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Published in: HomeFrom a school of slave masters to one of plutocrats? Yale needs new values, not new namesBlackstone boss Schwarzman wants Yale’s historic Commons to carry his name; and the university erases a second...
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Published in: HomeToday’s Christian-Jewish Zionist alliance imperils American JewryJews’ long-standing security in the United States has relied on a hard-won consensus now being undermined by an...
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Published in: HomeThe shadow war on terror is making its enemies strongerFew in the west know about the war fought on their behalf in Syria and Iraq. But they may come to know the rage that...
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Published in: HomeWhy Iran has a speedboat swarm that’s punching above its weightIn the 1980s Iran learned its frigates were no match for the US Navy. But its many small, nimble attack craft can...
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Published in: HomeA winnable nuclear war: Trump revives his generals’ dreamsRepublican presidents always want ‘small’ nukes for use, not deterrence. What’s worrying is that US military chiefs...
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Published in: HomeNorth Korea’s new missile can reach the US – just what Trump said he’d stopKim Jong-un has the bombs to put on it too – but lately it’s all smiles from Donald Trump. Is this a lesson for Iran?
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Published in: HomeWhy Trump welcomed Iran’s good neighbour Qatar – and we should be glad of itSaudi Arabia and other US allies are blockading Qatar, saying it supports terrorism. So why was its emir guest of...
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Published in: HomeIt will take more than Donald Trump to make Iran submitThe Revolutionary Guards are “Iran’s military-industrial complex”, and Trump’s provocations only make them stronger.
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Published in: HomeUS and the two Koreas prepare for another round of nuclear confrontationNorth Korea is rebuilding its ability to launch missiles and the US has got a spy plane in place to watch them – and...
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Published in: HomeNorth Korea is selling arms and breaking sanctions – does anyone care?Arming Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Libya, and making huge fuel transfers on the high seas – it embarrasses Trump, but...
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Published in: 50.50Revealed: US anti-LGBT 'hate group' dramatically increases UK spendingBig spending Christian right ‘legal army’, whose influence has soared in America under Trump, is now linked to...
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Published in: 50.50Religious and market fundamentalisms threaten gender equality at UN summitAs the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking...
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Published in: HomeStalemate for Trump and Kim, as India and Pakistan risk nuclear war over KashmirThrough aggressive rhetoric and miscalculations nuclear war can happen by accident. As the Trump-Kim circus...
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Published in: HomeWhat does Brexit mean? ‘Majority judgment’ can solve the puzzleSomething is going badly wrong in elections and referenda across the world. The culprit is an age-old voting system...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaJuan Tokatlian: "We are a region adrift in global affairs".The crisis in Venezuela and Jair Bolsonaro's access to power coincide with Latin America's slide towards gradual...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fearless Cities municipalism: experiments in autogestionFor growing numbers of municipalists, new politics means fundamentally reshaping the bundle of relationships that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA family under attack: Iranian exiles and the economic sanctionsThe sanctions force Iranians to suspend their struggle against their abusive father, fearing that the interfering...
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Published in: HomeThe wall isn’t a state of emergency but a state of exceptionThe German legal scholar and Nazi ideologue Carl Schmitt described a ‘State of Exception’ as the process by which a...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFirst they came for the ‘bad hombres’ … but the North Carolina sheriffs are speaking outAs NC immigrant arrests climb to 230 ICE announces the “New Normal” declaring how, where and why the people...
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Published in: 50.50‘Religious freedom’ claims used to defend FGM in courts in four countriesCases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality.
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