Voltaire reminds us that today's Islamic fanaticism is a kind of pathology of religious faith.
An Egyptian writer shares her struggle with keeping bipolar disorder from invading everything she...
-Analysis- PARIS — Next month marks the two-year anniversary of the Bataclan attack — and the one-year anniversary of its reopening. The Nov. 13, 2015 shooting that took place at the historic ...
The rapid rise in part-time employment has undermined what was, until now, the instrument of choi...
You shouldn't play with fire, with the deepest feelings of a people. That counts for Cataloni...
-Analysis- Donald Trump, the world’s biggest cyberbully, has issued another Twitter threat. The target this time wasn’t North Korea’s “Rocket Man,” but another favorite: the media. Yesterday, ...
-OpEd- SAO PAULO — Barbarism has actually become popular in the Philippines. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 78% of Filipinos support the "license to kill" President ...
-Analysis- The fraught drama of politics landing in the arena of sports has popped up recently in several different places around the world. It also happens to date back (at least) as far as ...
A young American in Paris watches Trump in Las Vegas, in the shadow of Obama and Orlando — ...
Will China's unfulfilled promises of real market reforms finally come to pass? Eyes on the 19...
Switzerland is behind only the U.S. and Yemen in rate of gun ownership. For Americans, maybe it&#...
It is the great challenge (and paradox) of our time: Far from erasing identity claims, globalizat...
-Analysis- PARIS — Imagine if a foreign entity neutralized the public health system in the Paris region. Or if it went on to attack the electric grid, interfering with the meteorological ...
Did adverse conditions force such Latin American strongmen Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez and N...
French President Emmanuel Macron has just set himself up as the European Union's would-be sav...
The success of the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the election is history’s rev...
-Analysis- Is there ever a good time to hold an independence referendum? Of course the answer to that question, from Kurdistan to Catalonia, depends on whom you ask. For those looking to ...
Once again, life imitates art. In his masterpiece 1984, George Orwell wrote, "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and ...
China, for one, sees the incumbent German Chancellor as the "mother if not grandmother" of all of...
-OpEd- In his account of the 1985 earthquake, which killed between 6,000 and 30,000 people (there are no precise figures) and destroyed more than 800 buildings in Mexico City, Carlos Monsiváis, ...
-OpEd- TURIN — Everyone knew that Australian politician Rachel Carling-Jenkins had filed for a divorce, but nobody knew why. She explained it herself, a few days ago, standing up to speak ...
-Analysis- The blueprints of the Middle Ages are back. Even as metal and glass have long since replaced stone and mortar, there is an unmistakable parallel to be drawn between medieval ...
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