national Centre for the World in the Viking Age. He ...

is associate professor of philosophy at Boston University, where he directs the Mind and Morality Lab. He is the co-author of A Better Ape (2022). A population crisis is unfolding – in my family. My ...