The region faces a choice between top-down “Green growth” and bottom-up efforts to transform economies.
Building a Post-Extractivist Future for Latin America
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Labor, Trade, & Finance
The Terrifying World of 2025
Imagine that the current attacks on experts and expertise morph into a full-blown MAGA Cultural Revolution in 2025…
A Wounded But Still Dangerous Burmese Python
Corporations want what Myanmar has, and NGOs are going after those corporations.
Bin Laden and Trump: Two Bookends to America’s Imperial Decline
What we can learn from the 20 years between the 9/11 attacks and the January 6 coup attempt.
A Few Magnificent Things That Happened in 2021
Feeling bleak? Well, 2021 wasn’t all bad — here are a few astounding things ordinary people won at home and abroad.
Greed Is Prolonging the Pandemic
The longer it takes the world to get vaccinated, the more variants we’ll see.
How to Cut $1 Trillion from the Pentagon
A CBO report requested by Bernie Sanders lays out three options for a modest Pentagon trim over the next decade. Can we pull it off?
Missing from the Climate Talks: Corporate Powers to Sue Governments That Limit Pollution
Allowing extractive industries to file expensive lawsuits over environmental regulations could undermine whatever agreements might be reached at COP26 in Glasgow.
The United States of Tax Havens
The Pandora Papers reveal how billionaires, oligarchs, and despots the world over exploit America’s patchwork of tax havens.
Latin America Should Withdraw from the World Bank’s Harsh Trade Court
A secretive World Bank tribunal lets multinational corporations sue governments over basic regulations. Mexico should lead a Latin American exodus.