Regions / North America / United States

Report from The Americas by Alessio Perrone.

View from America by Mark Engler.

US singer-songwriter Nahko shares his experience of psychedelics, human trafficking and turning pain into positivity, with Graeme Green.

A year ago, Trump announced he had reached a deal with manufacturer Carrier to keep jobs from moving to Mexico – with $7 million in incentives. Yet hundreds of workers were still laid off, the last of them this January. Trump’s policy should be called ‘Corporate America First’, argues Mark Engler.

Noam Chomsky is a renowned linguist, the author of an abundance of books and arguably the most famous dissident intellectual in the United States. He talks to Andy Heintz about US exceptionalism, the best way to approach North Korea and the truth about ‘free trade agreements’.

Sean Spicer, Trump’s first Press Secretary, lied from the very beginning of the new presidency. We shouldn’t let him whitewash himself with showbiz, writes Steve Parry

Inside the deeply-rooted economy of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia, and how it might undermine Colombia’s peace. Bram Ebus reports.

Dolores directed by Peter Bratt; Félicité directed and co-written by Alain Gomis.

Mark Engler asks why it only takes a bit of a bomb-dropping and sabre-rattling to rally the reporters and bestow a presidential aura on our leaders.

Taking down monuments to people who fought to defend slavery should not be controversial at all. Yet in the US today, it is, writes Mark Engler

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.