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Insurance companies in the US before Obamacare considered the male body the default
What Chavista theorist Heinz Dieterich can tell us about the current crisis in Venezuela – and what he misses
After its titanic civil war, can Syria remain a united state? And if it does – if Syria can be put back together again – how do you repair its people? These are not idle words when, across the border, the people of Lebanon have again been marking the mournful anniversary of the start of their Read more…
Venezuela has been rocked in recent weeks by almost daily protests and counter-protests, as right-wing opponents of socialist President Nicolas Maduro seek to bring down his government
Courageous cultures are created by centering ourselves on our strengths, our achievements and encouraging members to take chances with the support of the group
Kris Kobach is the GOP mastermind behind a secretive system that purged 1.1 million Americans from the voter rolls
At the World Economic Forum-Africa, Germany pitched a dubious new G20 corporate strategy
There’s no shortage of pastoral pundits worrying over the crisis in Caracas while ignoring the ongoing coup in Brazil
Everyone kept wondering what the first sign of descent into dictatorship would be. This is it. Government by sadism, government by humiliation, government by fear and caprice
The bigger concern, of tamping down the warmongering, of lowering the risk of nuclear conflict should be made to appeal to as many as can hear it
Hamas’ new Charter seems like a scrupulously cautious attempt at finding political balances within extremely tight political margins
The Venezuelan government’s call for a constitutional assembly is a positive step for breaking the political deadlock, but it still won’t solve the country’s most pressing problems
The US is choosing to support its Kurdish ally in Syria, in defiance of Turkey, whose aim is to prevent the establishment of a quasi-independent Kurdish state there
The world’s eight richest people own as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population (3.5 billion people). Countries are destroyed (from Iraq to Afghanistan, from Libya to Syria, and chances are that the next victims will be either Iran or North Korea) in the name of values that are supposed to protect Read more…
Would the world be better off if the world’s largest gold miner ceased to exist?
Trump hasn’t yet done anything as egregious as al-Sisi or Erdogan. But he is clearly supporting them and perhaps learning from their tactics
Millions of people are looking for the hope that a strong political movement provides, but the window is shrinking
Those who claim to be “conservatives” would shred the very fabric of the nation
Macron takes 90% of the vote in bourgeois Paris but Le Pen got 56% of the workers across France
Suddenly the world is full of leaders from Theresa May to President Erdogan of Turkey claiming to unite their countries while visibly deepening their divisions
It is primarily the economic policies of Europe, including France, over the past decade that have allowed the National Front to grow into a legitimate opposition party
For the weakest, globalisation is an insidious colonialism that enables transnational finance and its camp-followers to penetrate deeperjojohn pilg
There are two enormous myths about global warming. One is that dealing with it is optional. The other is that the measures needed to slow the process will devastate the economy. Neither is true. On the first point, we are already seeing major changes in weather that are almost certainly related to global warming, both Read more…