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May 22, 2023
Eliane Brum Is in the Reforesting Vanguard
A conversation with the award-winning Brazilian writer and journalist about the politics of the Amazon rain forest, the violence that seethes beneath its canopy, and her new book, Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World.
Lewis Gordon
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May 15, 2023
With Lula in Charge, What’s Next for the Brazilian Left?
Brazilian labor leaders Artur Henrique and Marcio Pochmann share their thoughts on the continuing danger of the far right in Brazil.
Bill Fletcher Jr. and Bill Gallegos
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May 15, 2023
Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile
The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.
Peter Kornbluh
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May 15, 2023
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100
We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office, from helping Nixon derail the Paris Peace Talks and prolong the Vietnam War to green-lighting the invasion of Cambodia and Pinochet’s coup in Chile. But we know little about his four decades with Kissinger Associates.
Greg Grandin
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May 8, 2023
Santiago Amigorena’s Novel of the Shoah and Latin America
In The Ghetto Within, the Argentine novelist considers the dark shadow that the Holocaust has cast not only on Europe but also on Latin America.
Ilan Stavans
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April 27, 2023
Anatol Lieven Reports From Ukraine, Plus Amy Wilentz on Haiti
On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, life during wartime in Kyiv and fighting gangs in Port-Au-Prince.
Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
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April 12, 2023
A Wave of Evictions Is Devastating California’s Farmworkers
As growers bring in more H-2A workers, affordable housing for local farmworkers has become sparse in the region’s labor camps.
David Bacon
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April 7, 2023
Colombia Adopts an Unprecedented Energy Policy—but Needs Help to Pull It Off
Colombia is the first country to declare that it wants to stop digging. Will the world, and particularly the United States, now lend a hand in pulling it out of its economic hole?
John Feffer
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April 3, 2023
US Policy Caused the Deaths of 39 Migrants in Juárez
The Biden administration’s offshoring of US asylum obligations is killing people, not deterring them.
Alejandra Oliva
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March 30, 2023
It’s Been a Year. Why Hasn’t Biden Freed Eyvin Hernandez?
The LA public defender was wrongfully and arbitrarily detained in Venezuela one year ago this week. It’s past time for the US government to bring him back.
Traci Blackburn, Henry Martinez and Bahar Mirhosseni