Inequalities in the US continue to widen, because of government policies that favour the rich.
Letter from America
The process of reforming the constitution to better reflect the interests of all groups and people, through an elected constituent assembly, has followed different trajectories in Bolivia and...
The US House of Congress voted to end the Iraq war, a vote that was vetoed by president George Bush. However, the interest of the Democratic Party, which has a slim majority in Congress, is not to...
Cho Seung-Hui's cold-blooded shooting down of several of his fellow students and professors speaks to certain issues that have come to constitute in certain respects the quality of American life...
As the US seeks to establish its fighting capability in space, it continues to increase its military bases around the world. And given its desire to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions, keep an eye on...
The proposal by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to unite all the parties supporting him into a single united front has started a debate in the country about the relevance of political parties and...
The renaissance of documentary filmmaking in the US is a hopeful sign that politics may yet have something of a future in a country dominated by dreary and mind-numbing discussions of the presence or...
President George Bush's decision to increase US troop strength in Iraq has found few supporters and will only make things worse.
Asia poses a number of major challenges to US foreign policy, but neither the White House nor the Congress is capable of addressing these challenges.
Latin America has seen divergences in electoral strategies between neoliberal conservative candidates employing market-based approaches and left-leaning candidates who seek to put real social issues...
Two different studies on mortality in Iraq after the 2003 US invasion - by Iraq Body Count and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health - provide vastly different assessments.
What history will emerge from the Bush wars is still uncertain. But it grows clearer with each passing day that the Bush administration must now grapple with the reality of defeat.
There is growing opposition, more ironically, from Republican law-makers, to the George Bush administration's contravention of the Geneva conventions in its "war on terror"
The revolutionary euphoria of the 1960s may have waned in Cuba, yet many Cubans continue to believe that the revolution and what it achieved was important and that the values and institutions it...
American public discourse simply cannot accept to what extent drug use, illicit and legal, is now embedded in everyday sociality.
