Toward Freedom

George Orwell's journals assess events from the perspective of the past looking forward, rather than from the perspective of our present looking back. They thus refreshingly remind us of the uncertainty of the time, the contingency of history, and the moral and political complexity so often lost to the editors of historical volumes.

Haitian women workers tell of their experiences in sweatshops and offer their analysis on better types of jobs for Haiti.

It is becoming more likely that Americans will one day cast their votes in national elections with just the click of a mouse. What the American public doesn’t know is that sitting at the controls of Internet voting technology is a group of private corporations whose board members and CEOs once worked for the US intelligence community.

In light of Evo Morales' May Day expulsion of USAID from Bolivia, here is a look back to the Harry Truman administration's work to undermine Bolivia's transformative National Revolution in 1952. This history's legacy lives on; Washington’s power is woven into the fabric of Bolivian politics, from the dreams and nightmares of the National Revolution, into the MAS era of today.

In May 1968, there were demonstrations in Paris, first among students, but as the month wore on, workers went on strike; gas was no longer delivered to gas stations, few people could drive and the whole country came to a standstill.