Gonzalo Santos, 9/11/26. Two years ago, on September 11, 2024, I wrote an essay on the troubling, unresolved legacy of “9/11” – the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon by a non-state network of Islamic fundamentalists calling itself Al-Qaeda. I wrote it in the dying months of Joe Biden's failed presidency, a month-and-a-half into the suddenly anointed, outwardly cheerful and sunny - but utterly doomed - campaign of Kamala Harrris. I tried to analyze,

The presence on August 26, 2026, of the legendary and unwavering activist, author, educator, and revolutionary thinker Angela Davis at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) was major news in Mexico. A student of Herbert Marcuse at Berkeley in the 1960s, leader of the Black Panthers, and world-renowned ex-political prisoner, she addressed an overflowing audience of thousands, filling the main auditorium to capacity and requiring live broadcasts to multiple other

The United States under Trump: Against the World, Its Own People, and the Migrant Diasporas By Gonzalo Santos[1] Abstract This essay attempts to analyze the present conjuncture in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, from the perspective of the historical sociology of the world-system. Its underlying thesis is that the internal crisis in the U.S., which so profoundly affects the migrant diasporas now fiercely persecuted, and the renewed imperialist foreig