Trump Is Pushing the World Closer to Nuclear Peril Trump Is Pushing the World Closer to Nuclear Peril
It is not too late to end this dangerous status quo. Let’s demand a better future, one that is free from nuclear weapons.
Oct 30, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Brazil’s Bolsonaro Has Supercharged Right-Wing Cultural Politics Brazil’s Bolsonaro Has Supercharged Right-Wing Cultural Politics
The new president-elect is an agent of the world’s most reactionary tendencies, many of them exported from the United States.
Oct 29, 2018 / Greg Grandin
With Just Days to the Midterms, Russiagate Is MIA With Just Days to the Midterms, Russiagate Is MIA
And that’s a good thing.
Oct 29, 2018 / Aaron Maté
A Letter to Brazil, From a Friend Living Under Duterte A Letter to Brazil, From a Friend Living Under Duterte
Brazil is on the verge of electing a Duterte-style fascist. What can the left do?
Oct 26, 2018 / Walden Bello
Brazil’s Northeastern Resistance Brazil’s Northeastern Resistance
Brazil’s northeast overwhelmingly rejected Bolsonaro’s far-right agenda; now leftists worry that they aren’t welcome in their own country.
Oct 26, 2018 / Kaspar Loftin
Populism’s Promise: Can Germany’s ‘Rise Up’ Unite the Democratic Masses? Populism’s Promise: Can Germany’s ‘Rise Up’ Unite the Democratic Masses?
This new left formation is trying to win back the blue-collar and middle-class voters who have drifted into the far right’s camp.
Oct 25, 2018 / Paul Hockenos
The Pentagon Has Won Its Most Important War The Pentagon Has Won Its Most Important War
Oct 25, 2018 / William Astore
In Naguib Mahfouz’s World In Naguib Mahfouz’s World
Through his massive corpus, the Egyptian novelist helped capture the startling pace and steep costs of a nation in pursuit of independence.
Oct 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Ursula Lindsey
Trump and Bolton Kill a Historic Nuclear-Arms-Control Agreement Trump and Bolton Kill a Historic Nuclear-Arms-Control Agreement
The new Cold War just got colder.
Oct 24, 2018 / James Carden
The Abolition of Nuclear Abolitionism? The Abolition of Nuclear Abolitionism?
President Trump’s withdrawal from the INF Treaty nullifies a historic precedent.
Oct 24, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen