Of the 60-some countries holding elections this year, many confront serious authoritarian threats that go beyond the names on the ballot.
Protecting Democracy — Beyond Who Wins
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Latin America & Caribbean
Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement Turns Forty
Rural land concentration compounds inequality and threatens democracy. Through grassroots land reform, this movement offers hope.
Labor and Green Colonialism in the Global South
What will happen to workers in the transition to clean energy?
Guatemala and El Salvador: Contradictions of International Support
In stark contrast to the international response to defend the democratic process in Guatemala, there is a deafening silence regarding the erosion of democracy and human rights in El Salvador.
Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another
In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.
Could the U.S. Become Involved in a War Between Venezuela and Guyana?
Oil is at the heart of the dispute.
The Return of the Far Right
The recent electoral victories of Javier Milei in Argentina and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands suggest that the world has not yet reached peak populism.
Remembering Salvador Allende and the Chilean Counterrevolution
It wasn’t only the United States that overthrew the Chilean leader.
The New Russian Presence in Cuba
Right-wing Russians want to push Cuba toward a neoliberal economy.
Cuba 1962 and Ukraine 2022
The confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union in 1962 holds important lessons for addressing the potential for nuclear escalation today in Ukraine.