By Aileen T. Teague, HNN — On June 19 in Bogotá, Colombia, everything changed. Gustavo Petro, a senator and former rebel, narrowly defeated businessman Rodolfo Hernández to become president, marking…
Not all nations have joined in a united front against Russia’s invasion. The conflict and talk of a new Cold War could reignite the nonaligned movement. By John Ciorciari, The…
Four scholars of race, religion and immigration explain how US refugee and asylum policy has long been racially and religiously discriminatory in practice. By Laura E. Alexander, Jane Hong, Karen…
Why it’s a bad idea to revive a Cold War concept. By Peter Slezkine, Foreign Affairs — The Russian invasion of Ukraine has revived the concept of “the free world.”…
Many have forgotten the lessons of the Cuban missile crisis and the perils of nuclear war. Let’s hope Joe Biden isn’t among them. By Jeet Heer, The Nation — On…
By Tom Engelhardt — How the USS Enterprise Was Transformed into the USS Roach Like Gregor Samsa, the never-to-be-forgotten character in Franz Kafka’s story “The Metamorphosis,” we awoke on January…