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Repressive violence is sweeping Bolivia. The Áñez regime must be held to account

We call upon the international community to stop supporting this government, which is committing alarming human rights abuses

Published: 24 Nov 2019

Published: 24 Nov 2019

The US demolished Raqqa when they 'liberated' it. Who will rebuild it?

A recent Amnesty International report makes clear the cost of America’s ‘war of annihilation’ against Isis, writes artist and writer Molly Crabapple

Published: 22 Jun 2018

Published: 22 Jun 2018

This refugee squat represents the best and worst of humanity

The derelict City Plaza hotel in Athens was taken over by activists in 2016. Since then, it has housed refugees without a cent of government funding

Published: 23 Jun 2017

Published: 23 Jun 2017

Trump's here. We have four years to write a better story

It’s time to stop playing nice with those who want to destroy us. To win, politicians must offer more radical dreams

Published: 20 Jan 2017

Published: 20 Jan 2017

Inside the impossible life of a New York street vendor

Street vendors find themselves in a war for the right to be ambitious in New York City – and with its massive police presence, Times Square is a frontline

Published: 22 Oct 2016

'I am your horse!': 50 shades of Trump on the stump

Molly Crabapple has been following the US presidential nominations. Here, the writer and illustrator lifts the lid on a lurid campaign of Russian hackers and tangerine demagogues, body armour and BDSM

Published: 25 Jul 2016

Across the world minds are narrowing. We must fight back

Against signs of global intolerance – such as Brexit – the proper answers are cosmpolitanism, art and solidarity

Published: 27 Jun 2016

Published: 27 Jun 2016

The Istanbul bombing was an attack on the city’s cosmopolitan glory

Istiklal is Turkey’s Broadway – its Champs Élysée. With the country embroiled in multiple conflicts, deadly violence is becoming commonplace

Published: 21 Mar 2016

Published: 21 Mar 2016

The New York Stock Exchange goes down: inside the dystopian aftermath

I was met by fires in the streets, the screams of the dying tourists and the shouts of former traders offering sacrifices to their new gods

Published: 8 Jul 2015

Published: 8 Jul 2015

Dear Chelsea Manning: birthday messages from Edward Snowden, Terry Gilliam and more

The jailed whistleblower turns 27 this week. Supporters including Joe Sacco, Vivienne Westwood, JM Coetzee, Michael Stipe and Slavoj Žižek sent her letters, poems and drawings. Luke Harding introduces their work

Published: 16 Dec 2014

Syria's war, 3 years on: 'a horror film', in faces of the dead and voices of revolt

Molly Crabapple: For the anniversary of a civil war no side can win, painting a history, with the Western left failing at every stroke

Published: 14 Mar 2014

Published: 14 Mar 2014

Today marks the 12th anniversary of America's Guantánamo prison disgrace

Molly Crabapple: We must reject indefinite detention and offshore prisons. We must no longer use our fear of terror to inflict terror on the world

Published: 11 Jan 2014

Published: 11 Jan 2014

Banksy on the streets of New York

Molly Crabapple for Creative Time Reports: The celebrated graffiti artist is using his New York 'residency' to subvert the brand success that so easily steals artists' integrity

Published: 15 Oct 2013

Published: 15 Oct 2013

Bradley Manning: my view from inside the Fort Meade courtroom

Molly Crabapple: The media loves to argue whether Manning is a hero or a traitor, but that is beside the point. This is about truth

Published: 31 Jul 2013

Published: 31 Jul 2013

Bradley Manning and us: a soldier for truth on trial

Molly Crabapple for Creative Time Reports: Manning's WikiLeaks release made it impossible for America to ignore the moral horror of its foreign wars. That is true loyalty

Published: 3 Jun 2013

Published: 3 Jun 2013