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Kevin A. Young Associate Professor of History

University of Massachusetts Amherst

kayoung@umass.edu

https://kevinyoung.org

EDUCATION

2013 Ph.D., History, State University of New York at Stony Brook

2010 M.A., History, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Examination fields: Modern Latin America, Colonial Latin America,

Comparative Labor History and Social Movements (passed with

distinction)

2007 B.A., History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University (high

honors)

RECENT EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATIONS

2020-present Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2015-2020 Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2016-2017 Fellow, Crossroads in the Study of the Americas program, Five

Colleges, Amherst, MA

2014-2015 Research Affiliate, Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, San Salvador

2011-2014 Academic Affiliate, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center,

University of Michigan

2014 Long-term substitute teacher, U.S. History and Economics, Pioneer

High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

2008-2011 Adjunct instructor and graduate teaching assistant, Stony Brook

University

BOOKS

Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It (New York: Verso,

2020) (with Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz)

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Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left (New York: Cambridge

University Press, 2019) (editor)

Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia (Austin:

University of Texas Press, 2017)

• Spanish translation forthcoming from the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales in La Paz

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES (sole author unless otherwise noted)

Young, Kevin A., Tarun D. Banerjee, and Michael Schwartz. “Capital Strikes As a

Corporate Political Strategy: The Structural Power of Business in the Obama Era.”

Politics & Society 46, no. 1 (2018): 3-28.

“Alianzas revolucionarias del siglo XX en Bolivia: Entre la coalición y la ruptura.”

Fuentes (La Paz, Bolivia) 11, no. 49 (2017): 6-18.

“From Open Door to Nationalization: Oil and Development Visions in Bolivia, 1952-

1969.” Hispanic American Historical Review 97, no. 1 (2017): 95-129.

• Abridged Spanish translation published as “De ‘Puertas Abiertas’ a la nacionalización: Los

hidrocarburos y el choque de visiones económicas en Bolivia, 1952-1969.” Historia (La Paz,

Bolivia) 40 (2017): 59-90.

“The Making of an Interethnic Coalition: Urban and Rural Anarchists in La Paz, Bolivia,

1946-1947.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 11, no. 2 (2016): 163-88.

Young, Kevin, and Michael Schwartz. “A Neglected Mechanism of Social Movement

Political Influence: The Role of Anticorporate and Anti-Institutional Protest in Changing

Government Policy.” Mobilization 19, no. 3 (2014): 239-60.

Young, Kevin, and Diana C. Sierra Becerra. “How ‘Partnership’ Weakens Solidarity:

Colombian GM Workers and the Limits of UAW Internationalism.” WorkingUSA 17, no.

2 (2014): 239-60.

Young, Kevin, and Michael Schwartz. “Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: How Corporate

Power Shaped the Affordable Care Act.” New Labor Forum 23, no. 2 (2014): 30-40.

“Purging the Forces of Darkness: The United States, Monetary Stabilization, and the

Containment of the Bolivian Revolution.” Diplomatic History 37, no. 3 (2013): 509-37.

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“The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual

Distortions of the Latin American Left.” Latin American Perspectives 40, no. 3 (2013): 207-

25.

Young, Kevin, and Michael Schwartz. “Can Prefigurative Politics Prevail? The

Implications for Movement Strategy in John Holloway’s Crack Capitalism.” Journal of

Classical Sociology 12, no. 2 (2012): 220-39.

“Restoring Discipline in the Ranks: The United States and the Restructuring of the

Bolivian Mining Industry, 1960-1970.” Latin American Perspectives 38, no. 6 (2011): 6-24.

“Patria, progreso y héroes: Una crítica del currículo de historia.” Revista Mexicana de

Investigación Educativa 15, no. 45 (2010): 599-620.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“El Salvador’s FMLN and the Constraints on Leftist Government.” Oxford Encyclopedia

of Latin American Politics, ed. Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost (October 2019). DOI:

10.1093/ acrefore/9780190228637.013.1768.

• Spanish translation published as “El FMLN de El Salvador y las restricciones sobre el

gobierno de izquierda.” Cuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe (San José) 17,

no. 1 (2020).

