Analysis
Producing Scarcity
The US siege of Venezuela has crippled the country's financial system. What are the preconditions for its recovery?
Home Depot’s New Last Mile
Home Depot has been on a building and acquisitions spree, rapidly taking over a half-dozen logistics companies. Is it also creating an opportunity for organized labor?
War on Iran
Rupture, What Rupture?
Mark Carney’s speech at Davos has got the international community talking about rupture; but his value-based realism is a thinly veiled attempt to salvage a neoliberal international order with Canadian characteristics.
Fiscal Democracy
Lula’s overhaul of the tax system represents a challenge to the Brazilian oligarchy which goes beyond the distributive policies of previous PT governments.
Pinto’s Lesson
Reconciling cepalino and dependency theory, Aníbal Pinto developed a powerful framework for understanding the internal fractures in the working class.
War and Succession
The appointment of Sayyid Mojtaba Khamenei reflects the shifting balance of power in wartime Iran.
The Venezuela Illusion
Iran’s security structure ensures that the US will struggle to contain the dynamic of military escalation or determine its political outcomes.
Hezbollah’s Gamble
The party's decision to reengage the Israeli army is a strategic reorientation after the bruising defeat of 2024.
Crisis of Plausibility
Chile has not experienced a sudden mass conversion to the right. Rather, the country’s existing economic model, founded in the wake of the dictatorship, has been beset by what might be termed a “crisis of plausibility.”
Drones Like Bicycles
An Iranian-made Shahed-136 drone is a simple weapon. The delta wings, which span 2.5 meters, are made of fiberglass and end in two fixed vertical stabilizers.
Conscious Uncoupling
Can America's allies bypass the hegemon?
The Apotheosis of Point of Sale Data
The increasingly complex logistics of Amazon’s same-day delivery expansion—and the labor costs that make it possible.
Finance in the Dark
An opaque sector is reshaping the US. Only ambitious regulatory reform can check its power.
Battlefield Amazonia?
How the PT's environmental crackdown undermined its own ambitions for the biome.
Non-Hegemony
The neoliberal world order is collapsing. In its wake, powerful states have abandoned multilaterialism in pursuit of national aims.
After the Rent Freeze
Freezing or lowering rents is not enough. True housing affordability demands a push for public ownership.
Trump’s Dollar
Calls to weaken the dollar have become a feature of Trump's second term. But in today's credit-based system, where the US currency is often created offshore, nativist politics cannot be translated into monetary terms.
Southern Questions
The US and Israel appear to have achieved unprecedented dominance in this war-torn state. But its most restive region will not be easily subdued.
Overexpectations in e-commerce?
Is brick-and-mortar retail bound to lose ground to the new portals of infinite choice and doorstep delivery? The picture is more complex than it might seem.
Lift the Siege
Will Caracas be able to mount an economic recovery in the aftermath of the US assault?
Iran in Revolt
Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.
Matrices of Empire
Washington's campaign to weaken Chinese influence in Latin America is crucial context for its abduction of Maduro. Will its aggression backfire?
Enforcement Regime
Trump's immigration crackdown marks a dramatic change in the domestic security apparatus. Its origins lie in longstanding bipartisan consensus on immigration enforcement itself. Unconstrained budgets have enabled the growth of far-right power centers, and set the conditions for the current surge.