Global Organizations

Mueller walks through halls of capitol building

How the Russiagate Investigation Is Sovietizing American Politics How the Russiagate Investigation Is Sovietizing American Politics

“Collusion,” “contacts,” selective prosecutions, coup plotting, and media taboos recall repressive Soviet practices.

Feb 20, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Freeland and Mogherini at the Women Foreign Ministers Meeting

Canada’s ‘Feminist’ Foreign Aid Is a Fraud Canada’s ‘Feminist’ Foreign Aid Is a Fraud

Women’s empowerment is never just an economic issue; it’s always a political issue, too.

Feb 11, 2019 / Rafia Zakaria

Venezuela's Opposition

How Washington Funded the Counterrevolution in Venezuela How Washington Funded the Counterrevolution in Venezuela

Self-declared president Juan Guaidó comes from the right-wing, US-backed student movement that tried to subvert Hugo Chávez’s government.

Feb 8, 2019 / Tim Gill and Rebecca Hanson

Occupy Oakland

Economic Nationalism Is Suicide Economic Nationalism Is Suicide

Our inability to think globally pushes us further into a world of growing jingoism and martial confrontation.

Feb 5, 2019 / Jamie Merchant

Anti-Nuclear War Demonstration

Trump Is Igniting a Perilous New Nuclear-Arms Race Trump Is Igniting a Perilous New Nuclear-Arms Race

Enforcement, not abandonment, is the answer to violations of the INF Treaty.

Feb 5, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin

Trump’s Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’ Trump’s Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’

Why would Moscow want to fight terrorists without the US? It doesn’t.

Jan 30, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Sudanese Women Protesting

Sudan’s Third Uprising: Is It a Revolution? Sudan’s Third Uprising: Is It a Revolution?

The protests are spreading, and the Bashir dictatorship is being challenged as never before.

Jan 25, 2019 / Sara Mohammed

Venezuela political crisis

How the Right Is Using Venezuela to Reorder Politics How the Right Is Using Venezuela to Reorder Politics

The social-democratic wing of the Democratic Party must find a way to put forth a compelling counter-vision.

Jan 25, 2019 / Greg Grandin

Washington Trained Guatemala’s Killers for Decades

Washington Trained Guatemala’s Killers for Decades Washington Trained Guatemala’s Killers for Decades

The US Border Patrol played a key role in propping up Latin American dictatorships.

Jan 25, 2019 / Feature / Greg Grandin and Elizabeth Oglesby

Brexit Demonstrators

Britain’s Brexit Crack-Up Britain’s Brexit Crack-Up

Why has the Labour Party listened so late and so half-heartedly to the majority of its members who support the call for a People’s Vote?

Jan 23, 2019 / Maria Margaronis

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