Thatcher Does Not Sow. Margaret Thatcher is dead, and hagiography on the former British Prime Minister—brilliantly interrupted by Ken...

by José Francisco Muci Lander Four days after the announcement of President Hugo Chávez’s death on March 5, Tibisay Lucena, head of...

Last week, I wrote of the various problems that plague several of the BRIC nations, which include troubling and skewed demographics in...

More on Argentina and “hotly contested” rocks. Only this time the topic is not news anymore, and it didn’t even capture the headlines...

In an interesting article that dates back to 1996, Ahmed Mansour, a graduate of Al-Azhar University, provides a detailed analysis of the...

There are times (for instance, when one is boarding a plane in Sicily and dreading the cold rain that will undoubtedly great her at the...

“Families are always rising and falling in America,” Nathaniel Hawthorne observed, and the same is true of nations.  Their economies...

Having a rough semester? Providence weather got you down? Worried about job prospects, the dire state of your love life, your thesis...

As the sixteenth round of negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) closed in Singapore last week, it is time to examine the...

In September 2011, two friends and I took a twenty-six hour bus ride through the dirt roads linking Brasília to São Félix do Araguaia, a...

In discussing the Middle East, media outlets and political pundits alike can’t seem to avoid lame catchphrases, which reduce the complex...

A response to “Nuclear Iran, Safer World” by Omar Ben Halim by Katherine Long While I agree with Mr. Omar Ben Halim that a nuclear Iran...

As the Latin American Caesar lay dying, his trusted triumvirate kept up its bedside vigil. For over a year and a half the political...

Modern Brazil is a country defined by its optimism. Marked by a history of prosperous booms and repressive regimes, the country has often...

Uranium. Campaign checks. Oil. What’s really going on in Mali. France is at war. At the time of writing, 4,000 French soldiers are...

How an election became a contest for Korea’s past as well as its future. by Woojeong Jang On December 19, 2012, South Korea held its...

Women’s rights in India needs a new model for action. by David Adler I used to travel two hours a day on the Delhi metro to go to...

In my last article, I concluded that the Egyptian Preamble does not address the problem of sovereign immunity. I did not explain,...

This week, I originally planned to write of a new and recent phenomenon, the assumption of China as the globe’s leading importer of oil,...

It is no secret that revolution, successful or otherwise, rarely produces results as glorious as initially imagined. For example, the...