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In Colombia and Chile, Latin America Is Returning to Democracy
But is the Biden administration listening?
Jacob SugarmanBrittney Griner’s Show Trial Begins
Russia is once again in the ugly business of “hostage diplomacy.”
Dave ZirinWant to Give Israelis Seamless Travel? First You Have To Recognize Arab Americans as Americans.
For years, the State Department has failed to protect Arab Americans from mistreatment at the Israel-Palestine border. Now’s not the time to ignore that.
James ZogbyLatest World Coverage
The Care Workers of Rural India Are Ready to Strike
More than a million Accredited Social Health Activists, all of whom are female, were on the front lines of rural India’s Covid response. Now they are fighting for higher pay and better working conditions.
Sanket Jain
Joe Biden Is Not the Fighter America Needs
The president loves the system far too much to fix it.
Jeet Heer
After the G7 Summit, Germany’s Climate Envoy Says Rich Countries Are Still Falling Short
Jennifer Morgan is candid: G7 countries need to do more to halt the climate emergency and address the spike in world hunger.
Mark HertsgaardContinuing World Coverage
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July 1, 2022
How Paula Rego's Abortion Pictures Changed the Conversation
When well-meaning critics described her subjects as downtrodden, Rego shot back, “These women are not victims.”
Margaret Spillane -
June 30, 2022
France Rediscovers Parliamentary Politics
Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition would rather look for allies on the far right than on the left.
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June 29, 2022
How Will the War in Ukraine End?
If you’re betting on a democratic Russia anytime soon, you’d better hope peacefully.
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June 27, 2022
China Will Decide the Fate of Ukraine
Only a decisive defeat of Putinism would offer the world some slight hope of restoring some measure of planetary balance.
John Feffer
US Foreign Policy
America’s Lapdog Britain Moves to Extradite Julian Assange
If President Biden really cared about press freedom, he would have canceled the extradition request months ago.
Peter Oborne
What We Can Learn From the Last Cold War
There are indeed a number of parallels between our cold wars, old and new.
Alfred McCoy
NATO From Bad to Worse
It is urgent to rebuild a global peace movement opposed to all military alliances and the ongoing massive increases in defense budgets.
Gilbert AchcarAfrica
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June 2, 2022
Monkeypox Is Not a Gay Disease
But it has arrived in our community—and our decades of experience dealing with HIV give us the chance to get things right from the outset.
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May 10, 2022
There’s Genocide in Tigray, but Nobody’s Talking About it
The reasons range from Internet shutdowns to just pure racism.
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April 19, 2022
The American Media’s Approach to War Coverage Needs to Be Fundamentally Reimagined
We need more reporting on forgotten conflicts—and more stories that spotlight how war ravages people and leads to atrocities.
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April 15, 2022
Jackie Robinson, Pioneer of BDS
The Dodgers great didn’t just break Major League Baseball’s color line. He was also an activist whose legacy reaches from Brooklyn to South Africa to Palestine.
Robert Ross
Asia
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June 22, 2022
The Perils of Shaping a Recalcitrant World
Relying on military power to shape events in distant countries requires very deep pockets and infinite patience—neither of which we currently possess.
Andrew J. Bacevich and Alex Jordan -
June 8, 2022
America Has Its Own Problems to Worry About
Neither Russian “fascism” nor its Chinese variant poses a significant danger to American democracy, which is actually threatened from within.
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June 3, 2022
The Dangers of Biden’s Lesser-Evilism in India
Building an anti-China coalition, the president turns a blind eye to Narendra Modi’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
Jeet Heer -
June 3, 2022
The Radical, Transnational Legacy of Tiananmen Workers
China’s labor-led protests modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals.
Promise Li
Europe
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June 24, 2022
Boris Johnson’s Days Are Numbered
The Tory prime minister’s ethical lapses are legion, constant, and shocking.
Gary Younge -
June 22, 2022
A Peace Settlement in Ukraine
If the war is to ever end, it will have to do so through some form of pragmatic compromise.
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June 17, 2022
The US and Europe Aren’t Interested in Diplomacy
A conversation with Noam Chomsky on the war in Ukraine.
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June 16, 2022
We Must Keep Fighting to Stop the Arms Race
Or we risk facing the unimaginable.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Latin America
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The Pink Tide’s Second Surge
Jeremy Adelman on the new strength of the Latin American left.
Jeet Heer -
June 27, 2022
Fernanda Melchor’s Dark Morality Plays
In her third novel, Melchor turns her allegorical powers in an even more explicitly political direction.
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June 24, 2022
In Colombia, “a Government of the Callused Hands”
In Francia Marquez’s hometown, those have suffered the brunt of the violence and inequality are welcoming a new future.
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June 2, 2022
Raw Speech, Raw Stories: A Conversation With Fernanda Melchor
Her new novel, Paradais, is an explosive exploration of the boundaries of the Spanish language and the the banal brutality of everyday violence.
Lucas Iberico Lozada
Middle East
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June 7, 2022
Alaa Abd el-Fattah and the Hope of a Generation
In the essays of You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, the Egyptian activist and blogger reminds us that democracy flourishes and falters at the interstices, the in-between spaces, and the squares where revolutions take place.
Hussein Omar -
May 20, 2022
George W. Bush Stumbles Into a Moment of Truth
The former president’s gaffe reminds us that his launching of a criminal war still demands justice.
Jeet Heer -
May 20, 2022
AIPAC’s Dangerous New Antidemocratic Project
In the name of supporting Israel, the lobbying group has created a new super PAC that is only too happy to boost candidates that threaten our democracy.
Ezra Oliff-Lieberman -
May 18, 2022
To Honor Shireen Abu Akleh’s Life, Demand Accountability for Her Death
There needs to be an independent investigation by an international body into Shireen’s death—otherwise, it will be the latest example of Israel’s impunity.
Laila Al-Arian and Dalia Hatuqa