global village: all articles

Obama's success and Blagojevich's shame flow from the two wrestling motifs of Chicago's history. Plus: Big Think discusses the possibility of urban renewal in a time of recession.

The media exposure of homosexual activity in the Muslim world is filled with paradox

For immigrants, the door of belonging is opened by language

A Mississippi-New York journey, or how intelligence is more than skin-deep

Post-colonials in power reinforce Europe's national-identity narratives

 

What does enduring powerlessness do to a country's citizens?

 

The charismatic reformist Islamism of Nadia Yassine seeks a new path for Morocco's poor

Can the radius of empathy be extended to include "others" in pursuit of a more inclusive "we"?

An inflow of sub-Saharan Africans is forcing Moroccans to look behind as well as over to Europe

A Malian woman's story of genital mutilation lies at modern Europe's nerve-ends, says KA Dilday

The election of Nicolas Sarkozy is a sign of France’s divisions, its fears, its conservatism, and yet its hunger for change. KA Dilday measures a complex moment.

How do western societies accept outsiders into their midst? KA Dilday reflects on one dimension of the Virginia Tech massacre.

A self-education in positive masculinity is at the core of efforts to contain the spread of HIV/Aids, writes Patricia Daniel.

French and other European intellectuals are mobilizing for intervention in Darfur. Who are they really writing about, asks KA Dilday

The pressure on universities to manage and monitor their charges in the wider social interest is in tension with their role as incubators of civic virtue, says KA Dilday.

European Union pacts with poor nations push the dispossessed further to the periphery. There is a more humane route to development, trade-policy specialist Lebohang Pheko tells Patricia Daniel.

The Somali-Dutch dissident’s critique of Islam resonates with KA Dilday’s experience of fundamentalist Christianity in the American south. But their distance lies also in the journey beyond.

The systemic, worldwide degradation of girl children makes the Commission on the Status of Women meeting at the United Nations a vital event, says Patricia Daniel.

The scale of Iraqis' displacement matches the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. In addressing it, Sweden shames the American architects of war, says KA Dilday.

Behind the mild racism of a misplaced compliment is a subtler, deeper prejudice that confronts every black "outsider" in the west, says KA Dilday.