It’s beautiful that there’s an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?
Ben & Jerry’s Is Carrying On a Proud Tradition of Boycotts for Human Rights
From the Boston Tea Party to the Montgomery bus boycott, an ice cream boycott for Palestinian rights fits right in with social movement history.
Can We Demilitarize U.S. Policy in Africa?
The House passed a bill that sounds good, but doesn’t end Washington’s failed, militarized approach or get to root problems.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back in the Struggle Against Anti-Democratic Corporate Trade Rules
Pakistan is the latest country to reject letting private investors sue governments in tribunals. But Ecuador is back-tracking and the lawsuits continue to proliferate.
Biden’s Climate Pledges Are Incompatible with His Belligerence Toward China
Bipartisan belligerence and spiraling Pentagon budgets threaten to undermine global climate action just when we need it most.
Avoiding the Robot Apocalypse
We’d better control machines before they control us.
Cubans Are Suffering. Biden Needs to End the Embargo.
Biden should reverse Trump’s sanctions and call an end to 60 years of brutal economic warfare.
The Politics of American Protest, with a North Korean Twist
The right wing has attacked Gwen Berry for her Olympic trial protest. A North Korean defector has joined that chorus.
America’s Afghan War Is Ending. What About Iraq — and Iran?
Even as Biden sticks to the Afghanistan withdrawal, he’s launching strikes in Iraq and delaying a return to the Iran deal.
Why Is Biden’s Foreign Policy So…Conventional?
America is back–to the same old, same old.