Polls show that Bernie Sanders would trounce Donald Trump, but you’d never know that from watching TV news

The country’s surface-level political drama should not distract from deeper fissures

There are structural impediments to women taking their rightful place as citizens in the United States

Most needed in these dark times is to hold tight to what we believe with an unruly embrace of faith, patience, and urgency

The world the diplomats inhabit couldn’t be farther removed from the places where the impacts of continuing climate chaos are felt the most

Interview on the Arab Uprising and the rise of the Islamic State

There were clear and specific warnings that the management of land upstream of the towns now featuring in the news would lead to disaster

Madrid’s city council recently broke the rules on its debts, prioritizing money for “social sustainability” over “financial sustainability”

Feminism provided me with the tools to work toward a new kind of socialism

Since the Israeli military is the Judge, Executioner and Investigator of these incidents, there is no accountability for them

The people demanded decisive action on the economy, not full-scale austerity

Popular outrage in Afghanistan sees the Islamic State avoiding responsibility for beheadings

The ideal of a liberal and unified Europe has been on its last legs for some time, but historians may remember 2015 as the year it finally gave way

The advancement of the state and the commitment to social justice and to fight corruption will guide our actions, so that Spain and its people can move forward

Wall Street is still out of control. Seven years ago, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department bailed out the largest financial…

Spanish voters reject the two-party system that presided over austerity and mass unemployment

America has become a society in which the illegitimacy of violence is matched by the illegitimacy and lawlessness of politics

For the third time in a year, the tight-fisted, austerity policies of the European Union (EU) took a beating

There’s a bipartisan effort to justify the killing of civilians in the “war on terrorism”

When I was growing up in New York City Christmas was ‘Christmas’ regardless of whether one was Christian or not, and implied no religious dedication whatsoever