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my professor joked that it was ironic how many works of legitimate, published literature from the 30s have been deemed outdated an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 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 As a Colombian, it never ceases to shock me whenever someone makes a Pablo Escobar or cocaine joke (even...