Geography Archives: Americas

We must push back against ideological containment that blocks the development of rebellious thinking and movements of resistance.

A new Minnesota law banning the use of technology that creates sexually explicit images or videos of a person without their consent will go into effect Saturday after a federal judge rejected the request of an Elon Musk AI company to delay the law’s enforcement.

It’s said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland.

Congressional Republicans want to sabotage the capital city’s incoming progressive government, and the owners of the DoorDash food delivery app, upset over having to pay their fair share of taxes in D.C., are helping them do it.

In 49 states, the number of people enrolled in Obamacare plans has declined since Congress made coverage more expensive by allowing federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year.

How Silicon Valley tech firms remade U.S. defense contracting. And then opened the Pentagon’s checkbook—wide.

Under Washington’s “America First Global Health Strategy,” seven American aid workers entered a U.S. isolation facility in central Kenya in mid-July, defying weeks of local protests and Kenyan High Court orders to halt the work.

The McCarthy Era and the controversies of the 1960s and 1970s might not seem terribly relevant to a new generation of activists. But the old questions remain, and the left still needs to confront them.

On July 28, Venezuelans commemorate the birth of the Bolivarian Revolution’s historical leader.

The survey also found that 54% of Americans view the Israeli leader unfavorably and that 47% believe he’s guilty of war crimes and has damaged U.S.-Israel relations.

Using deliberate distortion of a speech by co-president Daniel Ortega, the U.S. has kicked off a campaign to meddle in Nicaragua’s elections by erroneously announcing that Nicaragua will no longer hold elections. In a novel turn, the U.S. has kicked off a campaign to meddle in Nicaragua’s elections by erroneously announcing that Nicaragua will no longer […]

In July, free software from China set off the worst week for U.S. chip stocks in over a year and briefly cost Nvidia its place as the world’s most valuable company. Wall Street panicked because Chinese firms had matched the leading U.S. artificial intelligence systems. But the selloff exposed something deeper. The AI boom rests […]

A capstone on a portrait of policy failure.

Democratic Socialists of America candidates won several Democratic primaries for Congress and the state legislature in New York.

On Thursday, President Trump said, in a new twist, that the U.S.-Saudi nuclear agreement would be “totally subject to” the kingdom joining the Abraham Accords.

The death toll in Israeli attacks in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire deal was signed in October 2025, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the agreement.

Social media is not conducive to nuance.

“When the earthquake came,” Raimelis recalled, “we already knew how to work together.”

The government isolates each killing and blames each victim. The movement joins the names together, exposes the lies and builds the power to stop the killings.