The Honduran Government Is Trying to Steal an Election The Honduran Government Is Trying to Steal an Election
It’s increasingly clear that a majority of voters have had enough of US-backed President Juan Orlando Hernández.
Dec 6, 2017 / Miguel Salazar
Who Could Have Predicted Trump? Poland, and Hungary, and Slovakia. Who Could Have Predicted Trump? Poland, and Hungary, and Slovakia.
After the Cold War, right-wing populists surged to power by exploiting economic uncertainty.
Dec 5, 2017 / John Feffer
Trump Is Now Openly Supporting Fascists Trump Is Now Openly Supporting Fascists
Britain First is and always has been deeply fascist in inclination and action—and now the president is retweeting its leader’s hate speech.
Nov 30, 2017 / Sasha Abramsky
Trump Begins to Feel His Way Toward a Post-American World Trump Begins to Feel His Way Toward a Post-American World
Whether or not by design, Trump seems to recognize that Xi’s dynamically emergent China has to be accommodated, not resisted.
Nov 30, 2017 / Patrick Lawrence
‘The Party Continues’: Don’t Expect Big Changes in Southern Africa ‘The Party Continues’: Don’t Expect Big Changes in Southern Africa
Robert Mugabe and Isabel dos Santos might be out, but the region’s ruling parties aren’t going anywhere.
Nov 29, 2017 / Judith Matloff
A US Immigration Case Offers a Rare Day in Court for Victims of Liberian War Crimes A US Immigration Case Offers a Rare Day in Court for Victims of Liberian War Crimes
Gruesome details of Liberia’s civil wars emerge from a Philadelphia courtroom.
Nov 28, 2017 / Robbie Corey-Boulet
Trump Voters Are Ecstatic Over the President’s Performance Trump Voters Are Ecstatic Over the President’s Performance
He’s totally owning the libs.
Nov 28, 2017 / Tom Tomorrow
Saudi Arabia’s Rivalry With Iran Is Further Destabilizing the Middle East Saudi Arabia’s Rivalry With Iran Is Further Destabilizing the Middle East
Riyadh’s divide-and-rule strategy has yielded few successes, and it hasn’t made a dent in Iran’s regional influence.
Nov 27, 2017 / Juan Cole
Russia Is Not the ‘No. 1 Threat’—or Even Among the Top 5 Russia Is Not the ‘No. 1 Threat’—or Even Among the Top 5
By declaring Putin’s Russia to be the greatest danger to America, the political-media establishment itself is endangering US national security.
Nov 27, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen
Robert Mugabe and the Poisonous Legacy of British Colonialism Robert Mugabe and the Poisonous Legacy of British Colonialism
Britain left behind two evil legacies when Zimbabwe gained independence: the harsh lesson that violence works, and a grotesquely unequal distribution of farmland.
Nov 21, 2017 / James North