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