New research suggests that as America has become more segregated by class, the power of place has exacerbated the participatory bias in American politics. By Lee Drutman May 21, 2009 In the 2008 election, lower-income Americans voted at significantly lower rates than higher-income Americans. This was not, in itself, news. Just as in 2004, more than 60 percent [...]

An Open Letter to President Obama From the Free Gaza Movement By Free Gaza Movement June 3, 2009 Tomorrow you travel to Egypt to give one of the most important speeches of your presidency. With the words you deliver you have said that you want to “reset” U.S. relations with the Muslim world and create a fundamental change [...]

By Frank Greve May 19, 2009 WASHINGTON — When Jody Richards saw a homeless man begging outside a downtown McDonald’s recently, he bought the man a cheeseburger. There’s nothing unusual about that, except that Richards is homeless, too, and the 99-cent cheeseburger was an outsized chunk of the $9.50 he’d earned that day from panhandling. The generosity of [...]

Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat files a report on the state of the Gazan economy, where unemployment and poverty rates are among the highest in the world. Despite international pledges of over $5.2 billion to rebuild Gaza, in the four months since Israel’s assault the siege has not been lifted and only one truck carrying [...]

Entre las injerencias de Estados Unidos, el rechazo de los vecinos y la militarización, la isla caribeña afronta el gran reto de recuperar su identidad y solucionar sus problemáticas más angustiantes.

PROGRESAR Y MORIR EN EL INTENTO Yayo Herrero 27 de abril de 2009 La mayor parte de la sociedad podría estar de acuerdo con la idea de que en los últimos dos siglos, y sobre todo en las últimas décadas, el conocimiento científico ha avanzado de una forma impresionante. En todas las áreas del pensamiento: física, matemáticas, química, [...]

María Teresa Blandón Gadea 6 de mayo de 2009 Muchos de los problemas que afectan a la mayoría de la población nicaragüense son consecuencia directa de políticas macroeconómicas impuestas por gobiernos del Norte y aplicadas entusiastamente por una clase política doméstica con un anémico interés por reducir la pobreza y las brechas de iniquidad. Baste recordar que, [...]

By Rasna Warah May 12, 2009 Development, as in Third World Development, is a debauched word, a whore of a word. Its users can’t look you in the eye. - Leonard Frank, “The Development Game”[1] The death of development Recently, development assistance and aid to Africa has come under attack from the most unlikely quarters – the Africans themselves. The [...]