In the West, the era of grand, strategic pacts between nation-states seems to have come and gone....
The referenda that rejected marriage equality in Taiwan last month was not only a huge blow to the country’s LGBT community, but also a political setback to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party ...
The "yellow vest" uprising is about more than Macron's ill-conceived fuel tax. It's sympt...
Strict integration protocols can have the opposite effect on asylum seekers, compounding their se...
Ethical concerns about last week's CRISPR breakthrough in China are valid. But they can evolv...
Rowdy fans added to the annals of soccer stupidity by forcing organizers to cancel the hugely ant...
Europe’s aggressive migration policy has seen Italy dive into the obscure world of national...
PARIS — Human migration is the story of our times. Victims of conflict and climate change, pushed by poverty at home and pulled toward opportunity abroad, people on the move are both a catalyst ...
PARIS — Suspected of hacking a dissident into pieces in its consulate in Istanbul, the Saudi regime has become the target of public outrage — until the story dies down, at least. Which raises an ...
People in Colombia seem to have forgotten that in the not-too-distant past, they were the ones se...
After being left behind in the Internet revolution, places like France, Malta and Switzerland are...
MUMBAI — They say that human memory tends to shut out trauma. But the pain caused by the attack 10 years ago on Mumbai will always be difficult to forget. What happened on November 26, 2008 was an ...
-OpEd- BERLIN — Theresa May can only lose. The British Prime Minister is fighting alone against a grand alliance of conspirators, poisoners, and wire-pullers, supported by opportunists, ...
-OpEd- PARIS — While Brexit uncertainty continues with “last-chance summit” after “last-chance summit,” the hard questions are becoming more difficult to avoid with each passing day. Are we ...
-OpEd- BERLIN — Thousands of students marched through Tehran last weekend, and state television broadcast the protest march live. The crowd burned U.S. flags and pictures of President Donald ...
-Analysis- PARIS — And then, Brazil. The list of countries that are switching to so-called “strongman” regimes keeps growing. Vladimir Putin's Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey, Narendra ...
The expanding movement to denounce sexual assault is a symptom of the problem, not the cure.
America's midterm elections saw Democrats recapture the House, but lose ground in the Senate....
-OpEd- CAIRO — Following last Friday’s attack on two buses and a microbus in Egypt’s Minya governorate, killing at least seven Coptic Christians and injuring 16 others, both domestic and ...
The tendency of politicians in Latin America (and beyond) to cite Christ in their speeches may in...
President-elects Jair Bolsonaro and Andrés Manuel López Obrador may not have the sa...
-Analysis- MUNICH — Angela Merkel has seldom sounded so straightforward and genuine. It was a clear speech, it was an honest speech. It was such a remarkably clever speech too that you could ...
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