Progressive groups are pushing a potential Biden administration to base its policies toward the region on non-intervention, cooperation, and mutual respect.
The U.S. Needs a New ‘Good Neighbor’ Policy Toward Latin America
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We Need a Progressive Alternative on Trade — and NAFTA 2.0 Isn’t It
Here’s what a progressive trade agenda that actually protects people and planet would actually look like.
Whistling by the Drug War’s Graveyard
Is Mexico winding down or winding up the drug war?
Trump’s Mexico Tariffs Are About White Nationalism, Not Trade
There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations under international law.
Central America Needs a Marshall Plan
U.S. policies helped create the refugee crisis in Central America. Better ones can help resolve it.
Hillary Clinton’s Dark Drug War Legacy in Mexico
Mexico, John M. Ackerman wrote recently for Foreign Policy, “is not a functional democracy.” Instead, it's a “repressive and corrupt” oligarchy propped up by a “blank check” from Washington. Since 2008, that blank check has come to over $2.5 billion appropriated in...
How a Little Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower
After fighting the longest war in its history, the United States stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How can this be possible? How could the world’s sole superpower have battled continuously for 15 years, deploying 100,000 of its finest troops, sacrificing...
Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back.
This commentary is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com. Along the path toward the creation of a global capitalist system, some of the most significant steps were taken by the English enclosure movement. Between the 15th to 19th centuries,...
The Ultimate Blowback from U.S. Foreign Policy? Donald Trump.
When the late Chalmers Johnson introduced the word “blowback” to describe the adverse consequences of Washington’s actions in the world, he wasn’t referring simply to the victims of U.S. imperial interventions striking back on American soil. More importantly, he saw...
10 Good Things About the Not-So-Great Year 2015
It would certainly be easy to do a piece about 10 horrible events from 2015 — from the ongoing war in Syria and the refugee crisis to the terrorist attacks in Beirut, Paris, and San Bernardino and the rise of Donald Trump and Islamophobia. But that wouldn’t be a very...