The Argentine government has bent over backwards to please the UK while getting nothing in return.
Category: Ideas
Moreno is now reversing course on austerity measures that provoked nearly two weeks of mass protests. But it may be too little too late to salvage his reputation.
The expected reelection of the conservative ‘Law and Justice’ (PiS) party could usher in new restrictions against the rights of people to live as they choose.
As Trump leads a U.S. retreat from the region, Russia has methodically moved back into a position of influence that it had in Soviet times.
The U.S. president’s abrupt decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria was short-lived. But backpedal as he might, the damage is already done.
Careful cultivation of the Amazon’s curative fruits and plants could be far more profitable than destructive practices like soy or livestock farming.
Alaa was taken away by the Egyptian state. Mohamed al-Baqer, a human rights lawyer, was also detained when he showed up to attend Alaa’s interrogation.
Some of the world’s most insular places are cut off by land, not water.
The government recently gave foreigners the go-ahead to visit 137 peaks in four states, paving the way for a potential flood of visitors to the world’s tallest mountain range.
Throughout an exceptionally long political career, Jacques Chirac, who died Thursday at 86, personified the paradoxes of a country passing from one century to another.
It would not be the first time Brazil and Argentina vie to clinch privileged ties with Washington, though for its economic weight and its president’s conservative fervor, Brazil may be ahead in this game.
From climate change and migration, to tobacco deaths and exploitative business practices, governments and multilateral bodies are systematically failing to act.
Schools still make a point of teaching students to write the old-fashioned way. And in France, kids still have to learn cursive. But are teachers fighting a lost cause?
Speaking the truth includes an honest expression of doubts and shortcomings. How many politicians and public figures do that.
Leading French daily says that France (and the West) must live up to claims as protectors of freedom as represented by the exiled American whistleblower.
As the showdown deepens over the contested region with Pakistan, India is now weighing whether to water down its nuclear no-first-strike policy.
The world-renowned Brazilian novelist was one of thousands jailed and tortured during the military regime (1964-1985) that Brazil’s current President Jair Bolsonaro holds in such high esteem.
Amateur fashion aficionados are using new technology to celebrate the pre-internet past, and forcing labels to reconsider their archives.
The far-right League party in Italy, rising in popularity, now faces the prospect of being marginalized by its extremist rhetoric after this summer’s gamble by its populist leader backfired.
The border of Colombia and Venezuela has become a lawless land where people are kidnaped and killed with impunity.
China is setting up a naval base in Djibouti. Could it do the same in Latin America? Depends on the scope and scale of its growing economic interests in the region.
It’s taken the powerful prime minister just 100 days into his second term to compromise the federation’s basic foundation.
It’s easy to fault Jair Bolsonaro for his apparent indifference to the unfolding environmental disaster in Brazil. But there’s plenty of blame to go around.
The war on drugs continues to feed the flames of violence in Colombia, even in this so-called ‘post-conflict’ period.
Some of the recent racist mass killers were also worried about the degradation of the environment. It’s part of a old twisted ideology that mixes love of nature and xenophobia.
ISTANBUL — One of the more prestigious duties for the pilots of the Turkish Air Forces during the Cold War years was the “nuclear watch.” The four main air bases in Turkey had been housing U.S. nuclear warheads since the beginning of the 1960’s. The nuclear class planes piloted by Turks were assigned to drop […]
Economic storm clouds are gathering on the horizon. But just because everyone’s talking about it doesn’t mean governments are ready to deal with it — in fact, quite the opposite.
Digitalization does not spare the banking sector. In the era of artificial intelligence and algorithms, the bank must know how to reinvent itself and put digital technology at the service of humans.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently said he favored restoring the death penalty. It would bring back an ugly face of Turkey, both politically and morally.
It would be a mistake to assume that Italy has seen the last of the controversial ‘Captain,’ who will have a different kind of influence at the helm of the opposition.
Boris Johnson’s decision to temporarily suspend Parliament marks his choice to play the people against the elected representatives. Italy, the U.S., Brazil and elsewhere, have seen similar ploys.
Many around the world are seeing a radical reduction in generating trash as key to tackling our massive pollution problem. The big change, as certain residents of Buenos Aires explain, is to stop buying packaged products.
Email, instant messaging and social networks have multiplied and accelerated written exchanges both inside and outside of work. But there are certain functions that only oral communication can achieve.
We can only solve our traffic problems if we stop idealizing car and bike sharing, and focus on how people behave and what they want.
How economic actors, communities and developing countries fare in the digital economy will depend in large part on how much control they have over the data they produce.
Venezuela’s authoritarian leader is tightening the screws on his armed forces, the former regime bulwark now suspected as a seedbed of sedition, in a national setting of economic desperation and political despair.
A traditional party and a populist movement may join forces to get Italy out of its political crisis and avoid yet another election.
Adults have a lot of leeway when it comes to raising kids. But that doesn’t mean their power should be absolute — parents don’t, after all, have ownership of their children.
It has become fashionable to blame the climate crisis on the economy, but it’s important to fight against this misconception, and the trivialization of the problem.
The Chinese leader may officially defend the idea of ‘one country, two systems’, but in fact his management of the crisis in the archipelago is in total contradiction with this principle. And the protests continue to grow.