Civil Unrest

wga picketers hold signs

Los Angeles Is Now the Country’s Leading Union Town Los Angeles Is Now the Country’s Leading Union Town

The West Coast capital, once famous for hostility to organized labor, emerges as the epicenter of national strike action.

Sep 1, 2023 / C.M. Lewis

Port-au-Prince residents evacuate the city in a truck

The Biden Administration Cuts and Runs From Haiti The Biden Administration Cuts and Runs From Haiti

After more than a century bleeding the country, installing and abetting corrupt dictators, and suppressing democracy, the US government now advises Americans to flee.

Sep 1, 2023 / Amy Wilentz

Photographs of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger displayed during “Secrets of State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship,” an exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile.

Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide

Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be dec...

Aug 31, 2023 / Peter Kornbluh

A Pakistani Human Rights Lawyer Is in Jail for Giving a Speech

A Pakistani Human Rights Lawyer Is in Jail for Giving a Speech A Pakistani Human Rights Lawyer Is in Jail for Giving a Speech

My lawyer, Imaan Mazari, was arrested for speaking out against the Pakistani military.

Aug 30, 2023 / Hasan Ali

Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington

Martin Luther King’s Dream at 60 Martin Luther King’s Dream at 60

King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the constitution and resistance—often violent—to change.  In many ways, we face the same choice today.

Aug 28, 2023 / Eric Foner

wagner mercenary group soldier at memorial for yevgeny priogzhin

Prigozhin, Putin, and What Next? Prigozhin, Putin, and What Next?

Private military companies, war, and the dilemma of the elites.

Aug 24, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A police armored vehicle patrols an intersection on August 24, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Americans Are More Violent Than Ever, and We Have No One to Blame but Ourselves Americans Are More Violent Than Ever, and We Have No One to Blame but Ourselves

This has been a violent American century—but even less recognized is how our War on Terror helped us to turn on one another.

Aug 24, 2023 / Andrea Mazzarino

Palestinians inspect the damage after Israeli forces stormed the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

Why Palestinians Could Be Facing Another Nakba Why Palestinians Could Be Facing Another Nakba

There are terrifying present-day echoes of the circumstances that led to the catastrophe of 1948.

Aug 17, 2023 / Anne Irfan

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system

Israel’s Repression of Palestinians Paved the Way for Its New Antidemocratic Court Israel’s Repression of Palestinians Paved the Way for Its New Antidemocratic Court

The 56-year-long brutal occupation of the Palestinian Territories has come home to roost.

Aug 16, 2023 / Juan Cole

PERU-INDEPENDENCE-MESSAGE TO NATION-BOLUARTE

Peruvians Are Protesting Their Unelected President Peruvians Are Protesting Their Unelected President

Thousands have joined demonstrations against Dina Boluarte. Now, progressives in Congress are asking the Biden administration to stop supporting her far-right regime.

Aug 16, 2023 / Aída Chávez

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