Where to Look for Hope in Brazil
A new generation of politicians and movements are challenging inequalities and standing up for human rights under Jair Bolsonaro's presidency.
International
Women Farmworkers Achieve Justice on the Job in Morocco
Women made key gains in reducing gender discrimination and improving wages and working conditions in Morocco's first-ever agricultural collective bargaining contract.
Why Are Widows so Often Omissions of Commissions?
Any gender-based analysis of economic development in post-conflict areas must seriously engage with an often-ignored population of women.
GM Is Closing My Plant. What Are Politicians Going to Do About It?
I gave GM 20 years of my life. In return they took my job — and the government keeps rewarding them for it.
The Key to the Brexit Backstory
How did Britain’s wealthy take the end of the British empire? Not well — and the rest of us are still paying the price.
Oil Wealth in Senegal: For the Many or the Few?
Income from recently discovered oil and gas deposits must go toward reducing poverty and precariousness.
Why Indian Workers Say the Modi Government Must Go
As the world’s largest democracy prepares for a general election this year, workers are uniting against a government captured by corporate greed.
Doctors Strike in Zimbabwe as Government Imposes Austerity to Attract More Chinese Investment
In the post-Mugabe era, the new regime aims to show it is worthy of a bigger piece of the Chinese pie.
AMLO Goes Full Throttle Against Neoliberalism — But What About NAFTA?
Mexico’s first left-wing president gave a fiery inaugural speech against neoliberalism in Mexico. But he barely mentioned NAFTA.