Browsing Category
USA
Large: Ai Weiwei takes over Alcatraz with Lego carpets and a hippie dragon
The big man of Beijing’s new show fills the former prison with a giant rainbow dragon and Lego models of 175 prisoners of conscience, from Nelson Mandela to Edward Snowden. The artist’s…
Read More...
Read More...
The real reason we are bombing Syria
Nothing better illustrates the bankruptcy of the Obama administration's foreign policy than funding groups that turn on the U.S. again and again, a neo-con fueled cycle of profits for…
Read More...
Read More...
Marco Rubio super hawk
Guess who is beating the war drums loudest of all among the flock of Republicans attacking Obama's foreign policy? None other than Senator Marco Rubio.
Read More...
Read More...
How to reveal you had an abortion
A guide for Wendy Davis and other politicians...
Read More...
Read More...
The value of domestic labor
Ai-jen Poo is a labor organizer whose compelling vision of the value of home-based care work is transforming the landscape of working conditions and labor standards for domestic or…
Read More...
Read More...
Neither party gets good marks from its base for handling illegal immigration
Republicans unhappy with GOP’s approach to several major issues
Read More...
Read More...
Hypocrisy and the right to travel to Cuba
Today, it is easier for a Cuban citizen living under a communist government to travel to the United States than for an American citizen who lives in democracy to travel freely to Cuba.…
Read More...
Read More...
U.S. baseball folly: Stealing Cubans at home
No one in sports is immune to this logic, but in no other sport is mercantilism as raw as it is in U.S. baseball...
Read More...
Read More...
Hundreds of thousands turn out for people’s climate march in New York City
The rally comes at an opportune time as 120 world leaders, including President Barack Obama, are expected to convene Tuesday at the United Nations in New York to discuss ways to tackle…
Read More...
Read More...
The hidden history of dialogue with Cuba: What Obama needs to know about talking to Havana
On October 6, the Latin America Initiative (LAI) in Foreign Policy at Brookings will host William M. LeoGrande, professor of government at American University, and Peter Kornbluh,…
Read More...
Read More...