In the world’s largest democracies, far-right movements that embrace violence, reject democracy, and target the vulnerable are on the rise
Interview on the Biden administration signing on to an effort at the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive intellectual property rules on vaccine technology
How John Locke’s theory of property — and its racist exclusion of Black and Indigenous people — explains U.S. history from 1776 to January 6
“This is not something that’s unusual that has happened in the Capitol. Right-wing groups, when they begin to lose electorally, … they resort to the streets and to violence in order to stop that process”
The violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists underlines the face of crises to come
Hewing to its centrist instincts will be a disaster for the Biden administration. The left must seize the initiative
Biden may tone down Trump’s trade war and bring back some limited human rights advocacy, but there may be more continuity than either administration admits
I hate to spell this out, but the current mood in the US approximates that of civil war, and it may just be a matter of time before one side, the Trump forces, translates that mood into something more threatening, more ugly
The IMF and the Bank would like the global South to believe that they are indispensable. They are not
Four Ways the Philippine Strongman Could Fall
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