By Rashad Mammadov Forgotten by most outsiders for the past 22 years, a frozen conflict between two former Soviet states, Azerbaijan and Armenia, flared up unexpectedly last week in the volatile Caucasus. At least 30 military and several civilians lost their lives and...
There are walls, fences, trenches and berms. In Iraq, Israel, Morocco, China and elsewhere. They are admissions of the breakdown of diplomacy and destined to fail. An Iraqi street vendor stands beside a concrete wall in Baghdad, 11 February 2016(EPA/Ali Abbas)...
Whatever his takeover of the Republican party says about U.S. politics, Donald Trump is capitalizing on anxiety over changes in the global economy. We asked News-Decoder correspondents for their thoughts on Donald Trump’s campaign to become U.S. president. Last...
Strange hair, billions in fortune and a magical ability to climb the polls despite statements that would sink other politicians. Long before Donald Trump terrified the U.S. establishment, Silvio Berlusconi was doing it in Italy. Silvio Berlusconi, Rome, 20 January...
Latin American demagogues such as Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez have made careers with invective and outlandish accusations. Have they met their match in Donald Trump? We asked News-Decoder correspondents, who have lived all over the world and observed many leaders,...
By Bernd Debusmann In the most bizarre U.S. election campaign in generations, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have taken pole position in the race to become the presidential candidates of their parties. Trump easily won the Republican primary in South Carolina on...
Mainstream media depicts conflict as a violent struggle between good and bad. A Danish professor suggests a different way of thinking about conflict. Syrian refugee children in Lebanon (Wikimedia Commons/Trócaire/Eoghan Rice) Do you find it difficult to understand...
Obama, Bush, Clinton, Palin — Deborah Charles covered them all. Here’s what it was like for a woman on the campaign bus. What word best describes Barack Obama? Hillary Clinton? George W. Bush? Deborah Charles covered four U.S. presidential campaigns, and...
Gene Gibbons saw lots of politics during three decades covering the White House. But there’s no predicting who will succeed U.S. President Obama. “All bets are off this year.” Gene Gibbons saw lots of politics during his three decades covering the...
David Schlesinger has observed China for three decades. In an interview, the former Reuters editor-in-chief reflects on China’s complexities. “I’ve become less and less sure about what I actually understand about China.” That’s a...