The leaders of fossil fuel companies are personally incentivized to keep their firms on a path of climate destruction.
The Rise and Fall of Latin America’s Most Successful Progressive Party
Brazil’s Workers’ Party was once the pride of the New Left for an entire hemisphere. Now its 13-year rule hangs by a thread.
A Military-Backed Comedian Will Be Guatemala’s Next President. Activists Aren’t Laughing.
Amid rising violence against human rights defenders, Guatemalan activists are counting on an emboldened civil society to take on their next president.
Guatemala’s President Is Now in Jail. Some Americans Should Join Him.
An investigation into who authorized the U.S. military and intelligence agencies to equip, train, and assist the Guatemalan army in its war crimes should follow its president’s trial for corruption.
What Happened to Brazil?
Latin America’s largest country once looked ascendant. Now it’s been laid low by widespread violence, structural racism, endemic corruption, and external economic shocks.
The Rise and Fall of Guatemala’s Most Feared General
Otto Pérez Molina started his rise to power during a U.S.-backed dirty war. The uprising against impunity that brought him down has been waiting in the wings ever since.
Guatemala’s Civil Society Just Did the Impossible
Guatemalans banded together to depose a corrupt administration with dark connections to human rights violations. But another election looms, and the candidates don’t inspire confidence.
Expect the Barometer to Rise in Mexico
Over 90 percent of Mexicans have lost faith in their political parties. What comes next?
America’s Hydra Problem in the Middle East
ISIS may be more famous for cutting off heads, but it’s Washington that’s learning the hard way not to slash first and ask questions later.
Whither Ukraine’s Revolution?
Ukraine faces an almost impossible task: carefully balancing its internal contradictions while initiating monumental reforms.