Canada’s Hemisphere
Canadian foreign policy sees Latin America as a playground for its most voracious corporations.
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When Abstention Is Progress
The recent UN vote on Israeli settlements is belated and toothless, but it gives a boost to anti-occupation activists.
Organize the Minor Leagues
Minor league baseball players get paid little and enjoy even fewer labor rights. The only solution is organizing.
Colombia’s Future Is at Stake
With the Right threatening a fragile peace, today's elections are the most important in Colombia’s recent history.
A Potential Breakthrough in Mexico
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is poised to win Mexico's presidency. He's promised Mexicans a new country — can he deliver?
When Union Leaders Don’t Want to Strike
Some New York union leaders have joined Governor Cuomo against public-sector workers' right to strike. They're picking political favors over bottom-up organizing.
The Debt We Owe Central America
The migrant caravan is full of people fleeing a world of inequality and violence that US elites helped create. We can't turn our backs on them.
Latin America’s Re-Militarization
Even before Jair Bolsonaro's rise, Latin America's militaries had been regaining power through the court system.
Asylum for the Few
US immigration and refugee policy has long been determined by what is most politically beneficial to the US — not who actually deserves protection.
An Authoritarian Bromance
Trump and Bolsonaro aren’t just united by their shared prejudices, but by a sense of common purpose.
Amazon Is Waging Class War
Let's call Amazon's cancellation of its New York City headquarters what it was: a capital strike. It's a demonstration of why we must overcome capitalists' power over investment.
The Red Menace Is Real
Donald Trump is right: the biggest threat to his administration right now isn't from liberals. It's from Bernie Sanders and democratic socialists.
Machete and Sickle
One hundred years ago, the Third International inspired the creation of communist parties across Latin America. Yet only its demise would liberate them from stifling Russian control.
Labor Unions of the World, Unite
Labor is struggling with how to build international working-class power. The United Electrical Workers offer a model of just that.
Closing the Russiagate
With the end of Mueller’s inquiry, our long, national hallucination is finally over. But the damage done by neocons and liberal conspiracy theorists is just beginning.
Iran Is Being Threatened by John Bolton and His Rogue State
As Trump careens toward a war with Iran, he’s managed to prove one thing: any country that’s the target of US hostility would be crazy not to acquire nuclear weapons.
War With Iran Would Be a Murderous Disaster
The case against Iran in 2019 looks a lot like the case against Iraq in 2002. Going to war would be a bloody, murderous disaster.
Give Us AOC’s 70% Tax Rates — But Save the 1950s Nostalgia
Pining for the high marginal tax rates of the 1950s doesn't do us any good. The rich still avoided paying taxes in those days — and the taxes they did pay went to funding Cold War militarism, not domestic spending.
Why I’m a Socialist
I believe in democracy, freedom, and humans' ability to create a better world than the one we have now. That's why I'm a socialist.
“Candidate Lightfoot and Mayor Lightfoot Seem to Be Very Different People”
Lori Lightfoot, Chicago's new mayor, ran as an anti-machine candidate that would shake things up in the deeply unequal city. But instead she's employing the same team as Rahm Emanuel — which could force the Chicago Teachers Union to call another strike.