Yi San is a freelance writer based in New York.
Donald Trump is sending thousands of troops to the southern border to confront the migrant caravan. Here, in a joint statement, two antiwar veterans call on US soldiers to defy their commander in chief’s deployment order.
Even before Jair Bolsonaro’s rise, Latin America’s militaries had been regaining power through the court system.
Across Europe, a rising far right is on the offensive against LGBT people.
In the aftermath of his defeat to far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential elections, Fernando Haddad looks back to the days of the 1980s Workers Party.
Despite breathless claims of a deepening political cold war, Democrats made gains this month in every Republican-leaning voting group.
On Tuesday, Floridians voted to largely end felon disenfranchisement in the state. It was a huge win — and it showed the importance of multiracial, class-based coalitions.
Jeff Sessions’ tenure as attorney general was vastly more detrimental to democracy and the rule of law than shuttering Mueller’s investigation could ever be. No one should be nostalgic for his tenure.
Harley-Davidson is one of most iconic “American” companies in America. What does work on its shop floor look like?
One hundred years ago today, radical sailors, soldiers, and workers in Germany rose up to put an end to the carnage of World War I. And the revolutionary upheaval had only just begun.
Podemos’s backing for Spain’s Socialist cabinet risks making it a prop to the institutions it once rebelled against. Yet it has also imposed its own stamp on the government’s agenda.
Political cinema can sometimes be too highbrow for a mass audience. But in the 1960s and early ’70s, French-Greek director Costa-Gavras showed that films with a revolutionary message can also be popular.
The nurses union-backed Question 1 would have established safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in Massachusetts — which is exactly why a hospital lobby group spent more than $30 million against it.
Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina once again handed control to rival nationalists. But low turnout and weak social movements also show how institutionalized sectarianism hollows out democracy.
Yesterday’s midterms were a rebuke to Trump. But America’s decades-long shift to the right won’t be undone with Democratic Party liberalism.
By running to the right, Democrats insist on losing twice: at the polls and in constructing an inspiring agenda. Bold left-wing politics are our only hope for long-term, substantive victory.
From left-wing ballot measures to socialists in the House, things are slowly — but surely — moving our way.
Last night’s elections were an important repudiation of Trump — and another confirmation that voters will embrace left-wing policies over watered-down centrism.
Pundits analyzing Britain’s Leave vote obsess over everything but what mattered: decades of economic decay in declining regions.
If Democrats don’t perform well today, they’ll only have themselves to blame.
Electoral work is important. But the point isn’t just to win office — it’s to build movements and challenge capitalism.