Italian Democratic Party secretary Matteo Renzi is well on his way to stardom. Earlier this year, he won his party’s primaries with a...

Turbulent by Shirin Neshat. Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons License. Turbulent is the first short film of a trilogy created by...

It was in 2006 when former Mexican President Felipe Calderon first ordered the National Army to combat the drug cartels operating in...

We live in troubling times. Protests, wars, coups, government corruption, crime and acts of terrorism are just some examples of the...

It has been over three years since the euphoria of Egypt’s Arab Spring. Hosni Mubarak’s rapid deposition and the groundswell of popular...

“Homosexuality is incompatible with scripture,” asserted Stanley Ntagali, the archbishop of Uganda, in response to accusations by British...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s current position is challenging at best. His government now has to decide whether to finally sign...

As one exercise in regional integration keeps disintegrating on one side of the Atlantic, another surges to the South of the Rio Grande....

Sri Lanka, or previously Ceylon, is a small nation with a diverse amalgam of religions and languages. During the British colonial period,...

Ireland, Angela Merkel’s sickly child, has decided to go off on its own. After taking an $87 billion European bailout to survive its...

Trouble is brewing in the Colombian coffee industry. Production collapsed in 2012, after blights and adverse weather killed a large...

On October 1, Muslims in the coastal village of Thabyuchaing in the northwest of Burma fled into the surrounding forests as their homes...

By Adam Savat They may have a stiff upper lip, but the British are having a tough time coping with cattle panic. Almost all major cattle...

Two weeks ago I published a controversial statement that the Lebanese-Syrian hostage exchange signaled the end of the Syrian civil war....

As U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014, China is poised to act as a stabilizing force in the region, reaping the benefits of...

In 2008, Russian President Vladimir Putin and now former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak were delighted when their gas monopolies...

For years, Iran and Western powers have had a relationship marked by distrust, suspicion and open animosity. The diplomatic gridlock...

In the Middle East, negotiations may (or very well may not) spell a coming peace. But while the eyes of the world have tentatively fallen...

At one point in his life, every adult Korean male must live in a military barrack, cut off from the civilian world, with just a few of...

The art of “giving back” is one some say has been perfected in the US, which gives about 2 percent of GNP each year. In 1960, it is...