All Commentaries
Trump Rex
What a plague 2,500 years ago can tell us about our current political moment.
The World Needs a New Social Contract — Not More ‘Structural Adjustment’
The World Bank is still pretending that deregulating markets and corporations, rather than supporting ordinary people, is the way out of this crisis.
How COVID-19 Could Impact the Climate Crisis
Far-right governments are rolling back environmental regulations, while international climate talks stall amid the crisis. But climate activists see opportunity.
The Next Pandemic
We will always play catch-up with these wily viruses if we continue our all-out war on the environment.
The Coronavirus Comes for India
India’s far-right government is focused more on PR than prevention. Brave independent reporters are calling it to account.
Fighting Covid-19 — And Repression — in Kashmir
The Indian government’s repression of doctors and restrictions on the Internet could make the pandemic far deadlier in the formerly autonomous region.
Iraq’s Coronavirus Crisis Was Made Possible by Decades of War and Occupation
War and sanctions have left behind a devastated health care system.
Re-Engaging Russia
Rather than promote a new Cold War, now is the time to definitively end the last one.
Why Did Our Permanent Emergency Government Fail to Face the Emergency?
When history finally conducts an autopsy into this horrendous pandemic, the national security state that failed to protect us cannot emerge unscathed.
Cruel Immigration Policies Make the Pandemic Worse
Warehousing people in unsanitary conditions and then deporting them to poor countries is a recipe for contagion.