Four years since its devastating earthquake, progress in Haiti is slow and reconstruction efforts are lacking at best.
Haiti: Billions in Aid, Pennies in Progress Since Earthquake
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Labor, Trade, & Finance
Can Love Save Europe?
Blind to the political and economic sources of their troubles, many Europeans are lashing out at gays, Jews, migrants, and the European project itself.
Algeria’s Energy Company Sonatrach: 50 Years of Corruption
The 50th birthday of Sonatrach is scarcely cause for celebration.
Typhoons and Tigers: Why Taiwan Has Outpaced the Philippines
If it weren’t for decades of Western-backed political and economic repression, the Philippines might have joined the Asian Tigers years ago.
Zapatistas at Twenty
There are two tests of social change movements: endurance and regeneration. After two decades, Mexico’s Zapatista movement can now say it passed both.
Open Fire and Open Markets: The Asia-Pacific Pivot and Trans-Pacific Partnership
Thomas Friedman once said the hidden hand of the market needs the hidden fist of the military. The TPP and the Obama administration’s Pacific Pivot pack both.
NAFTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule
NAFTA gave multinational corporations the right to sue governments to block regulations they don’t like, undermining democracy and local sovereignty.
Reasons To Be Cheerful
Before we get cynical about 2014, let’s recount the good news from 2013: declining U.S. militarism, a resurgence of diplomacy, and a more forceful global discussion about inequality.
Tax Dollars for Sweatshops
While feigning outrage at worker abuse in Bangladesh, the U.S. government has been quietly supporting the same sweatshop factories used by Wal-Mart and the Gap.
Ten Good Things about 2013
2013 had its fair share of bad news, but it was also a year of extraordinary activism.