Against the Grain
A series of natural disasters has heralded the worst global rice shortage in 20 years.
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Embattled Reporter
We talk to journalist Andrew Cockburn about the Iraq invasion and the new Middle East.
Only You Can Save Darfur
“Save Darfur” perfected a simple message: genocide is bad and must be stopped. But rather than examining the United States’ role in Sudan, it created a spectacle of American power and hierarchy.
Issue 59: Dossier
A quick guide to border hopping.
Tech Turncoats
Elon Musk isn’t the only Silicon Valley somebody to leave the Dems in the dust.
We Can Only Go Beyond Communism by Coming to Terms With Its History
Thirty years ago today, the Soviet Union collapsed. Twentieth-century communism should be understood in all its complexity, as revolution and regime, a spur to anti-colonialism and an alternative form of social democracy.
With Biden in the White House, Will the American Media Go Back to Brunch?
Much of the American mainstream media adopted a highly combative, watchdog approach to covering the Trump White House. Will the media abandon that approach under a President Joe Biden?
Australia Has Engineered New Levels of Border Cruelty — and Exported Them to Europe
Australia’s notoriously cruel border regime once made it a human rights pariah among rich nations. Now, its policies of “pushbacks” and long-term detainment have been adopted in Europe.
Workers Shouldn’t Have to Pay the Costs of the Energy Crisis
Olaf Scholz’s government has announced relief measures to help Germans pay their energy bills. But what they really need is wage rises — and government action that stops gas giants from profiting from this crisis.
Joe Biden Promised Change. He Hasn’t Delivered.
From immigration and foreign policy to the pandemic and climate, Joe Biden promised a break with the policies of the Donald Trump era. What we've mostly gotten, however, is a change in rhetoric and the status quo in substance.
Nazism’s Political Victims Should Never Be Forgotten
Hitler’s forces killed almost a million civilians because of their political affiliation — most of them socialists and communists. Yet official commemoration in Germany and beyond rarely grants proper recognition to the Nazi mass murder of worker-militants.
Don’t Mourn “Democracy Promotion”
The National Endowment for Democracy is a vehicle for Putin-style foreign meddling. Yet some liberals are now bemoaning Trump’s assault on the organization.
The Lack of Hospital Beds Is a National Crisis
America is experiencing a massive shortfall in hospital beds, harmful to both COVID and non-COVID patients needing care. But the pandemic didn’t create the hospital bed crisis — it exacerbated an existing one that our government refuses to address.
In Cyprus, the Golden Passports Scheme Shows Us How Capitalism and Corruption Go Hand in Hand
Al Jazeera’s Cyprus Papers have exposed a corrupt trade that sells citizenship on the Mediterranean island. But Cyprus is no rogue state: its “golden passport” scheme is firmly rooted in the logic of global capitalism, which makes everything — including citizenship — a commodity.
Free Brittney Griner Now!
Phoenix Mercury center and WNBA legend Brittney Griner has been held in a Russian prison for nearly two months. Why did the league take so long to speak out publicly in her support?
Colonial Nostalgia Continues to Define France’s Relationship to Africa
At home, French politicians mainstream far-right conspiracies about the replacement of whites by African immigrants. Abroad, they continue to intervene militarily and economically in the continent. Both are signs of a nation unwilling to accept its decline.
Isaac Deutscher and the Fate of Polish Communism
The Polish Communists were savagely persecuted by Stalin in the 1930s, before he raised their party to power after 1945. Despite attempts at reform, their regime could never transcend its origins as a Soviet satellite state.
Belarus Is Cracking Down on Worker-Led Pro-Democracy Protest
In Belarus, a populist government that long claimed the support of its people finds itself repressing a historic protest movement — and its demands for a more democratic politics.
Justin Trudeau Has Worked With Trump to Support Regime Change
Despite its progressive veneer, the Justin Trudeau government in Canada has supported anti-democratic actions in Bolivia, Haiti, Venezuela, and elsewhere in the Americas. When it comes to foreign policy, Trudeau isn’t much different than Trump.
The Bernie Sanders Doctrine on Foreign Policy
We talked to Bernie Sanders foreign policy adviser Matt Duss about the internationalism that animated the Vermont senator’s 2020 campaign.