What Brexit and ISIL Have in Common
August 29, 2016 | Both phenomena are products of an idyllic restoration of a lost order, using regressive arcadias as a defense mechanism that can lead to radicalism and extremism.
Articles by Anthony Fenton
Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back.
February 5, 2016 | For most of human history, life-saving drugs were a public good. Now they’re only good for shareholders.
Haiti’s Earthquake Was Devastating. The Cholera Epidemic Was Worse.
October 14, 2015 | If someone had poisoned New York's water supply and killed 9,000 people, it would have been the most litigated public health disaster of all time. But when it happened in Haiti? Nothing.
Obama in Canada
February 24, 2009 | Obama makes his first foreign visit as president and gets the green light on Afghan escalation.
Bush, Obama, and the ‘Freedom Agenda’
January 27, 2009 | President Obama is poised to continue the Bush administration's "freedom agenda." And that means scaled-up counter-insurgency.
The Price of Failure in Kashmir
May 1, 2002 | While the long-term challenge is to find a stable, final, and just solution to this problem, the short- and medium-term need is to find ways of de-nuclearizing South Asia, and to separate the militaries of the two countries perhaps through some kind of tr
India’s Politics of Brinksmanship on Kashmir
January 9, 2002 | Kashmir will continue to bedevil India-Pakistan relations.