Understanding the Right-Wing Political Ecosystem
The Left’s strategy for fighting the Right isn’t constant — it depends on which segment of the right-wing coalition is dominant at any given time.
4 Articles by: Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson is a PhD candidate in Latin American History at the University of California–Berkeley. He studies right-wing politics and conservative Catholic theology in Latin America and Spain. He's also the host of "Fifteen Minutes of Fascism," a podcast covering the global rise of the radical right.
What Should Bolivia Do Now With Its Coup Plotters?
The victory of Evo Morales’s Movimiento al Socialismo party in Bolivia is a triumph for democracy and a rebuke to the right-wing coup plotters. But Bolivia now faces some serious questions: How will the country engage with these recent atrocities perpetrated by the Right? And what will happen to those who committed them?
Another Debt Crisis Is Looming for Argentina
Since the turn of the millennium, Argentina has been hobbling from debt crisis to debt crisis. Now, in the midst of a pandemic, the country is set to default for the third time in twenty years — an event that would plunge the country into chaos.
Argentina’s COVID–19 Lessons
The United States’ COVID-19 response has paled in many respects to Argentina’s. But it’s not just Argentina’s public health response that the United States should learn from — it’s also the country’s history of popular resistance that will be crucial to fighting unequal and undemocratic responses to the pandemic.