New Delhi — India's Supreme Court has put on hold a controversial British colonial-era law that critics say has been widely misused against government critics for decades. The sedition law allows ...

In this Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, file photo, anti-government protesters carry British flags as residents gather to protest a teenage demonstrator shot at close range in the chest by a police officer ...

Instead of using the more provocative national security law, Hong Kong is turning to colonial-era ordinances to crack down on free speech. While George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” remains one of the ...

Lithograph of the Paxton Boys' 1763 massacre of the Native population in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Published in 1841. Credit: (WikiMedia Commons) In December 1763, the “Paxton Boys,” a vigilante group ...

Last June, Malaysian authorities burned the homes and boats of members of the Bajau Laut, an indigenous community in Malaysian Borneo whose livelihoods are inextricably linked to the sea. This ...

And there’s never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-Three.” KIPLING. THE United States is about to enter on an experience which the London Speaker cleverly describes as “ compulsory imperialism.