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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.

Gibson's vulgar, anti-Semitic rant upon his arrest for drunk driving should prompt reexamination of The Passion of the Christ.

The demand for a full recount is a legitimate one.

A campaign of fear may have kept Mexico locked into the status quo.

Bush won't cheer a progressive win in Mexico's presidential election, but the rest of us should.

A book of photographs by Steve Simon.

Railing against Bolivia's oil and gas nationalization, the media's "free trade" ideologues value markets over democracy.

A review of Empire's Workshop by Greg Grandin.