“Total Subversion: Interethnic Radicalism in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946-1947.” In Making the

Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left, ed. Kevin A. Young, 129-55. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2019. (Revised version of 2016 article)

“Introduction: Revolutionary Actors, Encounters, and Transformations.” In Making the

Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left, ed. Kevin A. Young, 1-18. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2019.

“The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual

Distortions of the Latin American Left.” In Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and

Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Steve Ellner, 249-69.

Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. (Revised version of 2013 article)

• Spanish translation published as “Buena izquierda, mala izquierda e intervenciones

benevolentes: Periodismo al servicio de una agenda neocolonial.” In La izquierda

latinoamericana en el poder: Cambios y enfrentamientos en el siglo XXI, ed. Steve Ellner, 321-53.

Caracas: Fundación Celarg/Fundación Centro Nacional de Estudios Históricos, 2018.

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REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS

Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier,

1952 to the Present, by Ben Nobbs-Thiessen. Mennonite Quarterly Review (forthcoming).

Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the

Americas, by Amy C. Offner. The Americas 77, no. 4 (2020): 670-71.

The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics, edited by Sinclair Thomson, Rossana

Barragán, Xavier Albó, Seemin Qayum, and Mark Goodale. The Historian 81, no. 4

(2019): 716-17.

USAID in Bolivia: Partner or Patrón? by Lawrence C. Heilman. Journal of Latin American

Studies 51, no. 1 (2019): 222-24.

Where Are the Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and

Europe, edited by Sian Lazar. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 15, no. 3 (2018): 120-

22.

Oil and Nation: A History of the Bolivian Petroleum Sector, by Stephen C. Cote. Hispanic

American Historical Review 98, no. 1 (2018): 158-59.

“Stimulating a Cooperative Spirit? Public Health and U.S.-Bolivia Relations in the

1950s,” by Nicole Pacino. H-Diplo, December 6, 2017.

Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia, by Raquel

Gutiérrez Aguilar. Ethnohistory 64, no. 2 (2017): 322-23.

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World, edited by Kiyoteru Tsutsui and

Alwyn Lim. Contemporary Sociology 45, no. 4 (2016): 506-08.

“Dividing the Waters: How Power, Property, and Protest Transformed the Waterscape

of Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1879-2000” (Ph.D. diss.), by Sarah Thompson Hines.

Dissertation Reviews, April 4, 2016.

The Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952-Present, by James F. Siekmeier. Bulletin

of Latin American Research 32, no. 2 (2013): 242-44.

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A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952,

by Laura Gotkowitz. Journal of Latin American Studies 42, no. 4 (2010): 863-65.

Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, by Dahr

Jamail, and Blind into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq, by James Fallows. Peace & Change

34, no. 3 (2009): 282-89.

TRANSLATIONS

A Hylton, Forrest. “Common Ground: Caciques, Artisans, and Radical Intellectuals in the

Chayanta Rebellion of 1927.” In Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left,

ed. Kevin A. Young, 19-43. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

FILMS

Venezuelans Under Siege (Spanish title: Venezuela frente las sanciones). Co-

director/producer with Atenea Jiménez Lemon and Athaimarú Álvis Jiménez. 2019. 42

minutes. Available at https://VenezuelansUnderSiege.com.

Liberating History (series of video shorts featuring historical experts, published by

Historians for Peace and Democracy). Director, co-producer with Craig Feldman. 2019-

20. Available at www.HistoriansForPeace.org.

CONFERENCE PAPERS (selected) (sole author unless noted)

“Los campesinos disidentes y el Pacto Militar-Campesino en Bolivia, 1964-1978.” Latin

American Studies Association, May 13-16, 2020 (virtual).

Banerjee, Tarun, Kevin A. Young, and Michael Schwartz. “Social Movements and Policy

Implementation: The Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty.” American

Sociological Association, New York, August 10-13, 2019.

“Una sublevación total: La Federación Agraria Departamental y la alianza obrero-

campesina en La Paz, 1947.” Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July 22-

26, 2019.

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“Coacción y consentimiento en el Pacto Militar-Campesino.” Asociación de Estudios

Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July 22-26, 2019.

“Precarious Padrino: The Military-Peasant Pact in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1964-1978.”

Latin American Studies Association, Boston, MA, May 24-27, 2019.

