‘Untethered, uncontrolled, uncontained’ Peter Kornbluh on Trump’s Latin America policy | UpFront

Following United States forces’ abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a new set of questions is emerging as to how far Donald Trump is prepared to go in pushing US power abroad through direct intervention. But is this a real break with past policy - or the latest iteration of the US's …

‘Reality has overtaken satire’: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Trump’s second term | UpFront

One year into his second term, United States President Donald Trump is testing the outer limits of executive power. From the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to threats towards Iran and efforts to secure control of Greenland, the administration has plunged the US into turbulent terr…

MeToo Founder on Epstein and sexual violence: “survivors are easy to sacrifice” | UpFront

In 2017, a reckoning over sexual violence called “#MeToo” swept the globe. Eight years later, has the movement done enough for survivors? And what will it take for some of the world’s most powerful men accused of sexual misconduct to face consequences? This week on UpFront Marc Lamont Hill speaks …

Trump’s Venezuela Regime Change Campaign: ‘A Naked exercise of American imperialism | UpFront

Is the United States orchestrating regime change in Venezuela? Could this spark an all-out war? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks to Alan McPherson, an author and history professor at Temple University who specialises in US-Latin American relations. The US is continuing the largest mi…

Mahmood Mamdani on exile, belonging, and watching Zohran make US political history | UpFront

How do the legacies of empire continue to shape politics today? In his new book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, Mahmood Mamdani examines how colonial rule shaped Uganda’s political institutions and the leaders who emerged from them. Mamdani also reflec…

Inside the Biden administration’s cover-up of the assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh | UpFront

Did the Biden administration help cover up the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks to Steve Gabavics, a colonel-turned-whistleblower who was sent by the United States Department of State to investigate Abu Akleh's kill…

Zohran Mamdani: Democrats’ future? Briahna Joy Gray on the party's identity crisis | UpFront

As inequality deepens and dissent is punished, many are looking to new voices like Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist running for New York City mayor on a platform of rent freezes, free public transit, and taxing the rich. Can candidates like him revive the Democratic Party in the United Stat…

'Haiti is still under occupation': Scholar Jemima Pierre blasts US and UN | UpFront

As foreign troops, private contractors and international powers tighten their grip on Haiti, the country is facing one of the worst crises in its modern history. But who is really to blame? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks with scholar and activist Jemima Pierre, who argues that the c…

Chris Smalls: Linking workers rights and Palestinian liberation

Does grassroots organising have the power to hold governments and corporations accountable for genocide? And where does the US labour movement stand today? This week on Upfront Marc Lamont Hill speaks to labour organiser and activist Chris Smalls, who cofounded Amazon’s first US labour union. Sma…

The Hague Group: countries form new coaltion to hold Israel accountable for Gaza genocide | UpFront

The Hague Group is a new alliance of nations, primarily from the Global South, taking coordinated legal action to uphold international law and hold Israel accountable for its actions in Palestine. But will this effort bring real accountability? And as the US faces growing criticism for its role in…