Developing World

Chinese Ikea Worker

The Toxic Work Environments That Produce Your Pots and Pans The Toxic Work Environments That Produce Your Pots and Pans

Multinational corporations are once again profiting off of China’s dismal labor conditions.

Feb 10, 2016 / Michelle Chen

An Afghan boy works at a construction site behind a US Army soldier in Logar province, Afghanistan.

Natural Resources Were Supposed to Make Afghanistan Rich. Here’s What’s Happening to Them. Natural Resources Were Supposed to Make Afghanistan Rich. Here’s What’s Happening to Them.

Traveling to Logar Province reveals unmanageable violence and co-optation by foreign companies.

Dec 14, 2015 / Feature / Antony Loewenstein

China’s Stock Market Crash Is the Latest Crisis of Global Capitalism

China’s Stock Market Crash Is the Latest Crisis of Global Capitalism China’s Stock Market Crash Is the Latest Crisis of Global Capitalism

Alongside rising protests from farmers and workers, China now confronts a middle class anxious about a slowdown in growth and burned by the stock market bust. It’s a volatile brew.

Oct 5, 2015 / Walden Bello

You Can’t Fight Poverty With a Concert

You Can’t Fight Poverty With a Concert You Can’t Fight Poverty With a Concert

Global Citizen’s celebrity-packed festival aims to mobilize millennials against poverty. That’s pointless if it strips politics from the fight.

Sep 24, 2015 / Benjamin Cohen and Elliot Ross

Otto Pérez Molina attends a corruption hearing, Sept. 8, 2015.

The Rise and Fall of Guatemala’s Most Feared General The Rise and Fall of Guatemala’s Most Feared General

Otto Pérez Molina started his rise to power during a US-backed dirty war. The uprising against impunity that brought him down has been waiting in the wings ever since.

Sep 24, 2015 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Jesse Franzblau

Guatemala protests

Guatemala’s Civil Society Just Did the Impossible Guatemala’s Civil Society Just Did the Impossible

Guatemalans banded together to depose a corrupt administration with dark connections to human rights violations. But another election looms, and the candidates don’t inspire confid...

Sep 11, 2015 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Patricia Davis

Guatemala protests

What’s Happening in Guatemala? What’s Happening in Guatemala?

With its government about to fall, Guatemala is finally questioning the neoliberal orthodoxy of the post–Cold War world.

Sep 2, 2015 / Greg Grandin

Obama and Sanchez Ceren

How El Salvador’s Supreme Court Is Undermining Democracy—With Washington’s Help How El Salvador’s Supreme Court Is Undermining Democracy—With Washington’s Help

WikiLeaks has exposed US government collusion with the chamber’s destabilization strategy.

Aug 8, 2015 / Hilary Goodfriend

South Sudan

South Sudan’s War on Women South Sudan’s War on Women

Survivors say rape has become “just a normal thing” for women caught up in the country’s civil war.

Aug 7, 2015 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Samer Muscati

Ethiopia Claims a US Precedent for Its Crackdown on Journalists

Ethiopia Claims a US Precedent for Its Crackdown on Journalists Ethiopia Claims a US Precedent for Its Crackdown on Journalists

Now that he’s in Addis Ababa, President Obama should call for the release of those locked up by Washington's “war on terror” ally.

Jul 27, 2015 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Laetitia Bader

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