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

The permanently emblazoned image of poverty is a toddler in some faraway place, his tattered clothes soiled by the filth in which he...

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,...

Exaggeration serves no purpose when it comes to the Syrian crisis. From horrifying tales of rebel extremists eating hearts of dead men to...

The good news is that the nuclear talks in Vienna between Iran and the major global powers have so far delivered quite optimistic...

“A war rages in the far reaches of planet earth. Antarctica’s pristine waters run red with blood.” So goes the melodramatic intro to the...

As the Syrian civil war approaches its fourth year, prospects for peace are increasingly dim. Western-led negotiations have proved...

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

Last year, I wrote about Uruguay’s ambitious project to fully legalize and regulate its domestic marihuana industry (also, here’s at BPR...

Join the Janus Forum on Thursday April 24th as Noam Chomsky, an outspoken critic of US and Israel foreign policy, and Dennis Ross, a...

My last piece addressed the polemic surrounding the Taiwanese government’s intention to ratify the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement...

Last Thursday, the world lost one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. At the age of 87, Colombian author and Nobel...

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...

According to former Liberal Democratic Party minister Hakuo Yanagisawa, if Japan’s “baby making machines” stayed at home, they would...

The South China Sea is home to several island chains rich with resources, land and influence. China and Malaysia are two of the major...

The history of targeted mob violence in this country is not pretty. The act of lynching – heavily racialized in the American context –...

On March 17, the Taiwanese government announced that it was ready to ratify the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) with China....

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