Year One of AMLO’s Mexico
As we did a year ago during his campaign, Carlos Bravo Regidor and I tried to cut through the highly polarized conversation around Andrés Manuel López Obrador to get to […]
Tag Archives: essays
US foreign policy and Venezuela
This is not an easy subject. Anti-imperialism may be a limited framework in this situation, and the Maduro government needs to be subject to pressure to leave. But I think, […]
After the Pink Tide
The special section in the Winter 2019 edition of Dissent magazine is derived substantially from the work we did at the conference held last October on the Future of the Left in […]
El populismo de minorías de Donald Trump
As part of efforts to contribute to intellectual and political internationalism, I am trying to write about U.S. politics for Nueva Sociedad on a regular basis. At the link, in Spanish, is […]
Five Principles to Guide a Foreign Policy for the Left
The Fellow Travelers blog is hosting a forum in which different thinkers are asked to provide five guiding principles for a potential left foreign policy. The current participants are Rep. […]
Explaining Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
For Nueva Sociedad, I wrote about the victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Since it was for an international audience, I tried to place her in the context of broader social movements […]
AMLO’s Sweeping Victory
In the wake of AMLO’s sweeping victory in Mexico’s elections, Carlos Bravo Regidor and I have returned to Dissent to analyze the results. It was a strikingly thorough victory, he […]
