To Get Back at Russia, the GOP Is Playing Games With Nuclear Safety To Get Back at Russia, the GOP Is Playing Games With Nuclear Safety
The world just became a lot less safe.
May 8, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What’s Wrong With the Electrify Africa Act What’s Wrong With the Electrify Africa Act
It’s a giveaway to the fossil fuel industry. Global climate justice advocates are fighting instead for clean, renewable energy.
May 7, 2014 / Janet Redman, Emira Woods, John Cavanagh, and Foreign Policy In Focus
Is Obama’s Foreign Policy Approach Really the Same as Bush’s? Is Obama’s Foreign Policy Approach Really the Same as Bush’s?
Two cheers for the president's centrist foreign policy.
May 7, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss
Hungary and the End of Politics Hungary and the End of Politics
How Victor Orbán launched a constitutional coup and created a one-party state.
May 6, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Kim Lane Scheppele
How to Imagine the End of the World How to Imagine the End of the World
How the fears and anxieties of each generation are passed on to the next.
May 6, 2014 / Tom Engelhardt
Weeks After the Abduction of 276 Nigerian Schoolgirls, the World Is Finally Paying Attention Weeks After the Abduction of 276 Nigerian Schoolgirls, the World Is Finally Paying Attention
“I cannot begin to comprehend the terror you are feeling,” says Melissa Harris-Perry in her open letter.
May 5, 2014 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Underneath Putin’s Novorossiya, Gazprom Pumps Away Underneath Putin’s Novorossiya, Gazprom Pumps Away
The web of hydrocarbon ties between Germany and Russia will heat the planet, but cool the conflict.
May 5, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss
Why Anne-Marie Slaughter Is Wrong About Syria—and Ukraine Why Anne-Marie Slaughter Is Wrong About Syria—and Ukraine
A former State Department official says that the way to stop Putin in Ukraine is to bomb Syria. Get it? Me neither.
May 2, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss
This US Contractor Has Spent Almost Five Years in a Cuban Jail. Why Won’t the White House Act? This US Contractor Has Spent Almost Five Years in a Cuban Jail. Why Won’t the White House Act?
The case of Alan Gross reflects Obama’s failure to “write a new chapter in US-Cuba policy.”
May 2, 2014 / Peter Kornbluh
The Campaign Against AIDS in Africa Is Saving Lives—So Why Isn’t the US Investing More In It? The Campaign Against AIDS in Africa Is Saving Lives—So Why Isn’t the US Investing More In It?
The Obama administration has decided to flat-line its budget request for AIDS funding in the continent, even though more money is needed.
May 2, 2014 / James North