Climate Crimes
How Plastic Pollution Is Making Central American Communities Uninhabitable
Companies are selling more cheap, disposable plastic products to developing countries like Guatemala. That trash is ruining rivers and the sea.
World
A "Black Vests" Movement Emerges in France to Protest Treatment of Undocumented Migrants
The gilets noirs took their name from the gilets jaunes, or yellow vests movement. They won't let migrants be blamed for global inequality.
How Jho Low, Wanted for History’s Biggest Heist, Parked His Money at an Obscure, Kuwaiti-Owned Bank
Before he was a fugitive, Jho Low's close relationship to a Kuwaiti royal helped grease his way into a bank on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean.
Voices
Everyone Is Denouncing the Syrian Rebels Now Slaughtering Kurds. But Didn't the U.S. Once Support Some of Them?
It’s a lazy, cynical rewriting of history to pretend these groups have nothing to do with the U.S., or were never backed by the U.S., in their current form.
A Prize for Lies
How the Nobel Prize Succumbed to the Literary Art of Genocide Denial
Peter Handke, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, niftily stops just short of outright denials of the Serb genocide of Bosnia’s Muslims.
Trump Pressed Ukraine's President to Act Out a Fake News Script, Live on CNN
Donald Trump extorted a promise from his Ukrainian counterpart to appear on American television and act out a script prepared for him by Trump’s aides.
The War on Immigrants
Seeking to Deport Haitians, the Trump Administration Is Counting Deaths in Displacement Camps as “Progress”
The government’s case for ending Haitians’ Temporary Protected Status relies on statistics that erase evidence of persistent suffering and even death.
All the President’s Crimes
Is a Ukrainian Oligarch Helping Trump Smear Biden to Evade U.S. Corruption Charges?
Why did Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash, who is facing U.S. extradition on corruption charges, get involved in Trump’s effort to smear Joe Biden?
Nobody Has a Plan for Thousands of ISIS Fighters Detained by Kurds in Syria
The abrupt U.S. withdrawal from Syria means nobody knows who will eventually control the 10,000 ISIS fighters there or where they will wind up.
What I Learned From the Debate: Democrats Still Can’t Level With Voters About the American Empire
No one on stage Tuesday night in Ohio was willing to tell Americans the awful truth.