Pirate Trump Pirate Trump
Donald Trump escalates Caribbean tensions with vessel attacks near Venezuela.
Dec 22, 2025 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo
Chile at the Crossroads Chile at the Crossroads
A dramatic shift to the extreme right threatens the future—and past—for human rights and accountability.
Dec 19, 2025 / Peter Kornbluh
The New Europeans, Trump-Style The New Europeans, Trump-Style
Donald Trump is sowing division in the European Union, even as he calls on it to spend more on defense.
Dec 18, 2025 / David Broder
The United States’ Hidden History of Regime Change—Revisited The United States’ Hidden History of Regime Change—Revisited
The truculent trio—Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio—do Venezuela.
Dec 18, 2025 / Barbara Koeppel
Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda
In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French
Blind to Brutality: The Palestinian Death Toll Surpasses 70,000 Blind to Brutality: The Palestinian Death Toll Surpasses 70,000
Over 70,525 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza; scholars estimate that 80 percent were civilians, largely women and children.
Dec 15, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
What to Do With the Ballroom in 2029? What to Do With the Ballroom in 2029?
Kristi Kremed.
Dec 12, 2025 / Steve Brodner
The US Is Looking More Like Putin’s Russia Every Day The US Is Looking More Like Putin’s Russia Every Day
We may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Dec 11, 2025 / Andrea Mazzarino
King of Deadly Illegal Boat Strikes King of Deadly Illegal Boat Strikes
Since September 2, the US has carried out more than 20 strikes on vessels suspected of drug trafficking in both the southern Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. At least 83 people h...
Dec 11, 2025 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo