In 2009, a coup in Honduras overthrew the government of Manuel Zelaya, who was really just a rich caudillo of his own, but who had been sort of starting to ally with Hugo Chavez. This led to widespread condemnation of the coup on the left....
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This is by far the most revolting nomination of the Biden administration, something so horrible and unnecessary that it's almost impossible to wrap my head around it. President Joe Biden.
New York Jets owner Woody Johnson speaks during a press conference in April at the team's practice facility in New Jersey One of the many ways the strongest nation in the.
“Is Reactionary Populism a Form of Fascism?” The real answer is the bad arguments made along the way
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over...
Naval Historical Center photo 96974, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Paul's post about David Remnick's interview of Stephen Kotkin reminds me of another interview that Kotkin recorded in February. In.
Taras Kovalchuk's apartment is located near a regional administration building that was hit in a Russian military attack [Taras Kovalchuk/Al Jazeera] I recently released a "special" episode of Whiskey and.
On Wednesday, I participated in a Quincy Institute virtual roundtable on "The Summit for Democracy" It was a bit odd. I'm pretty sure that I was supposed to play "liberal internationalist with progressive characteristics" and defend the summit, but my assessment runs more along the...
I've previously written about "great-power conflict" as a framework for U.S. foreign policy, so it's no secret that I'm not a fan. There's a new piece in The American Prospect.
So often, we frame the fight against climate change as a series of consumer decisions. That's not completely inaccurate; certainly consumer decisions are part of the problem. But it goes.
Good Nation piece on the how the U.S. increasingly gets the governments of Mexico and Central America to do its dirty deeds of keeping migrants out of the country for it. On January 18, hundreds of Guatemalan soldiers armed with batons and wooden poles, backed...
I can see why a lot of Global South nations might actually prefer to deal with the Chinese than the Americans. Whereas the Chinese are at least consistent, American policy.
... or at least as a one-sided Cold War, with the leader of the other side focused on his dreams of a Moscow hotel and hoping for another electoral assist..