Taking Note

In our final print issue, “Mapping the Moment,” we chart the social and economic conditions shaping both U.S. hegemony and resistance today.

Over the past three years, the use of horizontalism to describe new social relationships under construction has proliferated.

Over the past three years, the use of horizontalism to describe new social relationships under construction has proliferated.

A search on Flickr images for Uruguayan President José Mujica renders the headshots of a pop cultural icon: Aylín Mújica, Cuban

  Legs severed at the shinbone, arms cut off above the elbow, baseball cap (worn backwards a la mexicana) flying off

  Saul Landau died at the age of 77. He was the Renaissance man of Latin American studies: a filmmaker,

  To all who knew him, the news of Benjamin Kohl’s passing came as a shock. The man who filled

  On May 10, 2013, before a packed courtroom, a Guatemalan court declared that it had found former de-facto president

  On May 10, 2013, before a packed courtroom, a Guatemalan court declared that it had found former de-facto president

  The news poured down like a hard Venezuelan rain—Hugo Chávez had passed. After a two-year-long battle with cancer, we

Schadenfreude might have been the most overused word in the weeks that followed President Obama’s reelection; understandably so since anyone

On August 15, the Obama administration launched the new federal program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It allows young immigrants