“Rethinking the History of the Latin American Left: New Approaches, Findings, and

Proposals.” American Historical Association and Conference on Latin American

History, Washington, DC, January 4-7, 2018.

“Izquierdas bolivianas y luchas campesinas e indígenas: Hacia una historia más

completa.” Latin American Studies Association, Lima, April 29-May 1, 2017.

Young, Kevin, Tarun Banerjee, and Michael Schwartz. “Capital Strikes as a Corporate

Political Strategy: Business Responses to Financial Reform Initiatives under Obama.”

How Class Works, Stony Brook, NY, June 9-11, 2016; American Sociological Association,

Seattle, WA, August 20-23, 2016; Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA,

February 23-36, 2017.

“Puntos de encuentro: Urban-Rural Coalition Formation in 1970s El Salvador.” Latin

American Studies Association, New York, May 27-30, 2016.

“Temptations and Demonstrations: Resource Nationalism and U.S. Responses in

Twentieth-Century Bolivia.” American Historical Association and Conference on Latin

American History, Atlanta, GA, January 7-10, 2016.

“Hidrocarburos en la revolución del 52: Movilización popular, intervención extranjera y

pleito de visiones económicas.” Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July

21-24, 2015.

“Oil and Nation in Revolutionary Bolivia: Development Visions, Foreign Intervention,

and Popular Mobilization.” Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico,

May 27-30, 2015.

“The Slippery Contours of Bolivian Nationalism: Oil in the Popular Economic

Imaginary, 1952-1969.” American Historical Association and Conference on Latin

American History, New York, January 2-5, 2015.

“Oil Nationalism and the Working Class in Revolutionary Bolivia, 1952-1969.” Labor

Politics in the Oil Industry: New Historical Perspectives, Padua, Italy, October 24, 2014.

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“Total Subversion: The Formation of an Urban-Rural Alliance in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946-

1947.” Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, May 21-24, 2014.

Young, Kevin, and Diana C. Sierra Becerra. “The U.S. Labor-Community Solidarity

Campaign with GM-Colombia Workers, 2012-2013.” Empire and Solidarity in the

Americas, New Orleans, LA, October 18-19, 2013.

“Targeting the Real Enemy: How Anticorporate Activism Can Contribute to

Government Policy Change.” Left Forum, New York, June 7-9, 2013.

“The Labor Aristocracy That Wasn’t: Factory Workers and Economic Ideas in La Paz,

Bolivia, 1952-1964.” Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, May 29-June

1, 2013.

Young, Kevin, and Michael Schwartz. “The Obama Conundrum:

Corporate/Institutional Power and Social Movement Impact on the Adoption and

Implementation of Progressive Reform.” Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA,

March 21-24, 2013; American Sociological Association, New York, August 10-13, 2013.

“Waging the Campaign of Truth: Economic Ideas and U.S. Propaganda in Bolivia, 1952-

1969.” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Hartford, CT, June 28-30,

2012.

“Gas Drilling, Rural Class Structure, and the Fracturing of a Small Town.” How Class

Works, Stony Brook, NY, June 6-9, 2012.

“Using Gramsci to Explain the Appeal of Right-Wing Movements to U.S. Workers.”

Italian Social Theory: From Gramsci to Agamben, Boston, MA, April 13, 2011.

“The ‘Healthy Nucleus’ in U.S. Public Opinion.” Left Forum, New York, March 18-20,

2011.

“Purging the Forces of Darkness: The U.S., George Eder, and the Containment of the

Bolivian Revolution.” Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, October 6-9, 2010.

“Restoring Discipline in the Ranks: The U.S. and the Restructuring of the Bolivian

Mining Industry, 1960-1970.” Stony Brook University Latin American Studies

conference, New York, April 9, 2010.

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“Patterns of Protest in Rural Colombia: The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca,

1971-1991.” New England Council of Latin American Studies, Schenectady, NY,

October 3-5, 2009.

“Educating the ‘New Man’: The Pedagogy of the 1980 Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade.”

Latin American Studies Symposium at Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham,

AL, April 7-8, 2006.

INVITED TALKS (selected)

“‘We’re Going to Keep It On the Venezuelans’: U.S. Sanctions and the Pandemic.”

Webinar organized by Massachusetts Peace Action, April 2, 2020.

