Max Granger
@maxgranger.info
writer / translator • words at The Intercept, El País, The Baffler, Foreign Policy, etc • translating Central American journalism @elfaro.net • maxgranger.info
The "War on Drugs" is a war on the poor. Always has been.
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The "War on Drugs" is a war on the poor. Always has been.
The "narco-terrorists" in question:
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The "narco-terrorists" in question:
The U.S. is scaling up its military presence in El Salvador as Trump threatens war with Venezuela and escalates a rampage of extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The U.S. is scaling up its military presence in El Salvador as Trump threatens war with Venezuela and escalates a rampage of extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Bukele: “Thank you, Mayor, I’m the one taking notes.” 👍
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Bukele: “Thank you, Mayor, I’m the one taking notes.” 👍
A Salvadoran mayor and close ally of President Nayib Bukele paid a police death squad to murder at least 36 civilians, new witness testimony claims.
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A Salvadoran mayor and close ally of President Nayib Bukele paid a police death squad to murder at least 36 civilians, new witness testimony claims.
My latest translation. A first-hand account of the early days of El Salvador's state of exception, by Carlos Martínez.
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My latest translation. A first-hand account of the early days of El Salvador's state of exception, by Carlos Martínez.
Bernie Sanders: “If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation...Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn't do it.” 😵💫
October 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Bernie Sanders: “If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation...Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn't do it.” 😵💫
From the guys who insist Palestinian journalists can't be trusted because they're all propagandists for Hamas...
October 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
From the guys who insist Palestinian journalists can't be trusted because they're all propagandists for Hamas...
The Bukele dictatorship has banned the use of gender-inclusive language in public schools.
October 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Bukele dictatorship has banned the use of gender-inclusive language in public schools.
my politics in a nutshell
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
my politics in a nutshell
You’ll be shocked to learn…
September 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
You’ll be shocked to learn…
After declaring a full arms embargo on Israel, Spain joins Italy in dispatching a naval escort to protect the Gaza aid flotilla from further Israeli aggression.
September 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
After declaring a full arms embargo on Israel, Spain joins Italy in dispatching a naval escort to protect the Gaza aid flotilla from further Israeli aggression.
A few years ago I got invited by some NGOs to meet with Sunstein and other Biden officials who were pretending to care about border deaths. He didn't say much when I spoke about US policy killing migrants, but his smirks were unmistakable: he's a sociopath (obviously!)
September 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A few years ago I got invited by some NGOs to meet with Sunstein and other Biden officials who were pretending to care about border deaths. He didn't say much when I spoke about US policy killing migrants, but his smirks were unmistakable: he's a sociopath (obviously!)
Framed another way: Tom Homan, an Obama ICE appointee who contracted with Biden’s top private prison company (Geo Group), took a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents but Biden’s Justice Dept refused to prosecute.
September 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Framed another way: Tom Homan, an Obama ICE appointee who contracted with Biden’s top private prison company (Geo Group), took a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents but Biden’s Justice Dept refused to prosecute.
Must-read by @petizagavarrete.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social. Much of this will sounds familiar to US readers, given that Bukele's state of exception has served as a model for Trump and the global right's authoritarian agenda.
September 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Must-read by @petizagavarrete.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social. Much of this will sounds familiar to US readers, given that Bukele's state of exception has served as a model for Trump and the global right's authoritarian agenda.
Spare me the free speech lectures from the Democrats who supported the mass murder of journalists documenting their genocide and the repression of college students who opposed it.
September 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Spare me the free speech lectures from the Democrats who supported the mass murder of journalists documenting their genocide and the repression of college students who opposed it.
Even in Trump’s free speech utopia some things are too obscene to say on TV (see below). Calling for the extermination of homeless or trans or black people is fine though.
September 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Even in Trump’s free speech utopia some things are too obscene to say on TV (see below). Calling for the extermination of homeless or trans or black people is fine though.
September 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“It’s a Holocaust but the Jews started it”
September 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“It’s a Holocaust but the Jews started it”
Doing politics the right way
September 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Doing politics the right way
Must read from a former fact-checker at The New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...
September 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Must read from a former fact-checker at The New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...
That’s weird, I was assured by this very paper of record every day for the past 700+ days and as recently as this morning that Israel was fighting a “war with Hamas.” Oh well, glad we cleared that up half a million deaths too late!
September 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
That’s weird, I was assured by this very paper of record every day for the past 700+ days and as recently as this morning that Israel was fighting a “war with Hamas.” Oh well, glad we cleared that up half a million deaths too late!
Weird how liberalism’s greatest luminaries keep making the same “mistakes.” bidoun.org/articles/hou...
September 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Weird how liberalism’s greatest luminaries keep making the same “mistakes.” bidoun.org/articles/hou...