[The following is a slightly revised-and-updated version of an article appearing in the September/October issue of NACLA Report on the Americas.] …
“Counter-recruitment,” alternatively known as “truth-in-recruiting” or CR for brevity’s sake, involves providing young people and their parents with information about alternatives to…
On the one side are countries like Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, where voters have given much greater power to their populist presidents,…
Overt breaches of electoral democracy occurred in several countries in June 2009. Two cases were especially noteworthy: the June 12 presidential…
As a number of analysts have observed, and as I argued in my last blog entry, the fundamental values of the US…
Right-wing populism is sweeping the United States. During 2009 gun purchases skyrocketed, Barack Obama at one point was receiving 30 death threats…
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (New York: Viking, 2009) Murder, rape, looting, cutthroat…
For those who read Spanish, the annual continent-wide poll by Latin America’s largest polling firm was just released, and is available here.…
It goes without saying that in history the most moral solution to a problem has not always been the most politically popular.…
It’s not politically possible…The Republicans in Congress will block it… We need a bipartisan agreement…The health care industry is too powerful…There’s no…
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