Regions / North America / United States

The state of Oregon has expanded access to abortion, birth control and post-natal medical care for women, writes Amy Hall

Can a US chain of profit-making schools really help the poor? Patience Akumu reports on the impact of Bridge academies in Uganda.

View from America by Mark Engler

What is an internationalist to make of Donald J Trump’s vow to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement? Mark Engler asks.

The rules of the game changed in the United States last month on 1 May when people experienced a taste of what life was like on ‘a Day without Immigrants’, Marienna Pope-Weidemann writes.

Civil war, mental illness, poverty, gang violence: housing insecurity has many roots.

Donald Trump's right-hand man is at the centre of global power. And he's dangerous.

Progressives have to try to maximize the liberatory potential of a growing discontent, says Mark Engler.

Pedro X Molina from Nicaragua with ‘American Honeymoon’.

In the United States in the 1980s, the simple act of providing refuge became a form of civil disobedience, writes Mark Engler.

The Trump shock shows that the same old same old is no longer an option. Jonathan Matthew Smucker on building the progressive alternative.

Technocratic liberals treat movement groups as another ‘special interest’ rather than a central pillar of their ability to govern, says Mark Engler.

34-year-old former Somali refugee elected to the House of Representatives.

Ego? Tick. Money? Tick. Power-hungry? Tick. A disaster for the world? Tick.

We must respond with a genuine vision for ending the corrupt politics of privilege, writes Mark Engler.

Richard Swift considers the Trump effect on Canada's prime minister.

Mark Engler reflects on how one man's protest made waves around the US.

Black Americans are turning to economic empowerment in response to a spate of highly publicized police killings, writes Tom Lawson

John Pilger visits the Marshall Islands and its bomb survivors, still blighted by US nuclear weapons.

A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous provocation.