Global Organizations

Oil Worker Bahrain

Did OPEC Just Start Preparing for the End of the Oil Era? Did OPEC Just Start Preparing for the End of the Oil Era?

The debacle in Doha may be the beginning of the end for the old oil order.

Apr 28, 2016 / Michael T. Klare

Donald Trump Speech

Trump Attempted a Foreign Policy Makeover Today. Did it Work? Trump Attempted a Foreign Policy Makeover Today. Did it Work?

Who’s advising this guy?

Apr 27, 2016 / James Carden

Seoul Opening Ceremonies

The 1988 Seoul Olympics Were a Horror Show of Human Rights Abuses. Will Rio Be the Same? The 1988 Seoul Olympics Were a Horror Show of Human Rights Abuses. Will Rio Be the Same?

Brazil’s latest political turmoil doesn’t bode well for the 2016 Games in Rio.

Apr 21, 2016 / Dave Zirin

Start Making Sense: Yes, Hillary Could Lose to Trump

Start Making Sense: Yes, Hillary Could Lose to Trump Start Making Sense: Yes, Hillary Could Lose to Trump

Plus Amy Wilentz on Hillary and Haiti, and the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel about Vietnam.

Apr 21, 2016 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

A man carries a child as migrants and refugees arrive on a dinghy after crossing from Turkey to Lesbos island, Greece.

The EU Is Now Criminalizing Refugees The EU Is Now Criminalizing Refugees

The move to detention rather than welcome has led to a rapid downward spiral in conditions.

Apr 20, 2016 / Lydia Wilson

Bernie Sanders leaves the Vatican

Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican

Sanders’s hope for a moral economy is amplified at the Vatican.

Apr 19, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A protester with a bullhorn at a protest in Albany

Today Is Tax Day—Are Corporations Paying Their Fair Share? Today Is Tax Day—Are Corporations Paying Their Fair Share?

The amount of money corporations offshore is enough to fund healthcare for over 2 billion people worldwide.

Apr 18, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Protest in Chilpancingo Mexico

A Voter’s Guide to Hillary Clinton’s Policies in Latin America A Voter’s Guide to Hillary Clinton’s Policies in Latin America

Support for coup regimes, militarization and privatization, trade deals that wreak economic havoc—they reveal the failure of Clintonism.

Apr 15, 2016 / Greg Grandin

The EU’s Future Ruins: Moria Refugee Camp in Lesbos

The EU’s Future Ruins: Moria Refugee Camp in Lesbos The EU’s Future Ruins: Moria Refugee Camp in Lesbos

“This is a prison. This is Guantánamo.”

Apr 15, 2016 / Yannis Hamilakis

Pope Francis

Mr. Sanders Goes to the Vatican Mr. Sanders Goes to the Vatican

Bernie may be Jewish, but he seems to have found an echo of his politics in the Catholic Church’s call for social justice—especially under Pope Francis.

Apr 14, 2016 / Edouard Tétreau

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