Regions and Countries

The Guggenheim Doesn’t Want Labor Activists Interfering With Its Luxurious Abu Dhabi Outpost

The Guggenheim Doesn’t Want Labor Activists Interfering With Its Luxurious Abu Dhabi Outpost The Guggenheim Doesn’t Want Labor Activists Interfering With Its Luxurious Abu Dhabi Outpost

The Guggenheim is building a museum in the United Arab Emirates, and no longer wants to hear what activists think about it.

Apr 25, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Immigrants Are Dying In Detention While ICE Ignores Its Own Medical Standards

Immigrants Are Dying In Detention While ICE Ignores Its Own Medical Standards Immigrants Are Dying In Detention While ICE Ignores Its Own Medical Standards

A new report demonstrates how medical negligence played a significant role in many detention center deaths.

Apr 25, 2016 / Raul Grijalva

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

National Bird

When Drone Operators Become Collateral Damage When Drone Operators Become Collateral Damage

In a new documentary, drone operators tell the truth about the job that’s destroying not just their targets but themselves.

Apr 21, 2016 / Pratap Chatterjee

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

Ethnic Armenian soldiers stand next to a cannon

Why Do Neo–Cold Warriors Want Another Proxy Fight With Russia? Why Do Neo–Cold Warriors Want Another Proxy Fight With Russia?

The recent conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is a case study in how anti-Putin rhetoric obscures what is really going on.

Apr 19, 2016 / Pietro A. Shakarian

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

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

An Israeli strike over Gaza City

Bernie Is Speaking the Truth About Israel-Palestine Bernie Is Speaking the Truth About Israel-Palestine

Why did he suspend his staffer for doing the same?

Apr 15, 2016 / Ali Gharib

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

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