Illustrations by Grace McKenna Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist who was imprisoned in 1926 for his critique of fascism and remained behind bars until just before he died in 1937. His prison notebooks, which defined the importance of cultural hegemony, are still widely referenced in politics today. When I studied Gramsci in one of my courses, my professor joked that it was ironic how many works of legitimate, published literature from the 30s have been deemed outdated an

Illustrations by Grace McKenna So, apparently Donald Trump and Bill Clinton had a thing on the side. Last week, Congress disclosed over 2,000 of American sex offender Jeffery Epstein’s emails from the decade leading up to his death. The first leak, revealing from Epstein himself that ‘of course’ U.S. president Donald Trump ‘knew about the girls’ , was surprisingly not the information that turned the most heads. An email sent to Epstein by his brother, Mark, suggested that Rus

Illustrations by Grace McKenna A thirty-four year old, Muslim, immigrant, democratic socialist is elected mayor of a city hailed as the center of capitalism just one year after an inexperienced, convicted felon accused of authoritarian rhetoric is elected for the second time to lead the land of the free and one of the most powerful states in the world. I’m Gwynne, The Broad’s new Politics columnist, and I’d like to get to the bottom of this kind of dissonance by exploring the

Illustrations by Grace McKenna On the 6th of October 2025, the Supreme Court of India issued notice  in the most significant Habeas Corpus petition in India’s democratic memory since Additional District Magistrate, Jabalpur V. Shivkant Shukla . The case at hand pertains to the detention of the 2018 Magsaysay Award winner Sonam Wangchuk: a scientist, educator and climate activist based in Ladakh, India. The plea has been filed by Dr Gitanjali Angmo, Sonam Wangchuk’s wife, seve

Illustrations by Grace McKenna Public memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has long been shaped by a U.S.-centred narrative that frames the...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The COP26 protest started at Kelvingrove Park, in Glasgow. As protestors took their places, from the...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Shopping in the Czech Republic is a game of Russian Roulette; whether it’s milk or chicken, throwing the...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq It has admittedly become somewhat of a cliché to point out the irony that in an unprecedented age of mass...