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A new book tells the story of revolutionary feminist economist Nora Castañeda, who attempted to empower women through an innovative state bank.

Los conceptos vertidos en esta sección no reflejan necesariamente la línea editorial de NODAL. Consideramos importante que se conozcan porque contribuyen a tener una visión integral de la región. Gloria García*  América Latina y el Caribe se enfrenta a una paradoja...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair A week ago, a parade of op-ed writers, pundits, and politicians who have publicly supported, justified, or excused the war on Gaza for more than a year and a half began a series of predictable contortions in hopes of escaping what I...

Image by Alisdare Hickson. In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature’s Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal government, 45 other countries (almost all of them in the global North), and more than 50 U.S. local...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As usual, the New York Times gets things exactly wrong in a piece headlined “Trump’s Tariffs are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.” The gist of the article is that the tariffs are on a path to raise close to $400 billion...

Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. August 2nd to 3rd 2025 marked the “holiday” of Tisha B’av. Jews observe it with readings of Lamentations, a part of the extended Torah, chronicling the history of one of many catastrophic destructions of the nation of Israel. Observant Jews...

Image by Greg Bulla. While Venezuela Reunites Families, the U.S. Builds a $131 Billion Border War Machine In July 2025, the U.S. Congress passed a budget that commits $131 billion to expanding detention, deportation, and border militarization. It is the largest...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The recent wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez in Venice set off quite the furor over tax avoidance. An enormous banner in the Piazza San Marco put the matter plainly: “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more...

Photo: White House. Donald Trump’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), brings back memories of Richard Nixon’s orders to identify Jews at the Labor Department. Both efforts stem from paranoid delusions that the...

Whenever Israel yields to international pressure and allows aid trucks into Gaza, it devises other methods to ensure that food is never delivered. On the same day, July 26, Israel announced airdrops and “humanitarian corridors” for UN convoys, its forces murdered 53...

It seems so long ago, but the movement against global capitalism that featured mass protests against meetings of capital’s biggest criminals and powerbrokers (usually one and the same) had center stage a mere twenty-five years ago. For those who participated, it was...

It seems so long ago, but the movement against global capitalism that featured mass protests against meetings of capital’s biggest criminals and powerbrokers (usually one and the same) had center stage a mere twenty-five years ago. For those who participated, it was...