The parties may not be coming together -- but they may be coming apart. Where there used to be two, soon, there could be lots.

In 2006 New York reporter and activist Brad Will was killed by paramilitaries in Oaxaca, where he was covering a teachers’ strike. Since the strike--demanding higher salaries and free books for all students--the movement has expanded but the violence hasn’t stopped. Tami Gold, in her film Land, Rain and Fire looks at the impact of Nafta, privatization, and land appropriation on the people of the region.

Is there something more to the doodles of our nation's presidents? Sasha Archibald and Sina Najafi scoured archives and libraries and turned up some unusual documents.

Hampshire College made headlines after announcing that it would divest from companies that do business with Israel. Do their actions indicate the beginning of a larger campaign? Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada, Brian Van Slyke of Hampshire College’s Students for Justice in Palestine and others discuss the divestment campaign.

In this week's Audit, we're examinig Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's thoroughly uninspiring bank bailout plan, which fails on almost every level. What's more, some of the most insightful (and stinging) critiques of the proposal are coming from progressive media.

The first big test of the Obama administration's approach to Latin America will come in April when Obama travels to Trinidad for the Summit of the Americas. Although there is hope, even among Latin American leaders, that the new administration will change US course in the region, there are few indicators so far to suggest that it will.

If Barack Obama was in fact a socialist, as right wing ideologues suggested back in October, he probably would have taken a more conciliatory tone toward Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez upon entering office.

Love em or loathe em, when it comes to term limits and the New York Times, it all depends on who you are, and what you do. Can anyone say, "All the hypocrisy that's fit to print?"

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has indicated a willingness to engage in direct talks with Barack Obama. How will the United States respond and what does it say about US policy in the region? Today on GRITtv author and journalist Greg Grandin, attorney Eva Golinger and others discuss the new administration’s approach to Latin America.

Peace isn’t having a good week in the Middle East. Bombs continued to drop on Gaza and right wing fanatics made fast paced gains in Israel’s Knesset. Avigdor Lieberman’s extremist party, Yisrael Beiteinu, picked up 15 seats in the February 10 election (nearly one fourth of the seats needed for a coalition government), even beating out the so-called moderate Labor party, which picked up 14 seats.