On Film, a Window Into Haiti

Gessica Généus discusses Freda, the first movie by a female Haitian director to be nominated for an award at Cannes.

Clair MacDougall

The Politics of Kidnapping in Haiti: Amy Wilentz

Plus Dave Zirin on The Kaepernick Effect.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Were the Recent Haiti Kidnappings Business, Politics—or Both?

Both the assassination of Jovenel Moïse and the recent kidnapping of the Christian missionaries should be seen as a kind of blowback—blowback that has exposed our deplorable and failed policy in Haiti.

Amy Wilentz

America’s Long History of Mistreating Haitian Migrants

Recent images of Border Patrol agents chasing down Haitians have sparked outrage, but the US has been rounding up, detaining, and deporting asylum seekers from Haiti for decades.

Ibrahim Hirsi

Daniel Foote’s Resignation Resounds Like Thunder

The departing special envoy to Haiti undiplomatically tells the truth about US policy.

Amy Wilentz

Biden Wasn’t Elected to Scold Racist Border Agents—He Was Elected to Stop Them

The White House bears full responsibility for the Border Patrol agents caught whipping Haitian migrants at the US-Mexico border.

Elie Mystal

Biden’s Disastrous Deportation of Haitians

Amy Wilentz on the situation at the border, plus Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce on Occupy Wall Street 10 years after.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Assassination, Earthquake, and Storms: Haiti’s Plague Season

For Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, the weekend’s earthquake is virtually a gift from God.

Amy Wilentz

Rethinking Global Security: Katrina vanden Heuvel

What Next for Haiti?

The announced arrests didn’t solve the murder of Jovenel Moïse. Nor do they address the deeper problems of a country where the presidency has become a business, not a duty.

Amy Wilentz