The South African-born novelist and playwright Gillian Slovo shares her memories of growing up in the presence of family friend Nelson Mandela

In 2011, the number of stops of young black men exceeded New York City's entire population of young black men. Daniel A Medina followed the story of one, Keeshan, whose teenage years were scarred by the controversial police tactic a court has ruled a violation of minorities' rights

After serving three years on death row in San Quentin, California, Shujaa Graham was exonerated over the 1973 killing of a prison guard. Now he is vice chair of Witness to Innocence, an organization that works to empower exonerated death row survivors

The Brooklyn artist is tired of people, mostly men, telling her to smile or calling her 'baby'. She's fighting back against street harassment with a public art campaign

The director of the American Civil Liberties Union's national security project talks about why the Obama administration's drone assassinations are not just illegal in many cases, but are becoming increasingly risky for the US itself

The acquittal last week of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has reignited the debate about race and racism in America. Veteran civil rights campaigner and former presidential candidate the Reverend Jesse Jackson reflects on the 'blacklash' that threatens the African-American community 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr's March on Washington

In the wake of whistleblower revelations about NSA surveillance of US and foreign citizens, film-maker Oliver Stone asks in a video made by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): 'Do we control the government or does the government control us?'

In the wake of whistleblower Edward Snowden's leak of NSA files, Jeremy Scahill says under the Obama administration journalists are being intruded upon and whistleblowers are being charged with crimes

In the week that thinktank Demos celebrates its 20th birthday with a series of events on the theme of post-liberalism and the Economist hails the 'rebirth of liberalism', we ask whether the tradition is dead or thriving. Michael Ignatiaff, David Goodhart, Alison Wolf, David Willetts and Maurice Glasman respond

Mark Blyth, author of Austerity: The History of A Dangerous Idea, argues that not only has the policy of slashing state spending so far failed to repair the economy, it can never work. Instead he proposes that economists take a version of the Hippocratic oath to "do no harm"

The co-author of The Bankers' New Clothes says the dangers inherent in the banking system before the financial crisis have not been dealt with

Kostas Vaxevanis, the Greek journalist facing trial after publishing the 'Lagarde list' of alleged Greek tax avoiders, says his country's journalism has got too close to the politicians it should be exposing

Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells argues that the internet has altered protest movements forever

Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist, discusses why we should be sceptical about the growth and development of Silicon Valley

Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras says Syriza, leading in the polls, offers a real alternative to Europe's failed neoliberal order

Shereen El Feki, author of Sex and the Citadel, argues that despite the political revolutions of the Arab Spring, attitudes towards sex and sexuality remain deeply conservative compared with the west

Heriberto Araujo, co-author of China's Silent Army, argues the west should be more critical of China's economic expansion in the developing world

Diarmaid MacCulloch argues that the job facing the next pope is too great for one man.