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Will Peace Bring Justice to Colombia?

Will victims of the war be served by the call for restorative justice?

  • Lauren Carasik

“Go home!”: Being Foreign in Post-Brexit Britain

For many EU citizens in the UK, the Brexit vote means the end of home as they know it.

  • Andrea Mammone

NATO Has Problems, But Trump Won’t Fix Them

Trump may have just been running off at the mouth, but policy experts agree he’s not entirely wrong about our dysfunctional relationship with NATO.

  • Simon Waxman

Blood in Honduras, Silence in the United States

The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

  • Lauren Carasik

The Ideology of the Olympics

The Olympics have long tried to obscure the political nature of sport.

  • Robert L. Kehoe III

Brexit Threatens World Peace and Security

The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders. 

  • Alex de Waal

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Who’s to Blame in South Sudan?

The country needs a political rebirth.

  • Mahmood Mamdani

No Money and No Plan for Refugees

The UN’s World Humanitiarian Summit came up empty-handed.

  • Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

That Lonesome Whistle

Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.

  • Candice Delmas

Writing Human Rights and Getting It Wrong

The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.

  • Alex de Waal

The Brazilian Coup’s Image Problem

New leaks prove the impeachment is intended to protect corrupt politicians.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

In Syria, Keeping the Faith

Democratic forces persist amid brutal regime violence and sectarian conflict.

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Should the Middle Class Fear the World’s Poor?

Plutocracy, not global competition, harms the middle class.

  • Marshall Steinbaum

A Country for Old Men

Xenophobia, antipolitics, and the crisis of liberalism in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.

  • Holly Case

Winners and Losers in Brazil’s Presidential Impeachment

Is there a political coup underway?

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Out with the Old, in with the Old

Lessons from Iceland’s brush with the Panama Papers.

  • Janet Elise Johnson

Still Tilting at Windmills

On the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’s death, Spain struggles to honor its literary heritage

  • Stephen Phelan

Chasing Lula

Bias and due process violations in Brazil’s massive corruption investigation.

  • Leonardo Avritzer

Matters of Choice

Scholar and retired Army officer Andrew Bacevich on the U.S. war for the Greater Middle East

  • Andrew J. Bacevich
  • Stephen Kinzer

Syria after the Ceasefire

Negotiations may ease the humanitarian crisis—while strengthening Assad.

  • Stephen Zunes

Why Spain Won’t Quit the Eurozone

Weaker European economies chafe against an anti-democratic euro.

  • Mark Weisbrot

How Refugees Can Save Europe

Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.

  • Paul Linden-Retek

Turkey Descends into Authoritarianism

Fears of terrorism, and President Erdoğan’s rivalry with an exiled theologian, have become excuses for censorship and repression.

  • Umar Farooq

Cuba After the Thaw

Worsening Inequality for Afro-Cubans and Women

  • Michelle Chase
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