The new Florida concentration camp, likely the first of dozens that will be funded by Trump and congressional Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Bill, is already notorious for overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and human rights abuses. Its name was coined by a Florida official who heard Trump muse about returning Alcatraz to the federal prison system, and about digging an alligator filled moat on the border between Mexico and the U.S.  (Alligators could never survive the aridity and heat of the border.)  The president eagerly embraced the insulting appellation and made it the Florida camp’s official name. More

As Trinidad and Tobago prepared for national elections in April 2025, politicians, economists, and analysts eyed the fate of a dragon that slept just off the country’s shores, in Venezuelan waters. The future of the massive gas field, known as “Dragon Gas,” had recently been dealt a heavy blow. As collaboration between Trinidad’s National Gas More

The deafening racket we’re getting here in Spain from US politics or, more like it, from Donald Trump’s chaotic and volatile presidency, tends to drown out other signals we’re getting. In this situation of the Trump administration’s blind developmentalism and explicit refusal to accept any limits or to engage in mature consideration of the policies More