BY SUSAN ROBERTS Photo by Sarah Lachise When I was growing up everyone was engaged in politics and, generally, people felt that they had some say in what happened to them. That has diminished significantly. And we […]
BY ALFRED W. MCCOY Photo by Lee Lawson A few recent headlines reveal the painfully inhumane, dangerously volatile state of U.S. relations with its own home region, the continent of North America. A record-breaking 2.76 million border crossings from […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photo by Markus Spiske If you believe that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked, then perhaps you should read no further. And, if you believe that Vladimir Putin will allow the United States […]
ByIvor Williams YOU might argue that to say the world is warming is an obvious fact. ‘But,’ as Sherlock Holmes remarked to Dr Watson*, ‘there is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.’ The meteorological […]
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the formal launch of his reelection campaign on July 24, 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo: Buda Mendes/Getty Images) “The insurrection in Brazil can be directly tied to […]
BY ARIELA RUIZ CARO Two major developments can be inferred from the results of the November 8, 2022 mid-term elections in the United States. First, the voters did not punish Joe Biden after his first two […]
BY DAVID SCHULTZ Phil Knight Management Center, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Photo Steve Castillo. CC BY 3.0 Free speech and academic freedom are under attack in American higher education. From the right the allegation is […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain On January 3, 2023, Shaun Tandon of Agence France-Presse asked U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price about Venezuela. In late December, the Venezuelan opposition after a fractious debate decided to […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Matt Brown – CC BY 2.0 Few sights are more absurd or unreal than political leaders announcing their long-term plans for radical changes benefitting millions or their intention to reform giant institutions […]
BY MICHAEL SLAGER Photograph Source: manhhai – CC BY 2.0 President Biden recently announced changes to US immigration rules that will effectively embed two Trump-era policies, one of which the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has temporarily refused […]