Without professional enablers, corruption, money laundering, and the financing of human rights abuses would be much more difficult.
Nine Years After Bahrain’s Uprising, Its Human Rights Crisis Has Only Worsened
Despite well documented abuses in the kingdom, the spigot of aid and arms from the U.S. and U.K. remains open.
Ireland’s Election — and Brexit — Put Reunification Back on the Table
Prospects for unification will have less to do with ancient hatreds than with health care, schools, housing, and jobs.
Goodbye to All That: The UK after Brexit
Brexit could see the UK eventually lose Scotland, Northern Ireland, and a great deal of its prosperity.
Will 2020 Be Another Victory Year for Trump and Brexit?
Donald Trump and Boris Johnson can claim victories in early 2020, but Brexit and impeachment may come back to haunt them and the far right later in the year.
Trump, Brexit: Where’s the Backlash?
Despite blatant corruption and ineptitude, the far right on both sides of the Atlantic continues to reap harvests from its failures.
Brexit Won’t Deliver Sovereignty — And Neither Will Far-Right Movements Anywhere
The new right campaigns everywhere on a platform of “sovereignty,” while leaving countries more exposed to the dictates of global markets than ever.
The Conservatism of Impeachment
Impeachment may be necessary, even noble. Yet we don’t need to merely restore our political order — we need to overturn it.
The Art of the Back-Pedal
From the U.S. to the U.K. to Turkey, it is a hallmark of right-wing populists to make a preposterous policy and then be forced to retreat.
Boris Johnson, Voice of the People? Give Me a Break.
As the UK moves towards a People vs. Parliament election, the elitist defender of the big banks will need quite a transformation.