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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

Blockading Oil

…Cuba’s largest supplier, shortly after it gained control over Venezuela’s oil production last month. On January 29, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that threatened to impose tariffs on any country…