After Cuba, Obama Can Make History by Recognizing Palestine After Cuba, Obama Can Make History by Recognizing Palestine
Now that President Obama has broken the taboo on recognizing Cuba, he should send a US ambassador to Palestine as a prerequisite for a comprehensive peace treaty.
Dec 23, 2014 / Juan Cole
The People’s Court of Eastern Ukraine The People’s Court of Eastern Ukraine
Is rebel field commander Alexei Mozgovoi a social revolutionary or a power-hungry facilitator of mob rule?
Dec 22, 2014 / Alec Luhn
More Sanctions for Russia, More Military Aid for Kiev Will Undermine the Fragile Cease-fire More Sanctions for Russia, More Military Aid for Kiev Will Undermine the Fragile Cease-fire
Just after jettisoning one Cold War relic, President Obama gave renewed credence to another.
Dec 22, 2014 / James Carden
Is Your Favorite Chocolate the Product of Child Labor? Is Your Favorite Chocolate the Product of Child Labor?
An estimated half-million to 1.5 million children are involved in the cocoa trade.
Dec 22, 2014 / Michelle Chen
ISIS Wants You to Share This ISIS Wants You to Share This
How the well-meaning public became a handmaiden for terror.
Dec 22, 2014 / Feature / Rafia Zakaria
How the US Created a ‘Little Hiroshima’ in Central America How the US Created a ‘Little Hiroshima’ in Central America
From 1989 to 1990, thousands of civilians died and were buried in mass graves in President George H.W. Bush's search for one suspected drug trafficker.
Dec 22, 2014 / Greg Grandin
What Bernie Sanders and Dwight Eisenhower Have in Common What Bernie Sanders and Dwight Eisenhower Have in Common
“It is unacceptable that the Defense Department continues to waste massive amounts of money,” Sanders argues.
Dec 18, 2014 / John Nichols
The Biggest Lesson From the War on Terror? It Didn’t Work The Biggest Lesson From the War on Terror? It Didn’t Work
Why can’t Washington get the message?
Dec 18, 2014 / Tom Engelhardt
Why Is Ecuador Selling Its Economic and Environmental Future to China? Why Is Ecuador Selling Its Economic and Environmental Future to China?
The slick, oily underside of Correa’s “citizens’ revolution.”
Dec 18, 2014 / Andrew Ross
Why the US-Cuba Deal Really Is a Victory for the Cuban Revolution Why the US-Cuba Deal Really Is a Victory for the Cuban Revolution
The left should recall and applaud the long resistance of tiny Cuba to the northern Goliath.
Dec 17, 2014 / Tom Hayden