A focus on peace, equality and protecting the environment creates the best conditions for human happiness.

The crisis in Venezuela has become a media show between heroes and villains orchestrated by foreign powers. What are the likely outcomes of the current state of affairs? Español

In the millennium and a half since Islam’s advent, only men, and only Arab, or Arabic-speaking men, have interpreted its religious texts, at least publicly.

Can songs change the world? Maybe not, but they can help to ensure that the world doesn’t change us.

The government has off-loaded responsibility for funding – or withdrawing – free TV licenses, onto the BBC. Media experts Enders Analysis urge a re-think in their submission to the consultation.

Perhaps there is a very British compromise to be found?

Spain is the epitome of political instability, with a 5 party fragmentation and the impossibility of appeasing radicalised nationalists. Español

“The UK seemingly leaving the Union, leaves neither Europe, nor History. It is time also for a new sensibility and a great refusal: we refuse to liquidate peace.”

Özil, like many others, has repeatedly stated that he would prefer to play for both national football teams if international football regulations made it possible.

A long essay on why the Arab intellectual community in Berlin needs to acquire a name, shape, and a mandate of sorts.

The German legal scholar and Nazi ideologue Carl Schmitt described a ‘State of Exception’ as the process by which a sovereign leader can transcend the rule of law in the name of the public good. 

Poetry is a form of resistance against indignity. The responsibility of the writer is not only to interpret life, but to shape how we understand and inhabit our societies. Português.

The Science Congress and Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), held in India every January, are the largest events of their kind in the world. This year a curious kind of osmosis took place.

The author of international bestseller 'Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive' joins us to answer the question he dreaded – what had he changed his mind on?

Money and productivity don’t define us; love does.

From France to Malaysia, Muslim women’s rights activists are challenging those who ask them to ‘choose between being a Muslim and a feminist’.

"All the women of the world need to be saying enough to fascism, enough to dictatorship!"

If progressive academics want to work with ‘the people,’ then we’ll have to meet ‘the people’ where they are.

A system that privileges rationality over emotion is a system that protects the status quo. Stories have no such qualms.

National dialogues operate outside the permanent institutions of government; moving beyond the Westminster bubble to listen to the communities who feel disconnected from government.