4+ hour, 9+ min ago  (222+ words) Yet, despite this advance, Colombians elected right-wing lawyer and businessman Abelardo De La Espriella, whose nationalist and law-and-order platform marks a sharp contrast with the policies of outgoing President Gustavo Petro. The outcome suggests that even significant social and economic…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1221+ words) The women's movement sprang into the world from 1960s and 1970s leftism, a leftism that was, not to put too fine a point on it, blatantly male supremacist. Men on the left back then generally regarded women's liberation as bourgeois feminism " they…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (711+ words) Image by Lindsey La Mont. In 1994, at the age of 5, I became one of an estimated 63, 000 children subjected to sexual abuse every year, what amounts to one in 9 girls and one in 20 boys. My abusers were Catholic priests in a…...

7+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (617+ words) Trump and his MAGA followers are hardly going to forsake their standard mix of bigotry, anti-immigrant mania and other political toxins. Demagoguery fuels the Republican engine " and in the 11 months until the midterm elections, skullduggery to'thwart democracy'will accelerate rather than…...

8+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1101+ words) Image by Floris Van Cauwelaert. The most insidious privatization of the 21st century isn't material'it's moral. The right to define "goodness, once born of collective struggle, has been seized by elites who trade in humanitarian spectacle. Melinda Gates, Mar'a Corina Machado…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (940+ words) Benjamin'Rothove'is a Young Voices contributor studying economics and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is editor-in-chief of the Madison Federalist. He has been published in the Washington Examiner, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal. Follow him…...

11+ mon, 3+ day ago  (903+ words) Jos" Miguel Palacios is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the Department of Cinematic Arts at California State University, Long Beach. The author of Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973. The word solidarity is much alive these…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1071+ words) Recognizing Feminist Strides in Latin America Patriarchy is alive and well throughout the world. But the English-language media flatters itself by one-sidedly portraying machismo as a particularly Latin American malady, all the while overlooking significant feminist gains made in the…...