“Incomplete Revolutions in Bolivia, Past and Present.” Washington University of St.

Louis, November 3, 2017.

“Anti-Imperialism in Bolivia: The Promise and Peril of Resource Nationalism.” Part of

the panel Focus on Bolivia: New Perspectives on Past and Present, Center for Latin

American and Caribbean Studies and Department of History, New York University,

March 20, 2017.

“Revolutionary Coalition-Building in El Salvador: Urban and Rural Radicals in the

1970s.” Research Colloquium Series, Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino

Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, November 7, 2016.

“Parasites, Traitors, and Patriots: Popular Development Paradigms in Twentieth-

Century Bolivia.” Economic History and Development Seminar Series, Department of

Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 26, 2016.

“Laboratorio boliviano: Intervención norteamericana y la economía política de la

contrarrevolución, 1952-1964.” Universidad Nuestra Señora de La Paz, Bolivia,

September 28, 2010.

“The Propaganda Model and Other Patterns in U.S. Press Coverage of Latin America.”

Part of the panel U.S. Policy in Latin America: Economics, Human Rights and Media

Complicity, Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, VA, May 1, 2010.

CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED

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Revisitando los procesos revolucionarios de México y Bolivia. Asociación de Estudios

Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July 22-26, 2019. (Co-organized with Carmen Soliz)

Rethinking the Left in 20th-Century Latin America. American Historical Association and

Conference on Latin American History, Washington, DC, January 4-7, 2018.

New Histories of the Latin American Left. Latin American Studies Association, Lima, April

29-May 1, 2017.

Rethinking the Salvadoran Revolution: Political Cultures, Ideologies, and Praxis. Latin

American Studies Association, New York, May 27-30, 2016.

Revolución y desarrollo: Economía y formación del Estado, 1940s-1970s. Asociación de

Estudios Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July 21-24, 2015. (Co-organized with Hernán

Pruden)

Revolution and Development: Economy and State-Making in Bolivia, 1940s-1970s. Latin

American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-30, 2015.

Resource Conflicts and Popular Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century Latin America. American

Historical Association and Conference on Latin American History, New York, January

2-5, 2015.

Inter-Ethnic Popular Struggle in the Twentieth Century: The Andes and Central America.

Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, May 21-24, 2014.

Anticorporate Activism and Progressive Policy Change. Left Forum, New York, June 7-9,

2013.

Creating Leverage: Non-Electoral Strategies for Change in the Obama Era. Left Forum, New

York, March 18-20, 2011.

Indigenous Movements in Latin America: Past, Present, and Future. New England Council of

Latin American Studies, Schenectady, NY, October 3-5, 2009.

PANEL COMMENTARIES

Histories of Popular Resistance. Graduate History Conference, University of

Massachusetts Amherst, March 9, 2019.

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Movement, Migration, and Nation-Building. Graduate History Conference, University of

Massachusetts Amherst, March 25, 2017.

Reworking Cold War Narratives. Graduate History Conference, University of

Massachusetts Amherst, March 5, 2016.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2009-present Bolivia: Research in 14 archives, 18 oral history interviews, and

related research trips to the U.S. National Archives in

Washington, DC, on natural resources, social movements, and

U.S. intervention

2014-present El Salvador: Research in 3 archives, 19 oral history interviews,

and 16 journalistic interviews on social movements and

political violence

2019 Venezuela: Research for documentary on impact of U.S.

sanctions

2009-2012 United States: 24 oral history interviews with U.S. military

veterans regarding wartime experiences and antiwar activism

2009 Colombia: Archival and interview research on indigenous

movements

2006 Mexico: Participatory-observation research, including 10 oral

history interviews, on autonomous education in Chiapas and

Oaxaca

2005 Nicaragua: 22 oral history interviews and archival research on

the 1980 National Literacy Crusade

COLLEGE COURSES TAUGHT

Strategies for Liberation. Social Thought and Political Economy 491H, University of

Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2020.

The U.S. in Latin America. History 392E, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Spring

2019, Spring 2021 (planned).

New Approaches to History: Revolutionary Visions, Past and Present. History 200, University

of Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2018.

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Workers and Work in the Americas. History 693W, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Fall 2017, Fall 2019.

Mass Resistance and Political Strategy. Social Thought and Political Economy 491H,

University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2017.

