Our author ponders the leadership quality in Texas, from whence he nearly sprung. His asterisks speak volumes.
If al-Qaeda comes under more pressure, it will switch strategies again, which will then make drones irrelevant.
The global demonstrations of 2011 both highlight the reality of economic system-failure and reveal its linkage to the crisis of resource constraints. The result is a measure of the scale of change needed over coming decades.
The severe economic upheaval in Europe has not been matched by a political resurgence of the radical right. Cas Mudde asks why - and whether the dog could yet bark.
The Palestinians' current political impasse offers them only difficult choices, says Ghassan Khatib.
A review of the financial disaster-tourism from the master chronicler of the foibles of finance (Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, Michael Lewis). Think of banks as belonging to the public sector, argues Lewis, and don't think that the US is immune from great reckoning ahead
The prospect of an Israeli military assault on Iran's nuclear assets is growing. The scale and impact of any attack would be far greater than most observers expect.
On the eve of Remembrance Day members of parliament urge the UK government to stop sending under 18-year-olds to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The author prepares to attend the UN Climate Change Summit, COP17, in Durban, and wonders if there is any solution to this particular version of the Prisoner's Dilemma
Currently, by and large, the economic system emerging from the crisis is bound to be substantially very similar to the pre-crisis one, improved in some respects, but worsened by large scale cuts in welfare expenditure made necessary by the (debatable) purpose of achieving fiscal balance. The post-
