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Latin American history. Half a century later. Chile is still haunted by the coup in 1973, and is at odds over how to mark it. Gabriel Boric, th... (2023)
It has become increasingly clear that the political Right in America is not what it used to be. In particular, my own preferred slant of classical ... (2022)
MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan is experiencing the worst street protests the country has seen since gaining independence three decades ago. The outburst... (2022)
The unpopular bill was going to be Iván Duque’s legacy | The Americas (2021)
The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say. It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the... (2020)
President Nicolás Maduro’s “great economic revolution” begins today when five zeros are (2018)
President Nicolás Maduro’s “great economic revolution” begins today when five zeros are (2018)
The sovereign-debt crisis triggered an economic collapse that lasted longer than America’s Great (2018)
VIC, A PROSPEROUS town of 43,000 people about 90 minutes north of Barcelona, is sometimes called “the capital of Catalan Catalonia”. Almost every b... (2018)
The 40-year itch "MANY OF THE photos seem older than they are. In black and white, they show Spaniards wrapped in overcoats, the men with sidebu... (2018)
Taking the pain out of Spain "JUST six years ago Spain seemed to be the European Union’s biggest economic calamity, menacing the survival of the... (2018)
In an interview with CNN en Español and the Miami Herald, Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said expanding mediation could help end violence and de... (2018)
DURING the worst days of the euro-zone debt crisis, the fear was that bond-market turmoil in places such as Greece and Spain would spread to Italy.... (2018)
This week “The Economist explains” is given over to economics. For each of six days until Saturday, this blog will publish a short explainer on a s... (2018)
LAST week armed men attacked a community in Enugu, a state in Nigeria’s south-east. Local press reported that they kidnapped two villagers and that... (2018)
Theresa May, the British prime minister, has triggered Article 50, the legal method by which a country leaves the European Union. The bill giving h... (2018)
AFTER the surprise decision of Britain to leave the European Union, and the election of Donald Trump as American president, there is a lot more tal... (2018)
ON TUESDAY Emmanuel Macron, the French president, hosted talks at which the two most influential players in Libya—Fayez al-Sarraj, the UN-backed pr... (2018)
IN MAY O Globo, a Brazilian newspaper, reported that Michel Temer, Brazil’s president, had been caught on tape at his official residence discussing... (2018)
FROM Spain to Ukraine, and from Scotland to northern Italy, regional issues threaten the make-up of European states. Similar expectations persist r... (2018)
CROSSING the border between Northern Ireland and his home in the south always left the young Gabriel D’Arcy sweating. But that is because he was in... (2017)
Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union. By Harold Clarke, Matthew Goodwin and Paul Whiteley.Cambridge University Press; 256 pages; ... (2017)
President Temer may be ousted just like his predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, prompting fears the country’s political institutions may struggle to regai... (2017)
The Operation Car Wash investigation has been going on for more than three years, snaring billionaire corporate chieftains for paying bribes to win... (2017)
This CFR Backgrounder looks at Venezuela's humanitarian crisis. President Nicolas Maduro’s efforts to consolidate power amid a deepening econom... (2017)
Foreign Affairs, 2017: "Putting this situation back in the hands of Catalan voters is the only feasible solution that could begin to address the r... (2017)
World On Fire: Right-wing populism is surging worldwide, in places as diverse as India, the Netherlands, Argentina, France and the United States. W... (2024)
For Mónica Guzmán, curiosity isn’t a muse that flits by when we wonder about something. It’s the most powerful tool we have to navigate our world, ... (2022)
LastWeekTonight Published on Apr 3, 2016 Lawmakers have to raise money to keep their jobs, but a surprising amount of their job now consists of r... (2019)
The UK could officially leave the European Union next month, which would be a huge change with hugely damaging consequences. Connect with Last Week... (2019)
After WWI, Europe's leaders established greater economic ties to help prevent future continental conflict. Now, more than half a century later, the... (2018)
Greece is in a state of economic and financial crisis that's dominated global headlines this week. Vox's Matt Yglesias explains the real roots of t... (2018)
Vox Published on Jan 20, 2016 The conflict is really only 100 years old. (2018)
TED Published on Feb 21, 2017 How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yu... (2017)
"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young wom... (2023)
"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)
"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)