In her book, Zaretsky focuses on the role of memory and truth in rebuilding communities—specifically, communities within the Jewish diaspora—that have ...
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A Global Americans review of Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina
India Kirssin | 
Mapuche organizations call on international agencies to intervene on behalf of Chile’s Indigenous population
Carole Concha Bell | 
Mapuche organizations are calling on international agencies to intervene, as Chile’s National Congress pushes forward a bill that would deploy troops to ...
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Has anything changed since French Guiana’s 2017 social upheaval?
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Four years since social unrest gripped French Guiana, the territory has seen marginal improvements; nevertheless, many of the structural problems of the ...
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Chinese-style democracy
Juan Pablo Cardenal | 
The public spat between the United States and China at the recent bilateral summit held in Alaska clearly showed that future relations between the two ...
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The debate over immigration is saying all the wrong things
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Immigrants are not coming to the U.S. because they are attracted by President Joe Biden’s inclusive language, and they were not repelled by former ...
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Reimagining slums in Latin America: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Inés de Marcos | 
The COVID-19 pandemic has put informal settlements, and the policy failures that they represent, back in the spotlight. Immediate strategies to combat the ...
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A case for caution on human rights
Robert Carlson | 
Advocates should embrace a two-pronged approach, pushing the envelope at the domestic level while reinforcing well-established rights through ...
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Applying the “D-Day” strategy to solve a substandard drug crisis
Ezequiel Carman | 
Through a joint effort, countries can increase the safe and efficient dissemination of medicine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, but it will require a new ...
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A Global Americans review of The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
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DePalma focuses on a narrow slice of Havana and a number of its families. In doing so, he has created an excellent read about the lives of “ordinary” ...
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