Politics

From the January invasion of Venezuela to a $20 billion bailout for Argentina's Milei, the authors trace how Washington's money, military and media reach are driving a rightward turn across Latin America.

The dollar still anchors nine in ten currency trades, but the US share of world output has fallen from a quarter after World War II to under 15 percent today.

As more details emerge about this controversial deal, big questions remain about what it could mean – both for oil markets and Venezuela’s national sovereignty.

Or "Bombing the Shit" Out of Them (Whoever They Might Be)

Robert S. Becker on the deeper, still-unfolding costs of Trumpism beyond its constitutional violations.

A blocked March subpoena over a rare earth company's Pentagon loan set the stage for a new letter demanding records by September 9.

Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Customers soon learned the hard way that this wasn’t true.

Some Democrats have retreated from their party’s once-broad support for transgender rights. Not Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey. “The demonization of the trans community requires political leaders to stand up and to protect them against the unconscionable attacks,” Markey told The 19th ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary, where he faces a challenge from U.S.

With a thousand DOJ monitors ordered to polling places this November and troops not ruled out, a People's Action coalition of 500 groups is organizing a Labor Day mobilization to defend the vote.

Australia is being called a ‘loser country’ over the News Bargaining Incentive.