For those inside the embassy, the stakes were life or death. They knew what happened to dissidents detained by the intelligence agencies. Torture was routine. Disappearance was possible. “We were on ...

Latin America is in the midst of a crucial election year in countries including Venezuela, whose ruling party claimed another win last month amid opposition boycotts. Advocates say last month’s ...

Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, a potential presidential contender, was fighting for his life in hospital after being shot ...

Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, a potential presidential contender, was fighting for his life in hospital after being shot ...

Democracies are fragile and often fail. There is always a tendency toward authoritarianism. According to Steven Levitsky and other political scientists, Americans can tell when their government has cr ...

Reacting to the Trump administration’s aggressive push to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants, a coalition of ...

Nearly 20 people have been arrested by ICE in Norristown. Immigration advocates are urging Montgomery County officials to take stronger action.

President Trump said Thursday that his travel ban against people from 12 mostly African and Middle Eastern countries aimed to ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Meet the new Trump, same as the old Trump, only now surrounded by sycophants eager to enable ...

President Trump on Wednesday signed a travel ban on 12 countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East, reviving an effort ...

In his eulogy for Julius Caesar, Shakespeare’s Mark Antony famously—and, of course, disingenuously—claims that he came “to ...