There are countless reasons for becoming a writer or a poet, but thankfully very few that we could consider reasonable.
Category: Ideas
The country’s landscape is ravaged by plastics and environmental collapse seems imminent. And yet religion appears to often be on the wrong side of the issue.
Economist Bruno Alomar pleads for an appeasement of tensions on both sides of the Atlantic regarding the Internet and tech giants.
President Trump is not curbing global trade alone, but is part of a trend traced back to the crash of 2008. And the legislation actually dates back to the 1950s.
Donald Trump’s decision to threaten Mexican exports over migration is weakening years of U.S.-Mexican cooperation, further shaken by this weekend’s El Paso shooting.
Indian Prime Minister Modi’s decision is both unsurprising, and a shock.
The future of architecture is here: the studio MVRDV in Rotterdam is one of the most daring in the world. An exhibition in Innsbruck shows why.
Can the possibility of the end of the world give meaning to life? A French philosopher (and mother of young children) fears the worst but tries to live the best she can.
Brazilian President Bolsonaro is wrong to think rainforest destruction is purely an internal matter. The patrimony of the natural world is at stake.
A derivative of the Bauhaus revolution, the Isokon building brought modernity, and affordable rent, to conservative Britain — 85 years ago.
Squabbling online isn’t the only way to connect with the world.
To meet its current healthcare needs, France looks to the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec which are giving more autonomy to nurses rather than boost the number of doctors.
ISRO is forced to compete with U.S. tech giants for India’s engineering talent. And with its breakthrough moon mission, India shows the success of its working model.
In a world that is closing up, industrial policy is coming back in force. But to succeed, it will have to be reinvented
Ekrem Imamoglu’s victory in the recent rerun election in Istanbul was a breath of fresh air for Turkish democracy. But to really recover lost ground, the country needs a new set of rules, writes Yakup Kepenek.
-OpEd- PARIS — We live in a society that changes rapidly, and we wish for schools that reassure us. Schools that are forward-looking, perhaps. Even our schools in the Third Republic that we refer to so often were anything but retrograde. On the contrary! The school believed in the ability of its Black Hussars — […]
A spotty performance as a communicator and uncertain start to downsizing the state mark the fiery Jair Bolsonaro’s first six months as president of Brazil.
There has been an obvious and unnerving crackdown on dissenting voices in the weeks since Narendra Modi began his new term as prime minister.
It is necessary to drastically reduce our beef consumption for both sanitary reasons and to fight against climate change, yet livestock will remain indispensable for their contributions to the environment.
Google and Facebook’s power endanger democratic discourse. It is time to design an infrastructure for European social media platforms.
No, no…not one of *those Yankees! But this lifelong American baseball fan (Milwaukee Brewers was his childhood team) is rediscovering the sport in his adopted home of France.
In the land of Charlie Hebdo and Plantu, the decision of the American newspaper to eliminate cartoons in its international edition is not welcome news at all.
Information technology was supposed to make everything move faster. We need to rethink the way we use our digital tools to serve our real needs.
The U.S. president has little regard for the rules of trade and diplomacy, as evidenced by the extortion tactics he just pulled off with Mexico.
The trend of what the French dubbed décroissance (degrowth) overlooks how progress and technology are bound to improve our lives.
What’s the point of pretty produce if you can’t squeeze it and smell it too? Columnist Michelle Arévalo Zuleta makes the case for plastic-free fruits and veggies.
It’s not that Italian women don’t enter politics. But they don’t, for the most part, rise through the ranks to national leadership positions. Why?
It used to be South America’s shining star. But these days, things seem to be a bit rotten in the state of Chile, where corruption scandals are eroding public confidence.
When it comes to human health and the planet’s well-being, certain activities are simply untenable. Researchers also know that self-regulation never works.
CAIRO — If Egypt’s daily newspapers are your only source of news, you might have woken up Tuesday to discover that a citizen by the name of Mohamed Morsi al-Ayat died yesterday during a court hearing on espionage charges. In actuality, the seemingly unremarkable 67-year-old was the first democratically elected, civilian president of Egypt. A […]
Though seductive as pure financial innovation, Facebook’s crypto currency project risks a concentration of power that must be stopped at all costs.
Social media dialogue and reader comments on news stories suggest that the far-right’s xenophobic rhetoric resonates for immigrants.
I was not at Tiananmen those weeks in the spring 1989, when thousands of students occupied the square, demanding more room in a modernizing China. Nor was I there in those horrid hours between the third and fourth of June, when under the cover of night the People’s Liberation Army first surrounded the area, then […]
Against a tide of right-wing nationalism, Germany’s Basic Law — with its emphasis on fundamental rights — is as relevant now as it was 70 years ago, when it first appeared.
From France to Poland, the far-right draws people in with plot lines that offer fast and easy answers but no long-term solutions.
The recent EU election results show that younger voters in particular are sick and tired of slow-motion climate policies.
President Donald Trump’s threat to raise tariffs against Mexico over immigration is political blackmail, and potentially makes nonsense of any trading deal with the U.S.
‘Nice legs baby!’ Argentina has taken steps to make certain kinds of verbal harassment a punishable offense — much to the chagrin of some feminists.
Economists say it’s worse than the Great Depression. Money is worthless in the ruined South American country, and too many are going hungry.
Migration was a hot-button topic in last week’s EU elections. But deeper demographic issues are shaping the region’s future and economic wellbeing.