The economic case for universal, single-payer health care has long been irrefutable
Mark Weisbrot
Lasso appears to be involved in banking interests that facilitate capital flight from Ecuador
The progress that has been made over the last decade would not have been possible if the government of President Rafael Correa had followed the economic prescriptions of Washington
It is the long-term damage that Washington has helped visit upon the Mexican economy that has brought us to the point where a U.S. president could even propose such a monstrosity
Compensation is a first move toward civilizing US relations with Haiti, and recognizing that Haitians are human beings with the same human rights as any other people on this planet
Here is another deep irony: The media that swung the election for Trump was not Russian but American, despite the fact that most of these journalists and editors found the candidate repellent
When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was impeached in May and removed from office in August, many called it a coup. The president…
President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call earlier this month with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan sent shock waves throughout China and much of the world
To recreate an economy that would give young Italians a future without having to leave the country, the country would have to leave the euro
The whole experiment, it is said, was a failure from the beginning. Adherents say the downward spiral will continue until the chavistas are removed from power, either through elections or through a coup—most pundits don’t seem to care which. The reality is somewhat more complicated.