The attacks on Charlie Hebdo were the harbinger of a greater battle to come — not the prophesied “clash of civilizations” between the West and Islam, but the storm of conflict between a free, equal society and one governed by fear and terror.
After the election of a new far-left government in Greece, the Eurozone risks losing one of its first members, and perhaps much more.
Continue reading With Greek Debt, A Reason to Rethink the Euro
Oftentimes for the West, practicing what it preaches is either inconvenient or detrimental to the developing world.
Continue reading Do As I Say, Not As I Do – The Gulf Between Western Ideology and Action
The special relationship between the United States and Israel plays an outsize role in shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East — so why is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now jeopardizing it?
The Constitutional Court’s decision to dissolve the left-oriented Unified Progressive Party will have a chilling effect on the Korean political left.
Continue reading Censorship or National Security? – Political Dismemberment in the Republic of Korea
Just days after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Boko Haram killed as many as 2,000 people in northern Nigeria.
Managing illegal immigration and asylum seekers is one of the great problems threatening the unity of the European Union.
Continue reading Broken Promises – Europe’s Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
In order to gain popular legitimacy, Die Linke must divorce its present-day image from that of the former Socialist Unity Party of East Germany.
Nearly three months after the collapse of a ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists, little has changed in Eastern Ukraine — except for the number of casualties.
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