In many Western countries today, social and political divisions have widened to the point that attempting to bridge them seems futile. Yet one might have...
The seventeenth-century philosopher and satirist Jean de La Bruyère once quipped that, “Corneille portrays men as they should be, Racine depicts them as...
It has been less than two months since the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the right-wing League party formed a new Italian government, so it is too...
During the High Medieval Period, from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, serfs in France had no property rights. Instead, those with land had to hand...
(John Lloyd co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is senior research fellow. The opinions...
After Donald Trump appeared to side with Vladimir Putin over the US intelligence community's conclusion that Moscow meddled in the 2016 US election,...
I remember when as an American diplomat I realised my White House was no longer credible.
We may be at that same point in the Trump presidency. My moment...
Since arriving in Lebanon, Sudanese migrant worker Abdallah Afandi has been turned away from beach resorts, mistaken for a cleaner and prevented from...
For the well-off in both rich and poor countries around the world, lives are enriched by plentiful access to energy that provides light, fresh food, and...
