With hundreds dead and more than 300,000 displaced since fighting broke out in mid-May, the crisis in the Philippine city of Marawi has underlined not only the brutality of the Duterte regime, but the shortsightedness of its “leftist” collaborators.
Georgia Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel’s admission that she doesn’t support a “livable wage” is only a candid statement of the mainstream GOP position.
Javier Valdez was the sixth journalist murdered in Mexico so far this year. What will it take for his killers to see justice?
How did private insurance companies come to control U.S. health care—and make our coverage the most expensive in the world?
Labour fared much better in Thursday’s election than many had predicted—myself included. But to win decisively in future, it still has work to do.
While Trump promises to axe the EPA and bring back coal, China’s leaders are heralding a new “ecological civilization.” But are the two countries really reversing roles on the environment?
Since 2015 the British Labour party has sought to distance itself from New Labour and develop its populist appeal under left-winger Jeremy Corbyn. Why hasn’t it worked?
After years of tireless organizing, the campaign to close down own of the country’s most notorious jails secured a landmark victory in March. But activists say it’s not enough.
Since last July, Indian-occupied Kashmir has been rocked by massive, ongoing protests. The question is: why now?
As the leaders of Hungary and Poland have shown, the right combination of political and financial muscle is enough to control the media.
An excerpt from the new novel Miss Burma.
In every possible sense, the opioid epidemic—the worst drug crisis in U.S. history—is a creature of our creation.
Amid disenchantment with mainstream politics, tensions between Socialists and Greens, and a string of disappointments from outgoing president François Hollande, activists known as zadistes have taken the defense of the environment into their own hands—and met formidable police repression.
From the 1920s to today, American tax policy has evolved to reflect one principle—the investor comes first—with disastrous implications for the rest of us.
Voters worldwide have been making some alarming decisions lately, but none have gone so far as to vote democracy itself out of existence. On Sunday, Turkey seems to have done just that.
