Tag: Global

The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.

New leaks prove the impeachment is intended to protect corrupt politicians.

Democratic forces persist amid brutal regime violence and sectarian conflict.

Plutocracy, not global competition, harms the middle class.

Prominent Hungarian intellectuals have taken surprising anti-immigrant stances.

Is there a political coup underway?

Lessons from Iceland’s brush with the Panama Papers.

Spain struggles to honor the legacy of Cervantes.

Bias and due process violations in Brazil’s massive corruption investigation.

The United States will lose the war for control of the Middle East.

Negotiations may ease the humanitarian crisis—while strengthening Assad.

Weaker European economies chafe against an anti-democratic euro.

Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.

Fears of terrorism, and President Erdoğan’s rivalry with an exiled theologian, have become excuses for censorship and repression.

Renewed U.S. relations may worsen inequality for Cuba’s blacks and women.

Student protests and the deepening crisis of the post-apartheid order

For anti-Assad rebels, a southern spring has become a kind of suicide bomb.

The Front National is not in government, but it’s still making gains.

The neglect and abuse of Pakistan's tribal areas.

The history of terrorism in France offers lessons in how best to respond to the Paris attacks.

Is a centralized European Union compatible with democracy?

Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the UK Labour Party, is helping to revive the radical left.

In Israel and Palestine, two states are still better than one.

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.