The global market is scrambling to extract Argentine and Chilean lithium. Argentine president Javier Milei has unleashed a frenzy of corporate profit, while Chile’s Gabriel Boric is demanding that his country get its fair share.
Colombia recently discovered mass graves in a 150-year-old cemetery in the city of Cúcuta. The bodies, many of which were smuggled in during this century, reveal connections between right-wing militias, business, and the state.
The promise of digitization in Africa is a ruse.
The overseas wing of Narendra Modi’s paramilitary organization is raking in members, dollars, and influence around the globe.
American evangelicals have spent millions exporting Christian conservatism to Africa.
Michel Houellebecq’s chronicles of modern discontent have made him one of the most renowned writers of the century as well as a far-right prophet. Yet liberalism’s fiercest critic still hasn’t found his alternative future.
For decades, liberals have hoped for the de-Christianization of the American Right. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
When German fascism came to power, it interrupted a revolutionary experiment in freedom exemplified by two classical composers: Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler.
Except this time, a bit more off-key than usual.