When Luis “Gege” Gonzaga da Silva, historic leader of the Central dos Movimentos Populares (People’s Movements Central/CMP), returned to Brazil after living for years in Venezuela, he spoke at a ...

It’s almost impossible to fathom the extent of the fall of democracy in our nation in one year — but 2025 indeed saw an assault on our freedoms across the ...

For a country so upset about recognition being afforded peoples under their thumb and control, the Israelis have decided to get into the state recognition ...

On a cold January afternoon outside City Hall, Zohran Mamdani stepped into that unfinished struggle. As he raised his right hand and took the oath of office as mayor of New York City—the first Muslim ...

Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy. New York: OR Books, 2025. 534pp. $26 +++ More than a half ...

The cocksure boast that the US will "run" Venezuela appears to be another Trumpian fantasy. It’s impossible to “run a country ...

Trump has said that he intends to "run Venezuela." That should come as a surprise to the thousands of Venezuelans who have taken to the streets to ...

With sex work (prostitution) legal in some parts of Europe, one place in the US and many parts of the world, questions about ...

Donald Trump views armed dominance as the essential element of U.S. policy in the global arena.  The New York Times and the Washington Post support his ...

I listened to the January 3 press conference with a knot in my stomach. As a Venezuelan American with family, memories, and a living connection to the country being spoken about as if it were a ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (an agency that is subject to drastic cuts in Trump’s FY2026 budget) from October 2024 to ...

The year 2025 ends the way Donald Trump began his foray into politics: full-fledged, unapologetic racism. Team Trump is ...