Jonathan M. Katz
Foreign Policy
Charlottesville, VA, United States
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Haiti’s Elites Keep Calling for the U.S. Marines
The United States must break the habit of disastrous intervention. → Read More
Did American Business Leaders Really Try to Overthrow the President, Like in Amsterdam?
How David O. Russell’s movie messes around with the story of the Business Plot. → Read More
Biden is continuing the U.S. pattern of saying Haiti’s woes aren’t our problem
The countries’ interests have long been intertwined — usually in ways that work to most Haitians’ detriment. → Read More
The Problem With Saying That Haiti “Can’t Catch a Break”
Focusing the country’s luck lets those responsible for its plight off the hook. → Read More
The Political Benefits of Haiti’s Massive Earthquake
Last weekend's earthquake was a catastrophe. But for the country’s political class, it came at exactly the right time. → Read More
U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again
The nation’s poverty and chaos has been shaped by Washington for decades. → Read More
Good morning. The president just announced a coup.
If you went to bed at a reasonable hour last night—and congratulations on your excellent judgment if you did—here are some developments you missed: Neither candidate crossed the threshold of 270 electoral votes needed to win the election, though Biden appears to be narrowly ahead. → Read More
The costs of complicity on COVID-19
March 3 feels like a lifetime ago. (For some of us, it was.) Italy was days away from its first regional lockdown. Trump was still praising China’s “tremendous progress” in fighting the coronavirus. In the U.S., the official totals stood at 115 people infected. Nine Americans had died. → Read More
An epidemic of 'law and order'
Last night, the president of the United States called on the military and police to murder black residents of an American city. Several journalists noted that the president’s most blatant words—“When the looting starts, the shooting starts”—were ripped off the late Miami Police Chief Walter Headley, who made it a personal slogan in the late 1960s. → Read More
The coronavirus disaster hasn't happened yet
Trump’s failed efforts to cover up the scale of the epidemic in the United States is why a complete economic shutdown was necessary in the first place. His impatience will only make it worse. → Read More
We can’t afford another CDC cover-up
There is strong reason to believe the real toll of coronavirus in the US is much higher than we know, and being underreported for political reasons. That could have disastrous consequences for all of us. → Read More
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest manmade disaster. → Read More
How the New York Times made 'The Charlottesville Lie' hoax possible
Welcome back to The Long Version, a newsletter by Jonathan M. Katz. Amid the spate of mass shootings last week, Saturday’s massacre of at least 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso posed a particular problem for conservatives. In addition to being the deadliest of the slaughters, it was also the only one with an overtly electoral mission: Massacring Hispanic people to help Republicans win. → Read More
Why Puerto Rico’s Ricardo Rosselló Was Brought Down but Trump Wasn’t
The biggest difference was in the streets. → Read More
“The Whole Facility’s Culture Is Rotted From the Core”: What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Saw Inside the El Paso Camps –
What stands out most about the budding concentration camps in El Paso, Texas, is that they don’t stand out at all. An unmarked beige-brick office building holds dozens of children, blinds shut to prying eyes from the surrounding bars and upscale hotels. A low-slung detention complex is painted to disappear into the surrounding desert, barely […] → Read More
How Did a Man Who Murdered Three Muslims Receive a Presumption of Racial Innocence? –
In the old photos, the ones taken right after he was arrested for gunning down three Muslim students in their North Carolina home, Craig Stephen Hicks appears as a dumpy, chinless man with a mousy beard cut too high above the jawline. The style, if you can call it that, looks reasonable from the front […] → Read More
Who Was Naive About Bernie Sanders Meeting the Sandinistas? –
This was adapted from Jonathan M. Katz’s newsletter, The Long Version. To get the backstory behind big international stories delivered to your inbox, subscribe at katz.substack.com. On December 4, 1984, a dump truck carrying volunteer government coffee pickers was ambushed in northern Nicaragua. The attackers, rebel soldiers known as Contras, ripped through the truck with […] → Read More
Birth of a Birthright
Meet Wong Kim Ark, the Chinese immigrant whose Supreme Court case changed America. → Read More
Why It’s Fair to Compare the Detention of Migrants to Concentration Camps
Not every concentration camp is Auschwitz. The term is much older. → Read More
This is how ignorant you have to be to call Haiti a ‘shithole’
President Trump's defenders don't know anything about Haiti's history — or the United States's. → Read More