Austere “shock therapy” after the Cold War only shocked the East into reaction. In the West, the corporate political center ultimately did the same.
Issues / Human Rights
Can the written word bridge our aching divides? Experiments are underway in some of the world’s most combustible conflict zones.
America's drone wars have gotten deadlier under Trump, but the Trump-first news cycle makes highlighting the human cost extremely difficult.
Lower courts are slowly but steadily eroding the legal basis for some of the most reactionary war on terror policies.
Companies willingly censor or condemn free speech to retain market share in authoritarian countries. Just ask Daryl Morey.
In countries like Peru, extractive industries contract police to suppress Indigenous protesters and detain international observers — including me.
The International Labor Organization adopted a new Convention on workplace harassment. It’s time for the United States to ratify.
It is sickening that the U.S. would deliver the Kurds to Turkish violence, but that doesn't mean we should embrace the U.S. presence in Syria.
From Brazil to India to the United States, extractive industries have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments waging war on minority populations.
Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden.