In Troublemaker by Mark L Clifford, president of an NGO fighting for Hong Kong democracy, we follow the staggering ...

Normalising overwork in the pursuit of economic growth echoes dangerous historical precedents; corporate leaders should ...

There are events that, by their appearance, reveal several problems that, at first glance, are only indirectly related, but in fact show the scale and depth of what happened.

a remnant of the collective period under Mao Zedong, when the state told farmers what to farm and took most of what they produced. Jiang and Ping lived through the great famine in the late 1950s ...

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? According to Eva Dou’s rigorous, clear-eyed and often disturbing profile of the Chinese tech giant Huawei, perhaps we all should be. Ren Zhengfei, the publicity-shy ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...

Sudan is facing what the United Nations has described as an “unparalleled humanitarian disaster” with famine confirmed in multiple regions, even as it faces the risk of total destruction from war. And ...

In a report released on Tuesday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the global hunger monitor, confirmed that famine is present in at least five areas of Sudan, including North ...

History explains the modern world by tracking phenomena like gender, race, class, religion, the state, empire, or capitalism back through time. Our historians are able to reach back to the Roman ...