-Essay- MUNICH — Artists are now using anti-Semitism and Islamism to shock, and that’s not surprising. But if both listeners and rappers started to finally take music seriously, this could ...
BERLIN — This past week marked the beginning of a period of peace and quiet for Muslims around the world. It is Ramadan, a month dedicated to reflection, prayers, and fasting, where disputes are ...
Why do Americans brunch so hard? "I don't know," says one young woman from Baltimore. "I'...
Low wages, government censorship and even arbitrary detentions. Practicing journalism has become ...
Beirut-based contemporary artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan uses sounds to shine a light, so to speak, o...
After voting to ban metals mining, residents in the mountainous area west of Bogota are staking t...
Bright ideas to limit ways that motherhood so often leads to gender pay gaps and blocked careers ...
In an interview with Miguel Wiñazki of Clarín, the Nobel laureate and author of the...
New restrictions in Chile effectively target poorer migrants, many of whom are Afro-Caribbeans fr...
NEW DELHI — Despite India’s recent progress, its international influence is not commensurate with its size, might and tradition. India is often criticized for being unable to punch above its ...
More and more young and not-so-young people are returning home to live with their parents. A phen...
-Analysis- WASHINGTON — Americans love to contemplate - and legislatively promote, to whatever degree possible - the virtue of hard work. Here in the United States, we already work more hours ...
Women's bodies have become proxy battlegrounds for prejudice and intolerance, a brutal means ...
The Colombian government's fondness for "happiness" polls may be an attempt ot distract peopl...
France will be marking 50 years since the month-long student uprising that challenged the establi...
The U.S. trade deficits that have prompted the Trump administration to raise tariffs have a resul...
GENEVA — At a time when trust and truth are under attack, it's somehow comforting to see that some reputations can still go untarnished. For the third year in a row, Swiss company Rolex has ...
In northern Italy, the city of Pavia has higher-than-average cancer rates and widespread cases of...
-OpEd- Tensions are reaching a bursting point over Syria! Just as Saddam Hussein's (hypothetical) possession of weapons of mass destruction led U.S. President George W. Bush to invade Iraq, the ...
As the state’s efforts to secure churches become more centralized, church scouts play an in...
-Analysis- The Western world isn’t short of public enemies right now. There are, of course, the usual suspects: Putin, Assad, even Mark Zuckerberg seems to have joined the club. But there’s ...
For decades, economists scorned protectionism as a losing proposition. Now some have begun to adm...
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