PHOTOS: A Year After the Caravans, Has Trump Won? PHOTOS: A Year After the Caravans, Has Trump Won?
Last fall, Tijuana sheltered thousands of Central Americans trying to make their way to the United States. The scene is a lot different now.
Dec 9, 2019 / Photo Essay / Jack Herrera
Don’t Mess With French Pensions Don’t Mess With French Pensions
Emmanuel Macron’s latest bugbear: a million angry French citizens striking against his proposed pension reforms.
Dec 6, 2019 / Colin Kinniburgh
Why Taiwan Won’t Welcome China’s Dissidents Why Taiwan Won’t Welcome China’s Dissidents
Hong Kong protesters and Chinese political dissidents often look to democratic Taiwan as a place for shelter—but its government has little interest in providing it.
Dec 6, 2019 / Nick Aspinwall
It’s a Race Against Time for Labour in Next Week’s Momentous UK Elections It’s a Race Against Time for Labour in Next Week’s Momentous UK Elections
The choice couldn’t be more stark: between the nativist, hard-Brexit Tories and the most radical-left Labour platform the nation has seen in decades.
Dec 5, 2019 / Rachel Shabi
Who Is Making US Foreign Policy? Who Is Making US Foreign Policy?
An anti-neocon president appears to have been surrounded by neocons in his own administration.
Dec 5, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen
US Soldiers Are Carrying the Hidden Trauma of Our Endless Wars US Soldiers Are Carrying the Hidden Trauma of Our Endless Wars
Mental health specialists have long recognized the deep emotional trauma of war. When will the US military?
Dec 5, 2019 / Arnold Isaacs
Want to Stop Climate Change? Start With the US Military Want to Stop Climate Change? Start With the US Military
Our endless wars are taking countless innocent lives and destroying the planet itself.
Dec 4, 2019 / William Astore
Trump Has Made the Military Safe for War Criminals Trump Has Made the Military Safe for War Criminals
The Pentagon is focused on norm violations, while ignoring the enormity of the president’s actions.
Dec 2, 2019 / Jeet Heer
‘We Are So Much More Than Victims’ ‘We Are So Much More Than Victims’
Batool was just a teenager when the Syrian civil war broke out. After living through the worst of the fighting and years in exile, she’s making a new life in Berkeley.
Dec 2, 2019 / John Washington
The Seattle Protests Showed Another World Is Possible The Seattle Protests Showed Another World Is Possible
Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today’s critics of neoliberal capitalism.
Nov 29, 2019 / Mark Engler