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Brazil’s president wants economic and political bloc to benefit region. Leaders from South America’s 12 nations are meeting in Brazil. Their host president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is calling for more unity and even a new single currency.

What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom.

The U.S. troops arrive amid an upsurge of Peru’s underclass. Peru’s mostly rural, poor, and indigenous majority elected the recently deposed Castillo as president in 2021, they are now calling for Boluarte's, (his unpopular replacement) removal.

We have global capital organized on energy supplies, organized on food production and distribution, organized on services, and organized on how we communicate. So why aren’t we organized internationally? Why aren’t we equally globally organized?

Kissinger is having an extended birthday month. It has also been a month of outstanding watchdog reporting — including new revelations about previously untold mass killings Kissinger was responsible for in Cambodia.

The case for strict staffing ratios in American hospitals and skilled nursing facilities is remarkably straightforward: They save lives and reduce nurse turnover.

The Inflation Reduction Act took minor steps against Big Pharma price-gouging. Merck is outraged.

Why Tim Wu thinks regulators might block a PGA Tour-LIV Golf “partnership.”

A Supreme Court ruling in an Alabama gerrymandering case upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, but challenges remain for communities of color.

Tech mogul Neville Singham’s vast dark money network has fueled BreakThrough News and a raft of other online outlets pushing Moscow and Beijing’s favorite narratives.