The Obama campaign tirelessly raised money, recruited volunteers and set number quotas in language that seemed to have been torn straight from a Bain consulting manual.
In Afghanistan, opium is not clandestinely traded on some back alley black market. Opium is the market.
The similarities are stark: a Baathist regime in power for decades, a ruling religious minority accused by some of fuelling sectarian resentment and praised by others for maintaining a secular identity, the emergence of Sunni-Shi’a strife
Last month, a number of slave migrant workers were discovered in the cellar of a Moscow store. It was, alas, just one example of a much a wider practice exploiting vulnerable groups across the country. In a special oDRussia investigation, Grigory Tumanov reports on the worrying prevalence of moder
The Koestler Trust’s 50th annual exhibition in London of art by prisoners, immigration detainees and secure mental patients closes this weekend. What will Free have shown us? And what’s ahead for its prize-winners? Review
The distinctions between 'natural' and 'artificial' performance enhancement are largely abitrary - humans are a thoroughly technologised species. It is the social context of Armstrong's actions that is the true site of moral failings.
Large parts of Indian society bay for the blood of religious minorities engaged in alleged terrorist activities, but look askance at what ought to be labelled crimes against humanity by Hindu fanatics
Last week, OurKingdom launched a petition asking that the new Director General of the BBC be appointed transparently and openly. Today a closed-door decision was made. Have they learned anything?
The vote against women bishops raises many questions, including whether Church of England bishops should continue to sit in the House of Lords.
On the day that millions of anti-austerity demonstrators took to the streets across Europe, an official EU event took place on ‘engaging Europe’s citizens’. A troubled participant tells her story.
One of the first women to be ordained as a priest in the Church of England bitterly regrets the General Synod’s vote against women bishops.
