If our world is becoming full of poets and executioners, we need more judges and thinkers to counter the new tendency.
Why is US paying twice as much as the average Nato ally when it is geographically removed from all major conflict zones?
Once admired for its commitment to pluralism, India no longer stands out as a model democracy.
Now that Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, it seems fitting to address a source of perplexity that has persisted ever since he arrived on the political scene: how can the US’ fundamentalist Christians be so enthusiastic about so thoroughly un-Christian a politician?
To survive this period of populist assaults on the democratic order, courts will need to embrace their proper role as arbiters of justice.
Perhaps Trump’s biggest contribution has been to Europe’s political unity.
Rarely have the shortcomings of world leaders and existing institutional arrangements been so glaringly obvious.
The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.
Israeli clarions are trumpeting vengeance. When they fall silent, introspection will follow.
If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.
Should we be surprised that so many people view the growing concentration of wealth with suspicion, or that they believe the system is rigged?
For decades, Israel has tried to manage the conflict, only to be managed by it.
Could the debt woes of Country Garden, the behemoth Chinese real-estate developer now facing billions of dollars in losses, augur the cycle’s next turn?
The dollar’s uncontested reign is coming to an end, with far-reaching global economic consequences.