At the UN, Twenty Years of Backlash to ‘Women’s Rights Are Human Rights’ At the UN, Twenty Years of Backlash to ‘Women’s Rights Are Human Rights’
Socially conservative American Catholics and evangelicals who have led a decades-long campaign against the rights of women in the United States are now gearing up for a season of b...
Mar 5, 2013 / Barbara Crossette
More Than Ever, We Need the UN More Than Ever, We Need the UN
An interview with UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson.
Feb 20, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Letter From Tanzania III: Using the Afghan ‘Peace Dividend’ Letter From Tanzania III: Using the Afghan ‘Peace Dividend’
Providing services to fight poverty overseas is a much better bang for our buck than stationing soldiers there.
Feb 20, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Letter From Tanzania I: The Challenge for Obama Letter From Tanzania I: The Challenge for Obama
Will the president put his money where his mouth is and tackle poverty and disease?
Feb 18, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Democracy Imperiled in Greece Democracy Imperiled in Greece
Leftist opposition leader Alexis Tsipras is pressing a smart campaign to end austerity. But it may be too late—the oligarchs and neo-Nazis are sharpening their knives.
Jan 30, 2013 / The Editors
Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti
The tension between the personal and the political permeates new books on Haiti by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz.
Jan 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Madison Smartt Bell
Is the Global Economic Establishment Taking a Progressive Turn? Is the Global Economic Establishment Taking a Progressive Turn?
A recent conference at the influential Peterson Institute began to acknowledge inhumanities that globilization boosters have long ignored.
Jan 15, 2013 / William Greider
Congressmen: E-mails Reveal Walmart CEO Was Repeatedly Informed of Bribery Scandal in 2005 Congressmen: E-mails Reveal Walmart CEO Was Repeatedly Informed of Bribery Scandal in 2005
Representatives Waxman and Cummings say the documents appear to contradict Walmart’s story about the widening scandal.
Jan 10, 2013 / Josh Eidelson
Letter From Haiti: Life in the Ruins Letter From Haiti: Life in the Ruins
Three years after the earthquake, 350,000 are still living in refugee camps, while millions in aid money is lavished on a tourist hotel.
Jan 9, 2013 / Feature / Amy Wilentz
Labor Groups Pan Walmart Plan to Bring Oversight Approach Used in Bangladesh to the US Labor Groups Pan Walmart Plan to Bring Oversight Approach Used in Bangladesh to the US
A labor official says the kind of auditing Walmart wants to bring to its US warehouses “led directly to the deaths of 112 people in Bangladesh.”
Jan 4, 2013 / Josh Eidelson