History of Mexico. History 354, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Spring 2017,

Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021 (planned).

Capitalism and Alternatives in Latin America. History 220, University of Massachusetts

Amherst. Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2020.

Power and Resistance in Latin America. History 397PR and 397PRH, University of

Massachusetts Amherst. Spring 2016, Spring 2017.

Poverty, Inequality, and Alternatives in Latin America. History 397PA, University of

Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2015.

Latin American Revolutions. History 595L and 450, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Spring 2020.

History of U.S.-Latin American Relations. History/Political Science 216, Stony Brook

University. Summer 2011.

Modern Latin American History (Master’s level). History/Continuing Education 517,

Stony Brook University. Spring 2011.

Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Societies. Latin American and Caribbean

Studies 200, Stony Brook University. Summer 2010.

Revolutionary Movements in Latin America. History 380-J, Stony Brook University.

Summer 2009.

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

2017 Planning Grant, Center for Racial Justice and Urban Affairs, University of

Massachusetts Amherst (co-PI, with Millie Thayer, for project “Mapping

Policy Impacts on Pioneer Valley Latin@ Communities,” March-June 2017)

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2016 Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst (for January

2018-December 2018)

2011 Bernard Semmel Memorial Award for dissertation research, Stony Brook

University

2011 Student Defender of Justice Award, New York Civil Liberties Union

2010 Jackson Turner Main Award for best History seminar paper in 2009-10

academic year, Stony Brook University

2009 Comprehensive Qualifying Examination, Passed with distinction, Stony

Brook University

2009 Tinker Foundation summer research grant, Stony Brook University

2007 Frankel fellowship, Stony Brook University

2007 Butler Prize for most distinguished thesis in the field of African, Asian,

and Latin American History, Wesleyan University (for thesis “Expressing

What They Live: Radical Pedagogy and Power in Southeastern Mexico,

1990-Present”)

2007 Dutcher Prize for academic achievement in History, Wesleyan University

2007 Juan Roura-Parella Prize for general academic achievement, Wesleyan

University

2007 Levy-Spira Prize for excellence in Latin American Studies, Wesleyan

University

2006 Phi Beta Kappa early inductee, Wesleyan University

2006 Davenport summer research grant, Wesleyan University

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2017-present Steering Committee, Historians for Peace and Democracy

2015-present Collective of Participating Editors, Latin American Perspectives

2010-present Article/book manuscript reviewer for 20 academic journals and presses:

The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History; Bulletin of Latin

American Research; Cambridge University Press (2x); Cold War History;

Hispanic American Historical Review; História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos;

Journal of Contemporary History; Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies;

Latin American Perspectives (21x); Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American

Studies; Mobilization: An International Quarterly; Peace & Change: A Journal of

Peace Research; Routledge (2x); Social History of Alcohol and Drugs; Social

Movement Studies; Third World Quarterly; University of California Press;

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University of Nebraska Press; University of Pittsburgh Press; War in

History

2012 Organizing committee member, How Class Works conference, Stony Brook

University

2008-2009 Organizing committee member, annual graduate student conference in

Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Stony Brook University

NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS (selected)

“When Black Movements Win, Everybody But the 1% Wins.” Truthout, December 24,

2020. With Megan L. Jordan, Joshua Murray, and Michael Schwartz.

“No Co-Sponsor of ‘Medicare for All’ Has Lost Reelection in the Past Decade (Even in

GOP-Leaning Districts).” Common Dreams, December 21, 2020. With Richard Lachmann

and Michael Schwartz.

“A Tipping Point for the Defeat of Fossil Fuels? How to Stop Big Energy in Its Tracks

(Quite Literally).” TomDispatch, December 10, 2020. With Richard Lachmann and

Michael Schwartz.

“To Push Biden Left, We Must Build Movements to Challenge His Corporate Backers.”

Truthout, November 21, 2020.

“The Bolivian Left’s Election Win Is a Positive Sign, But It Inherits a Dire Situation.” The

Guardian, October 21, 2020.

“Workers and Consumers Have Forced GOP Governors to Mandate Masks.” Jacobin,

September 13, 2020. With Michael Schwartz.

