2005-2006

If you think the third world debt crisis was solved at the meetings of G8 leaders last summer, think again.

Under Bush's new Director of Foreign Assistance, Randall Tobias, U.S. foreign assistance will be more overtly political than ever. Can progressives in good conscience demand increased aid?

What will Evo Morales learn from leftist governments in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela?

While lavish agricultural subsidies illustrate wealthy countries' hypocritical stance on "free trade," ending them would be no panacea for human development.

Could administration officials be called to account? An interview with Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith, editors of In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond.

The past 12 months brought some promising developments on the globalization front.

Positive signs that a new Democratic Congress is breaking with the corporate globalization agenda.

Despite Ortega's many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the "savage capitalism" of the previous regime can genuinely benefit Nicaragua's poor.

The World Bank should get a failing grade for its rankings of countries that violate workers' rights.

The collapse of talks at the World Trade Organization is a victory for the global justice movement, but also presents new challenges.