Opinion

We play many roles, but few of us ever realise the importance of being a father, a wife or even a friend. We confuse duty and responsibility with fatherhood...

When a Russian court sentenced the Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko to 22 years in prison in March, she let loose an attack against President...

The International Monetary Fund and European finance ministers hailed their new agreement on Greece as a "major breakthrough." In reality,...

Let’s say Donald Trump manages to romp his way to the White House in November. The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik paints a dire picture of what will follow:...

About 60 miles north of Cairo’s Tahrir Square – the epicenter of the Egyptian uprising in 2011 – there is a secondary school students call “the...

At the moment, Europe’s attention is focused on Austria’s presidential election, where a far-rightist was defeated by a razor-thin margin on Monday. But...

Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have propelled their campaigns in part by appealing to globalisation’s losers. The blue-collar American workers who...

Bayer's $62 billion, all-cash bid for Monsanto is a risky proposition, and not because of the difficulty of raising enough cash for the biggest...

On May 16, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Great Britain and France signed a secret pact in London. Officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, the...