International Law

ICE raid

Should Immigration Laws Be Respected? Should Immigration Laws Be Respected?

If countries want the right and not just the power to control their borders, they have to consider the rights of immigrants, too.

Sep 19, 2018 / Christopher Bertram

Protest Against IMF in Argentina

The IMF’s ‘Large Brain, Unhealthy Ego, and Tiny Conscience’ The IMF’s ‘Large Brain, Unhealthy Ego, and Tiny Conscience’

The reforms to the IMF since the global financial crisis have amounted to window dressing.

Sep 14, 2018 / Lauren Carasik

Gitmo

Psychologists Are Standing Up Against Torture at Gitmo Psychologists Are Standing Up Against Torture at Gitmo

Sometimes the good guys do win.

Sep 11, 2018 / Rebecca Gordon

Rohingya Children Camp

The UN Calls It Genocide—Why Won’t the US? The UN Calls It Genocide—Why Won’t the US?

A new report condemns Myanmar’s military for its slaughter of the Rohingya.

Aug 30, 2018 / David Palumbo-Liu

Kofi Annan Obituary

Remembering Kofi Annan Remembering Kofi Annan

He consistently expressed a powerful concern for poverty and human rights—but he often succumbed to US power and domination.

Aug 21, 2018 / Phyllis Bennis

Pro-choice rally

Keep Up the Fight to Defeat Brett Kavanaugh Keep Up the Fight to Defeat Brett Kavanaugh

You can also donate to help DACA recipients renew their status.

Aug 15, 2018 / no-paywall / NationAction

Pence Montenegro

Montenegro and NATO’s Faustian Bargain Montenegro and NATO’s Faustian Bargain

Did Montenegro’s NATO accession increase the collective defense of the West or merely protect a corrupt regime?

Aug 10, 2018 / Gordon N. Bardos

Border Network for Human Rights Fernando Garcia

Human Rights From the Bottom Up Human Rights From the Bottom Up

As the US abandons its global humanitarian commitments, activists reimagine them at the southern border.

Aug 8, 2018 / Joel Pruce

Courtroom sketch of 9/11 defendants

How Government Secrecy on Torture Has Stymied the 9/11 Terror Prosecution How Government Secrecy on Torture Has Stymied the 9/11 Terror Prosecution

This case is the last front in the long-running battle over the Bush-era torture regime.

Jul 19, 2018 / Lisa Hajjar

I Came as a Journalist to Ask Important Questions

I Came as a Journalist to Ask Important Questions I Came as a Journalist to Ask Important Questions

If I hadn’t been forcibly ejected from the Trump-Putin press conference, here’s what I would have asked.

Jul 17, 2018 / Sam Husseini

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