Winter 2024

The Dirty Little Secret of Financial Globalization

In November 1932, deputy Fabien Albertin took the floor of the National Assembly in Paris to denounce tax evasion by eminent French personalities-politicians, judges, industrialists, church dignitaries, and directors of newspapers-who were hiding their money in Switzerland. “The minister of …

The collective taxi had just passed the square, white Social Security Administration building. One of the two young men next to me asked his friend, “Do you know how much the director there earns? Five hundred thousand zaires (about $7,500 …

There’s no return to the point before Solidarity; that can never occur. The idea of ten-year cycles is not correct. There are two important differences: first, the group in power is different from any other that has held power in …

This town belongs to Roberto Suazo Cordova, the president of Honduras. The streets of La Paz are paved, though people in neighboring towns put up with rocks and ruts in dry weather and mud in the rainy season. The Suazo …

On the day of the rightist military assault on the house of parliament last year in February, Felipe Gonzalez, general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE), was taken out of the chamber at gunpoint and brought to an …