Why Are So Many Mexican Mayors Getting Murdered? Why Are So Many Mexican Mayors Getting Murdered?
A staggering number of mayors have been brutally killed in the past few years—and there’s no end in sight. What's going on?
Aug 8, 2025 / Oscar Lopez
The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta
Haley Cohen Gilliland’s A Flower Traveled in My Blood looks at the efforts of a human rights group to find the children and grandchildren who were disappeared by a dictatorship.
Jul 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jacob Sugarman
The Trump Administration Is Reviving Institutionalized Torture The Trump Administration Is Reviving Institutionalized Torture
The ambient threat of torture is a form of social control, encouraging everyone else to comply with and bow down before the regime.
Jul 17, 2025 / Rebecca Gordon
What Trump’s Cuba Policy Should Be to Advance US Interests What Trump’s Cuba Policy Should Be to Advance US Interests
The danger of “maximum pressure” vs. the promise of “pragmatic engagement.”
Jul 16, 2025 / Peter Kornbluh
Militarism Has Long Worked to Shield Antisemitism Militarism Has Long Worked to Shield Antisemitism
From the Cold War till Donald Trump, there’s always been a special dispensation for hawkish bigots.
Jul 14, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.) Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)
Now it’s aiming at Cuba’s international medical missions.
Jul 9, 2025 / Marc Frank
Democracy Gave Us This. There Has to Be a Better Way. Democracy Gave Us This. There Has to Be a Better Way.
Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past 40 years have proved that democracy comes at a great cost to those most marginalized.
Jul 3, 2025 / Nicole Froio
Why We Must Keep Talking About Abortion Pills Why We Must Keep Talking About Abortion Pills
As part of a delegation to Brazil, I saw how our countries’ respective struggles to maintain and expand reproductive justice are really part of the same fight.
Jun 16, 2025 / Regina Mahone
How to Save the Amazon How to Save the Amazon
Listen to the people who live there, the slain journalist Dom Phillips advised.
Jun 12, 2025 / Jonathan Watts