Chagos Islanders Want to Go Home Chagos Islanders Want to Go Home
When the United States built a military base on Diego Garcia, its inhabitants were forced out. Will the International Court of Justice rule on their return?
Dec 3, 2018 / Abdelwahab Biad and Elsa Edynak
War With Russia? War With Russia?
The New Cold War is more dangerous than the one the world survived.
Dec 3, 2018 / Feature / Stephen F. Cohen
Elizabeth Warren Just Took a Crucial Stand for Democracy and Enlightened Internationalism Elizabeth Warren Just Took a Crucial Stand for Democracy and Enlightened Internationalism
Warren is proposing to break the grip of billionaire campaign donors and corporate interests on US foreign policy.
Nov 30, 2018 / John Nichols
Travel Boycotts Won’t Fix Myanmar Travel Boycotts Won’t Fix Myanmar
The country’s treatment of its Rohingya minority is vexing tourists, but not enough to stop the violence.
Nov 29, 2018 / Jessica Loudis
In a Rebuke to Trump, the Senate Just Voted to Open Debate on US Support of Saudi War in Yemen In a Rebuke to Trump, the Senate Just Voted to Open Debate on US Support of Saudi War in Yemen
A resolution sponsored by Bernie Sanders breaks the deadlock, with a 63-37 vote.
Nov 28, 2018 / John Nichols
Yemen’s Human-Rights Defenders Are Fighting Increasingly Desperate Odds Yemen’s Human-Rights Defenders Are Fighting Increasingly Desperate Odds
“This war will never stop until the international community decides to take action.”
Nov 28, 2018 / Sarah Aziza
Ukraine’s Pinochet Scenario Ukraine’s Pinochet Scenario
Did President Poroshenko use a clash with Russia to try to shut down internal opposition?
Nov 28, 2018 / Nicolai N. Petro
Bernie Sanders Wants the Senate to End ‘Unauthorized and Unconstitutional’ US Aid to the Saudi Assault on Yemen Bernie Sanders Wants the Senate to End ‘Unauthorized and Unconstitutional’ US Aid to the Saudi Assault on Yemen
He has secured critical backing for a vote to block US support for attacks that are worsening a humanitarian crisis.
Nov 27, 2018 / John Nichols
Has the United States Been Fighting the Wrong War in the Middle East? Has the United States Been Fighting the Wrong War in the Middle East?
If evidence is to be believed…
Nov 27, 2018 / Andrew J. Bacevich
Progressives Have a Foreign Policy, and It’s the Antidote to Rising Global Authoritarianism Progressives Have a Foreign Policy, and It’s the Antidote to Rising Global Authoritarianism
Only by creating an intersectional movement for change at home and abroad can we fight like hell for the solutions we all know are necessary.
Nov 27, 2018 / Kate Kizer and Stephen Miles