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A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

A contribution to a Dissent magazine symposium on the 2010 midterm elections.

What are the lessons from the Salvadoran civil war for Iraq?

A review of The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border.

A discussion paper for Foreign Policy in Focus.

Where activists stand five years after their landmark protests reshaped the globalization debate.

In the wake of the natural disaster, the real need is to go beyond a freeze on payments and to promote debt cancellation for impoverished countries.

With a White House that uses El Salvador as a model for Iraq, we still have much to learn from the assassination of Archbishop Romero twenty-five years ago.

The departed Pope's vision of an alternative globalization should challenge narrow debate about "moral values."

How 100% debt cancellation for poor countries—now being debated by wealthy nations—was transformed from an implausible demand into a winning issue, and what barriers lie ahead for the debt relief movement.