Across the United States, politicians and voters are gearing up for midterm elections, where candidates for local, state and national...

If Russia wasn’t successful, it was a darker horse that was: an Austrian bearded drag queen who sang an empowering song titled “Rise like...

Google’s army of Street View cars. Photo by Jaap Meijers From charcoal lines on animal hide to complex code in a Silicon Valley server,...

Your average Russian is becoming more religious, and it matters. The Russian Orthodox Church is not only touting an increasingly devoted...

The two largest sports events of the year come with much fanfare: The NFL’s Super Bowl is famous for multi-million dollar advertisements...

On January 13, Belgium legalized euthanasia for children, regardless of age. The legislation is aimed at relieving terminally ill minors...

Russia’s military intervention in Crimea, which recently resulted in a referendum on the secession and annexation of the Crimean...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not endeared himself to his more liberal, reform-minded constituents. Last summer,...

After Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea, he was charged with trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union. Although the Russian president has not...

For years, Finland’s education system has sparked panic and envy throughout the world. Ever since the results of the first Program for...

Russia’s annexation of Crimea, unrest in Ukraine and subsequent narratives of a “New Cold War” bring new hopes and worries to leaders in...

Dissatisfaction with President François Hollande’s tenure has spurred on a conservative movement in France. With an embarrassingly low...

I’m certainly a little late to the party on Ukraine news – leading up to Russia’s bold annexation of Crimea, Ukraine was gripped for...

If voting booths are any indication, Turks are largely unfazed by their leader’s growing authoritarian streak. Despite months of...

A short walk away from Rome’s idyllic old town, with its world-famous monuments and high-end boutiques, Rome’s working class and middle...

Turkish citizens today have not-so-distant memories of government officials and police breaking into their homes, looking under beds and...

On May 18, 1944, Joseph Stalin forcibly deported the Crimean Tatars in what is known as the “Surgun” (Crimean Tatar for ‘exile’). As the...

There’s something archetypal about the ignominious flight of a newly unseated despot — Louis XVI, the Tsar and the Shah all come to mind....

“Jew, leave! France is not yours!” This was the rallying cry of up to 120,000 protesters on January 26. The protest, dubbed the Jour de...

Russian expansionism makes many alarm bells go off in the Western world. When Putin’s forces occupied Crimea on February 27, observers in...