Tanks, but No Tanks
“If they don’t pay,” President Donald Trump warned of NATO allies, “I’m not going to defend them.” Currently, his official position is that the United States would reconsider its defense commitments i...
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Shrub-par Returns
Tropical forests are one of our most crucial defenses against climate change, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. A record 6.7 million hectares of rainforest were lost in 2024, largely due...
Patron Saints of the Beast: Women in Southern Mexico Meet Migrant Trains With Food, Not Fear
A statement by President Donald Trump on November 1, 2018: “Mass, uncontrolled immigration is especially unfair to the many wonderful, law-abiding immigrants already living here who followed the rules...
Brazil and the United States: How Far-Right Social Media Rhetoric Incites Democratic Backsliding
On January 8, thousands of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters rioted in Brasília to protest what they falsely claimed was a stolen election. They broke into and vandalized three ma...
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The Peso Problem: Argentina’s Economic Crisis
A street artist is painting on a canvas of pesos. Families are taking handfuls of money to the grocery store, just to encounter confusion about the price of groceries. In Argentina, runaway inflation...
The Chilean Democracy: Unwritten and Thriving
A hopeful analysis of the fate of the Chilean Constitution and the future of Chilean democracy
Castillo’s Turmoil: How Institutions Hamper Peru’s New Leader
Staff writer Gabriela Paz-Soldan argues that Pedro Castillo’s unstable administration in Peru is constrained by flawed institutions, rebutting his opposition’s calls for his removal as an answer to th...
Every Rose Has its Thorn: Exposing Colombia’s Cut Flower Industry
ost Americans might not know it, but the vast majority of the cut flowers sold throughout the country are grown and exported out of Colombia. While the cut flower industry has aided Colombia in expand...
Business for the Short-Term: The Chinese Anti-Protest Armament of the Venezuelan National Guard
eports of civil unrest in Venezuela reveal a strange scene. From militarized police vehicles, giant cannons shoot water straight into protesters, and tear gas grenades are blasted directly into crowds...
This Land is Their Land: The Amazon’s Cloudy Future Under Tropical Trump
t the end of October, Brazil became the latest country to move to the far-right, electing the ultra-conservative Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics” and notorious for h...
Lay Down Your Arms: Why the FARC should be Included in the Colombian Democratic Process
olombia is facing one of its most turbulent election cycles in recent years. This is the first vote in which the Fuerza Armada Revolucionaria de Colombia—Ejército del Pueblo (FARC), the former armed g...
Cadastre Disaster
How land registries are used to steal indigenous territory