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From immigration to the drug war, there’s a lot that needs fixing in the U.S.-Mexico relationship. But border walls, hate speech, and deportations won’t do it

In the U.S., the debate over Iraq has been placed on mute

A report from Berlin on causes of the spate of violence striking Germany and across Europe

How is the international press responding to the Democratic National Convention and the formalization of Hillary Clinton’s status as the party’s standard-bearer in the presidential campaign?

Percent by which private funding from outside the party committee is expected to increase over 2012 for this year’s Democratic convention: 12

Investments by Qatar’s state-owned companies in Britain are the largest in western Europe

Some of the worst provisions in there were not because our partners demanded it, it was because we demanded it

Focusing on domestic issues, Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech sidestepped the deep concerns anti-war Democrats have about her hawkish foreign policy, which is already taking shape in the shadows

You kill and you kill and you kill, and still you remain proud

Maduro’s closest economic advisor interviewed at length by Michael Albert

101 days to the election. Let’s defeat Trump, deal a big setback to Trumpism and lay the basis for a people’s movement that cannot be denied going forward.

The Democrats ditched the working class in favour of a professional elite leaving Trump – a master of ‘resentment politics’ – to hoover up their votes

We’re reaching Iraq levels of human tragedy

Sixty miles south of the Arizona border, the devastation from a toxic spill has led to an epochal battle between a transnational mining conglomerate and an alliance of miners and farmers

We need more candidates running on the basis of working class, grassroots funding

To this government, “taking back control” means handing Britain to a different set of foreign powers

As wildfire rages in California, flooding affects millions in India and China, and eggs are fried on sidewalks in Iraq, scientists say global climate catastrophe is surpassing predictions

Does the Democratic Party—open to all immigrants, races, genders, and sexual orientations—have enough room for less educated white voters?

Trump will pose an impossible dilemma for the institutions of democracy: because they are too slow and complicated for him, he will seek to bypass them

The Hindu Caste system  is Full of rationale; From head to polluted tail It ordains a synthesis. Thus, the Brahmin, is to rest and bless, The kshatriya will the realm protect; The Vaishya will the chips collect, And the Shudra clean up the mess. Thus is Bharat stable, strong, With each one in unshakable place— Read more…

It’s all about the growing military power of Nusra

One of Denmark’s most serious problems is that the Social Democrats and the more leftist parties do not believe that the people are actually capable of ruling sensibly

Though some anti-war Americans see hope that Donald Trump would pull back from foreign wars, they also must face his undeniable record of racial and sexist bigotry

We are privileging certain kinds of violence and magnifying it through the press and social media

One reason could be that it enables the US to prevent any rapprochement between them, and ensures, after Brexit, that its most biddable ally, the UK, remains closely bound to Europe’s military destiny

Do liberals really want to trash Trump for taking positions that are less aggressively militaristic than the nation’s most warmongering neoconservatives?

The media is treating them like weirdos, but they’re responding to Sanders’s loss like ordinary human beings

From police killings to forced evictions and environmental destruction; the Olympic Games in Rio are cause for an alphabet soup of misery and suffering

A plurality of all voters, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, feel that Israel currently receives too much US aid

Doing this week after week requires not just commitment, but also a firm belief that things are changing, even if the result is not immediately visible

Latin America’s “pink tide” governments challenge neoliberalism and US hegemony, but leave the basic structures of capitalism intact

The United Kingdom has not seen such deep polarisation in living memory

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton led a team committed to delegitimizing the politics of the late Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution

This election is all about the Supreme Court that will shape our lives for the next 30 years

Wanting opportunities and a chance at a real life, they knew this was just a temporary stopover in their long-term plans

A thick strand in the history of U.S. policing is rooted back in the slave patrols of the 19th century

The real problem is that since the failed Cancun Summit in 1981, countries have lost the ability to think together

The day after Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at the Democratic National Convention and urged his supporters to work to ensure his former rival wins the presidential race, we host a debate between Clinton supporter Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary under President Clinton, and Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who backs Sanders. AMY Read more…

A debate between Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein and Ben Jealous, former NAACP president and CEO and a Bernie Sanders surrogate

The complete transcript of the prepared remarks from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ speech to the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Doctors seldom have to go hungry at lunchtime when Pharma reps are around

A long history of multinational corporate exploitation and political corruption crippled West Africa’s response to the Ebola epidemic

Donald Trump’s Republicans are becoming the party of blue-collar white voters, as college-educated white voters slip away

The multibillion-dollar Olympic mirage that has been erected “for the English to see” is at risk of complete collapse

We have millions more workers than we used to—the problem being that they are worse off than they used to be, not that they don’t exist

“If the Democratic Party wants Hillary to win in November, they’re going to have to work a whole lot harder to get us to vote for her”

Democrats need to get comfortable with using the term “working class” or risk losing those voters to Trump

Interview on the Democratic Party

The biographies of icons frequently fall into one of two categories. On the one hand they may be laudatory, in some cases turning the subject into a saint. At the opposite end, they can tend towards tell-all pieces, in some cases aiming to tear down the subject. What makes America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Read more…

Progressives who had backed Bernie Sanders are understandably upset about the prospect of a Clinton presidency. Some put their hopes in the Democratic Party platform, where Bernie supporters won on issues like a $15 minimum wage. But party platforms don’t mean much in the end. It is likely that if she wins the presidency, the Read more…