The UK government's recent attempts to legislate against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions are reminiscent of Thatcher during South African Apartheid.
There is no room for Britain’s turning away from Europe to a fantasy mid-Atlantic or neo-Commonwealth position of the kind floated, typically unseriously, by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.
15 years after the global war on terror was launched, America faces a deeply embedded (remarkably unsuccessful) version of militarism, and a seldom recognized crisis in civil-military relations.
Try listing similarities and differences between the US today and Weimar Germany in the 1920s -30s. At this edgy moment, the similarities, of course, tend to jump out at you.
How many presidents does it take to deport 11 million people?
The suffering of Syrians is seen through four distorted lenses. But to find a sustainable political solution in Syria, we must move beyond clichés.
Coincidiendo con la llegada de Obama a Buenos Aires, una operación de des-ideologización y desmemoria está en marcha en Argentina. English
What do Cuban women imagine for their country’s future? In the wake of recent reforms, Cyd Bernstein talks to four women leaders about feminism, culture and cultivating change.
Coinciding with Obama's arrival in Buenos Aires, an operation of de-ideologization and forgetfulness is under way in Argentina. Español
A Venezuela é o país latino-americano - não incluindo as nações do Caribe - com o consumo mais elevado per capita de combustíveis derivados do petróleo. Con a gasolina practicamente a zero dólares, a contaminação é massiva. Español English
Venezuela es el país de América Latina con mayor consumo por habitante de combustibles derivados del petróleo. Con la gasolina prácticamente a cero dólares, la contaminación es enorme. English Português
No other country in Latin America consumes more oil-based fuel per person than Venezuela. With petrol close to zero dollars, air pollution is massive. Español Português
