Simply stating over and over again that something – in this case a European democratic federation – is possible and desirable does not make it more likely.
You have to keep threatening to use nuclear weapons to make nuclear deterrence work. A view from Germany on the planned deployment of new US nuclear weapons.
El 25 de octubre los votantes argentinos van a las urnas para elegir a su nuevo presidente. Pero el modelo de desarrollo extractivista del país no está en discusión. English.
Lejos del sueño democrático de progreso, los ciudadanos en México se encuentran inmersos en una democracia peligrosa y aún sumamente frágil. English.
Far from the democratic dream of progress, citizens in Mexico are living in a dangerous and still fragile democracy. Español.
The Egyptian regime tries to show the world an image of respect for freedoms and rights while widely violating them.
Netanyahu did have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, disgraced former Iranian President, who with the support of Khamenei, would say one foul thing after another about Israel.
Moscow's entry into Syria's war is a challenge to the United States. But it also conjoins the two powers in military-political blunderland.
Republicanism brings into sharp focus an articulation of common freedoms strived for under extremely varying political conditions, in different times and places, with the shared commonality of facing unequal odds.
Russian military involvement appears to be increasingly focused on propping up the Assad regime, contributing to a partitioned Syria in which Russia establishes a firm foothold on the eastern Mediterranean.
Peter Oborne spent two weeks in Damascus and gives a compelling account of people's struggles and steadfastness in government-held territory.
