By Jack Craver If you run in elite European circles, you’ll rarely meet anyone who seriously believes their country should leave the European Union. In EU founding nations such as France and Germany, “Euro-skepticism” has historically been relegated to the margins,...
Death and violence scarred a meeting of world leaders in Genoa, Italy in 2001, marking the height of two decades of protests against globalization. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters) By Nelson Graves Death and violence scarred a meeting of world leaders in 2001 that marked the...
By John Rogers Three Al-Jazeera journalists sent down for long jail terms in Egypt, a sentence widely seen in the West as intended as a warning to others; journalists targeted for kidnapping; journalists killed or injured. All in the pursuit of the news in difficult...
By John Mehaffey Guessing the identify of the athlete selected to light the stadium flame at the Olympic opening ceremony is an absorbing but mostly futile exercise serving mainly as a pleasant diversion in the buildup to the Games for those privileged to cover the...
By Jane Macartney For Democrats, Obamacare is the most sweeping social change in decades and one that will help millions to afford to see a doctor. Republicans see the reform – the Affordable Care Act – as a stealth means to bleed the rich to pay for the poor. It has...