Pope Francis has never let language barriers get in his way. Whether he’s conversing in Spanish, giving homilies in Italian, or...

“Climate change was once a bipartisan issue,” according to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in an email interview with BPR.  In the...

On September 13, in a town just north of Paris, two women jumped on stage at an Islamic convention about women and Islam. Once on stage,...

British politics are in a state of tumult. From the meteoric rise of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) to the unprecedented...

It’s hard to draw a line between Brazil’s arts institutions and the corporations that finance them. The Brazilian arts world depends on...

In the beginning of September, the Turkish town of Cizre found itself in the midst of an armed conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan...

The weapons arrived in crates marked “Norinco.” The rifles, grenades, and missile launchers were bought on credit — oil fields were the...

In what is considered one of the world’s longest civil wars, Myanmar may finally be able to turn a page on the ethnic conflict which has...

The Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the Russian annexation of Crimea have changed the geopolitical game in Europe. In many ways, the...

Since January, an estimated 710,000 migrants and refugees have entered the European Union. This number is about two and a half times the...

Morocco’s first Ikea was scheduled for a grand opening in Mohammedia, north of Casablanca, on September 29. When the doors of the...

In the last decade, China has become a juggernaut in international politics. It is undoubtedly the dominant force in Asia and faces scant...

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a global organization, enlisting followers from around the world to join its fight in...

Ever since the end of the 35-year Japanese occupation of Korea in 1945 and the nearly unparalleled horrors of the Korean War, South...

On October 19th, Canada found itself at a familiar political junction. Millions of citizens descended upon the polls to vote in the...

In 2008, some 85 million people in the Arab world tuned in to watch the final episode of the breakthrough Turkish television show Gümüş....

Amidst the overthrow of governments in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies...

With a KGB history, a penchant for repressing criticism at home, and a growing tendency for military aggression abroad, Russia’s...

Every day, more and more Swedish workers are working less and less. This is not because of unemployment or laziness, but due to a...

The United States has a long history of publicizing so-called “macho” men. Over the years, the prototypical macho American man has seen...