What’s Going to Happen to Taiwan?
After the invasions of Ukraine and Gaza, do borders still mean anything to powerful countries?
Overspending on the Pentagon Is Stealing Our Future
The military-industrial complex is the winner (not you).
U.S. Officials Care More About Protecting Oil Tankers Than Palestinians
The United States is demanding an end to attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, but it won’t support a ceasefire in Gaza.
Labor and Green Colonialism in the Global South
What will happen to workers in the transition to clean energy?
Cubans Are Suffering. Biden Needs to End the Embargo.
Biden should reverse Trump’s sanctions and call an end to 60 years of brutal economic warfare.
The Politics of American Protest, with a North Korean Twist
The right wing has attacked Gwen Berry for her Olympic trial protest. A North Korean defector has joined that chorus.
America’s Afghan War Is Ending. What About Iraq — and Iran?
Even as Biden sticks to the Afghanistan withdrawal, he’s launching strikes in Iraq and delaying a return to the Iran deal.
Excessive Corporate Power Breeds Political Repression
In the face of extractive industries’ enormous economic clout, Central Americans are facing increasing displacement and threats to their democratic rights.
Why Is Biden’s Foreign Policy So…Conventional?
America is back–to the same old, same old.
Biden’s $1.3 Trillion ‘National Security’ Budget Won’t Make Us Safer
Pouring more money into endless wars, nuclear weapons, overseas bases, and boondoggle weapons programs won’t protect anyone.
Online Gender-Based Violence Is a Nightmare Without Borders
Tech-facilitated abuses against women and girls have been particularly widespread in South Korea
The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party
The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation.
Countering the “China Threat”–At What Price?
The Pentagon is upgrading its full-spectrum dominance, with China as the primary target.
The Biden Administration and the Politics of Naming
The Biden administration’s inconsistency on what gets called a “genocide” or “war crime” reflects a longer U.S. history of politicizing international law.