“How the 99% Can Force the 1% to Defeat COVID-19.” Salon, July 12, 2020. With

Michael Schwartz.

“History Shows That Sustained, Disruptive Protests Work.” YES! July 8, 2020.

“The Cops Can Be Defeated – But Not By Taking Obama’s Advice.” Jacobin, June 17,

2020.

“Letting Latin Americans Live.” NACLA Report on the Americas 52, no. 1 (2020): 93-99.

With Atenea Jiménez Lemon. (Spanish version)

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“HAHR Forum on Contemporary Bolivia and History.” Hispanic American Historical

Review blog, December 18, 2019.

“Our Debt to Central American Refugees.” Published by Democratic Socialists of

America and Historians for Peace and Democracy, September 9, 2019.

“Liberating the Left’s History.” Fifteeneightyfour (Cambridge University Press blog),

August 27, 2019.

“Washington Intensifies Its Collective Punishment of Venezuelans.” North American

Congress on Latin America, August 14, 2019.

“Will Climate Change Make Family Separations the Norm?” Truthout, August 25, 2018.

“Who Wants the Iran Deal Canceled?” Counterpunch, November 27, 2017. With Richard

Lachmann and Michael Schwartz.

“The Huddled Masses Were Never Welcome.” Counterpunch, September 5, 2017.

“A Partial Peace in Colombia.” Against the Current 187 (March-April 2017): 9-11.

“Who’s Calling the Shots?” Jacobin, February 6, 2017. With Tarun Banerjee and Michael

Schwartz.

“When Capitalists Go on Strike.” Jacobin, February 3, 2017. With Tarun Banerjee and

Michael Schwartz.

“Why They Hate the Deal with Iran.” Counterpunch, July 15, 2015. With Richard

Lachmann and Michael Schwartz.

“A Winning Strategy for the Left.” Jacobin, May 18, 2015. With Michael Schwartz.

“War by Other Means in El Salvador.” North American Congress on Latin America,

March 16, 2015.

“Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism.” Against the Current 175 (March-April 2015):

18-22. With Diana C. Sierra. (Spanish version)

“Community Democracy Confronts Mining in El Salvador.” Upside Down World,

December 2, 2014. With Diana C. Sierra.

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“Washing U.S. Hands of the Dirty Wars: News Coverage Erases Washington’s Role in

State Terror.” NACLA Report on the Americas 46, no. 2 (2013): 58-61.

“Turning Michigan into Colombia: The Global Assault on Labor and the Prospects for

Solidarity.” ZNet, December 25, 2012.

“The Real Enemy in the Middle East: Why U.S. Leaders Fear Arab Democracy.” Z

Magazine (September 2012): 41-44.

“The Propaganda of False Trade-Offs: Pitting the Public against Social Spending, Good

Wages, and Environmental Protection.” NYTimes eXaminer, March 27, 2012.

“Contempt for International Law: A Survey of New York Times and Washington Post

Editorials on Iran.” NYTimes eXaminer, March 16, 2012.

“To Repress or Co-Opt? OWS Media Coverage Mirrors Splits within the 1

Percent.” The Indypendent (November 2-22, 2011): 15.

“Laboratorio boliviano: Intervención norteamericana y la economía política de la

contrarrevolución, 1952-1969.” Análisis Político (La Paz) 15 (2011): 87-108.

“Deficit Myths: The Six Most Prevalent Lies about Budget Deficits and Economic

Recovery.” ZNet, July 24, 2011.

“Two, Three, Many Colombias: The Logic and Consequences of the U.S. Vision for

Latin America.” Foreign Policy in Focus, December 29, 2010.

“Discrediting Alternatives to Neoliberalism.” NACLA Report on the Americas 43, no. 5

(2010): 45-48.

“Honduras, Iran, and the Propaganda Model.” ZNet, July 4, 2010.

“Colombia and Venezuela: Testing the Propaganda Model.” NACLA Report on the

Americas 41, no. 6 (2008): 50-52.

“Targeting Civilians: The Path to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Counterpunch, August 9-11,

2008.

“The Atomic Bombing of Japan: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Reexamines the Japanese

Surrender.” Counterpunch, August 6, 2008.

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“The Effects of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq: Tracking Violence and Popular Opinion.” Z

Magazine (online) (March 2008).