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China Will Decide the Fate of Ukraine
Only a decisive defeat of Putinism would offer the world some slight hope of restoring some measure of planetary balance.
John FefferBoris Johnson’s Days Are Numbered
The Tory prime minister’s ethical lapses are legion, constant, and shocking.
Gary YoungeAmerica’s Lapdog Britain Moves to Extradite Julian Assange
If President Biden really cared about press freedom, he would have canceled the extradition request months ago.
Peter OborneLatest World Coverage
In Colombia, “a Government of the Callused Hands”
In Francia Marquez’s hometown, those have suffered the brunt of the violence and inequality are welcoming a new future.
Laura Carlsen
What We Can Learn From the Last Cold War
There are indeed a number of parallels between our cold wars, old and new.
Alfred McCoy
Reviving the Bracero Program Is the Wrong Answer for Workers
Not even Biden’s own Labor Department believes that the administration’s proposal to bring in more seasonal farm labor will improve working conditions.
David BaconContinuing World Coverage
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Fernanda Melchor’s Dark Morality Plays
In her third novel, Melchor turns her allegorical powers in an even more explicitly political direction.
Nicolás Medina Mora -
June 23, 2022
NATO From Bad to Worse
It is urgent to rebuild a global peace movement opposed to all military alliances and the ongoing massive increases in defense budgets.
Gilbert Achcar -
June 22, 2022
A Peace Settlement in Ukraine
If the war is to ever end, it will have to do so through some form of pragmatic compromise.
Anatol Lieven -
June 22, 2022
The Perils of Shaping a Recalcitrant World
Relying on military power to shape events in distant countries requires very deep pockets and infinite patience—neither of which we currently possess.
Andrew J. Bacevich and Alex Jordan
US Foreign Policy
The Pentagon Gets More Money, and Americans Pay the Price
What’s all this new defense spending for?
Katrina vanden Heuvel
We Must Keep Fighting to Stop the Arms Race
Or we risk facing the unimaginable.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
What the French Really Owe Haiti
Compensation for a history suffused with violence that left physical wounds and psychological trauma.
Marlene L. DautAfrica
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June 2, 2022
Monkeypox Is Not a Gay Disease
But it has arrived in our community—and our decades of experience dealing with HIV give us the chance to get things right from the outset.
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May 10, 2022
There’s Genocide in Tigray, but Nobody’s Talking About it
The reasons range from Internet shutdowns to just pure racism.
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April 19, 2022
The American Media’s Approach to War Coverage Needs to Be Fundamentally Reimagined
We need more reporting on forgotten conflicts—and more stories that spotlight how war ravages people and leads to atrocities.
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April 15, 2022
Jackie Robinson, Pioneer of BDS
The Dodgers great didn’t just break Major League Baseball’s color line. He was also an activist whose legacy reaches from Brooklyn to South Africa to Palestine.
Robert Ross
Asia
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June 8, 2022
America Has Its Own Problems to Worry About
Neither Russian “fascism” nor its Chinese variant poses a significant danger to American democracy, which is actually threatened from within.
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June 3, 2022
The Dangers of Biden’s Lesser-Evilism in India
Building an anti-China coalition, the president turns a blind eye to Narendra Modi’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
Jeet Heer -
June 3, 2022
The Radical, Transnational Legacy of Tiananmen Workers
China’s labor-led protests modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals.
Promise Li -
May 31, 2022
The Biden Administration’s Kayfabe Cold War With China
Though the president’s “pivot to Asia” amounts to little more than saber-rattling, the risks remain very real.
Jeet Heer
Europe
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June 17, 2022
The US and Europe Aren’t Interested in Diplomacy
A conversation with Noam Chomsky on the war in Ukraine.
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June 16, 2022
In Ukraine’s Cultural Capital, “Giselle” Goes to War
Until the Russian invasion is over, art and culture in Ukraine remain on a combat footing.
Nicolas Niarchos -
June 9, 2022
Can a United Left Win in Macron’s France?
France’s left unity coalition is poised to send a crop of activists into the National Assembly, though critics say it could be even more representative of its diverse base.
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June 7, 2022
The End of the Nordic Ideal
Finland and Sweden long held that the Nordic social model was incompatible with NATO membership. The invasion of Ukraine has changed that.
Heikki Patomäki
Latin America
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June 2, 2022
Raw Speech, Raw Stories: A Conversation With Fernanda Melchor
Her new novel, Paradais, is an explosive exploration of the boundaries of the Spanish language and the the banal brutality of everyday violence.
Lucas Iberico Lozada -
June 1, 2022
“The Streets Belong to the People” of Rio de Janeiro
The foliões were not dissuaded from gathering after the mayor called off the street parties earlier this year because of Covid. And the party isn’t over.
Nicole Froio -
May 20, 2022
Biden Is Finally Moving Toward Engagement With Cuba
As the island struggles to emerge from a dire economic crisis, the White House is acknowledging that the policies it inherited could lead to disaster.
Peter Kornbluh -
May 18, 2022
Gleaning Hope From Latin America’s Abortion Rights Revolution
After centuries of living under some of the most draconian abortion laws imaginable, millions of women in Latin America now have access to legal abortion. How did they do it?
Omar G. Encarnación
Middle East
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June 7, 2022
Alaa Abd el-Fattah and the Hope of a Generation
In the essays of You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, the Egyptian activist and blogger reminds us that democracy flourishes and falters at the interstices, the in-between spaces, and the squares where revolutions take place.
Hussein Omar -
May 20, 2022
George W. Bush Stumbles Into a Moment of Truth
The former president’s gaffe reminds us that his launching of a criminal war still demands justice.
Jeet Heer -
May 20, 2022
AIPAC’s Dangerous New Antidemocratic Project
In the name of supporting Israel, the lobbying group has created a new super PAC that is only too happy to boost candidates that threaten our democracy.
Ezra Oliff-Lieberman -
May 18, 2022
To Honor Shireen Abu Akleh’s Life, Demand Accountability for Her Death
There needs to be an independent investigation by an international body into Shireen’s death—otherwise, it will be the latest example of Israel’s impunity.
Laila Al-Arian and Dalia Hatuqa