Tag: global affairs

• Nayarit and the Making of a Narco State

  November 29, 2020

  Nayarit rarely makes the headlines in Mexico, far less in the rest of the world. But this fall, the arrest of Mexico’s former secretary of defense, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda,… more ›

• Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok

  November 29, 2020

  Mexico is set to shatter another murder record, but that grim reality is nowhere to be seen on the TikTok videos that go viral by showcasing drug cartel culture.  “It’s… more ›

• Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy

  November 22, 2020

  In an exclusive interview, the former president identifies the greatest threats to the American experiment, explains why he’s still hopeful, and opens up about his new book. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-obama-fears-for-our-democracy/617087/ more ›

• The Clash of Capitalisms

  November 22, 2020

  Capitalism rules the world. With only the most minor exceptions, the entire globe now organizes economic production the same way: labor is voluntary, capital is mostly in private hands, and… more ›

• Far right seizing COVID-19 ‘opportunity’ to expand: Study

  November 20, 2020

  Far-right individuals in Europe and the United States are increasingly forming global links and using the coronavirus pandemic to attract anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists to their cause, a study commissioned by… more ›

• The corporatization of food in South Africa

  November 15, 2020

  When our priority is growing food for profit, people will go hungry. It is simply more profitable to grow food for retail and export than it is to feed people… more ›

• State of Surveillance

  November 11, 2020

  In 2015, a national policy document issued by nine different Party and government bureaucracies called for “public safety video-surveillance construction, networking, and applications” across China. The policy described such surveillance systems as… more ›

• Democracy’s Afterlife

  November 8, 2020

  Trump has long framed the immediate post-election period as a temporal no-man’s-land. Neither in his first nor in his second campaigns for the presidency did he ever commit himself clearly… more ›

• Michael Sandel: ‘The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit’

  November 8, 2020

  Michael Sandel was 18 years old when he received his first significant lesson in the art of politics. The future philosopher was president of the student body at Palisades high… more ›

• A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes : The Complete Listing (So Far) : Atrocities : 954

  October 31, 2020

  To be read before the 2020 Presidential Election. Register to vote, or check to make sure you’re registered to vote here. To download a PDF of this entire list, click… more ›