More Butterflies, Fewer Billionaires: Unrigging the Global Economy
The world has one last shot at reducing global inequality and saving the planet.
Climate Is the Fight of Our Lifetime. Our Federal Budget Should Reflect That.
More than half of discretionary spending goes to the military. Only a tiny fraction addresses the most urgent threat to our security.
U.S. Claims to Central Pacific Flout International Law
There is no legal basis for the United States to control the large oceanic area that includes the compact states.
How Brute Violence Became Egypt’s Answer to Virtually Everything
Ten years ago, the country’s security forces killed over 800 protestors in broad daylight. Today, no critic is spared in the dictatorship, which receives ample U.S. military aid.
A Global Maui Moment
The most devastating war on the planet is the war waged against the planet.
Challenging Mining Corporations at the International Level
What can you do when you’ve run out of options at the local and national levels?
From the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
A ban is within reach, but only with renewed public pressure.
Remembering Salvador Allende and the Chilean Counterrevolution
It wasn’t only the United States that overthrew the Chilean leader.
Africa at the Crossroads
The recent coup in Niger has been seen in the West as a setback for democracy. The reality is more complex.
How Modi’s Russia-Ukraine Policy Coopted India’s Opposition
India’s democrats have missed a chance to attack a policy that helps Putin’s war and undermines India’s democracy
Anger Brews in Thailand as Establishment Unites to Foil Change
Thaksin and the populists are back but they’re no longer so popular.
The New Russian Presence in Cuba
Right-wing Russians want to push Cuba toward a neoliberal economy.
Believe It or Not, the G20 Agrees on (Some) Human Rights Issues
But the bloc will be a more credible voice if its members, from the U.S. to host India, confront their own major rights concerns.
Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine Is Morally Bankrupt
But there’s still hope for the global movement to ban these indiscriminate killers.