Since coming into office, US President Donald Trump has signed multiple executive orders attempting to repeal the policies enacted by...

In the late 19th century, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria oversaw a period of unprecedented intellectual and cultural growth in the...

Over the last few years, extremist and populist movements have been on the rise throughout the world. Be it the Brexit referendum or...

Four days after the election of Donald Trump, an article  in the New York Times opened with the ominous statement “and then there was...

The post of Secretary General of the UN, perhaps the most symbolically important leadership position in the international community, is...

On November 8th, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi executed his very own ‘financial surgical strike’ when he appeared on national...

Respectable public opinion holds that Labour has already lost the next General Election in the United Kingdom– maybe the next couple....

The Indonesian occupation of West Papua has been described as a “neglected genocide”, a crime against humanity being committed on a...

Water has been labeled the petroleum of the next century and the subject of World War III by Goldman Sachs and Newsweek respectively....

The declaration that “tyranny naturally arises out of democracy” is the famous, anti-democratic thesis of Plato’s Republic. While the...

Brazil’s Bolsa Família has dutifully served as the flagship of Brazilian social welfare since its christening in 2003. The conditional...

What happens in an election between a leftist academic economist and a far-right, anti-immigrant populist? Austria just answered this...

Dr. Rui Maria de Araújo is the prime minister of Timor-Leste, a position he has held since 2015. A physician by training, he served as...

In 2016, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts in negotiating a peace deal that...

On October 11, Samsung issued a global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 device amid reports of battery fires. Immediately after, Samsung’s...

Indonesia, with its over 240 million practicing Muslims, is usually devoid of much of the instability that plagues the...

On October 8, 2016, a U.S.-backed airstrike led by Saudi Arabia “wrongly” targeted a funeral ceremony in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, killing...

Western countries routinely and almost systematically regard the Middle East as a historically conflict-ridden region, and the...

Women’s education level is often considered a significant indicator of modernity and socio-economic progress. Today, there is a major...

Pirates — those ancient swashbucklers or their contemporary illegal-downloading counterparts — seldom conjure images of political savvy...