In early April, the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York City adopted an international arms trade treaty (ATT) that is supposed to regulate global arms deals. It is also expected to bring more transparency into the $70 billion business. The five largest arms exporters are -- according...

Kathryn Bolkovac had a passion for doing what is right, representing an institution that symbolizes the culture of peace, humanity and international justice like no other in the world: the United Nations. After living up to the moral standards set by...

There are places of longing to which one returns again and again because they are beautiful and exotic. Or the exact opposite. Perhaps they have become home in their striking, first otherness. The heavy door to Chez Josephine in New York's theater district conceals one of the last places of...

A never-ending, seemingly inescapable flood of digitized images might form the average consciousness today. Depending on the individual, their history, social factors, and consumption habits, this contemporary reality can be as inspiring as it can be overwhelming and counterproductive. An inflation of forms of expression and media are easy enough...

The Museum of Russian Art is taking an alternative route these days, expanding their variety of work to artists who are not necessarily from Russia, and not even from Eastern Europe, but from Scotland.

Darren Jones is showing at the museum,...

Nouriel Roubini, internationally acclaimed finance pop star, demands the introduction of a new discipline at the universities of the world, that of "criminal economics." Together with Roberto Saviano, the investigative journalist from Italy who has been a presumed target of Mafia godfathers for the past four years, he presented a...

I am not for the first time writing on behalf of the immigrant community to Germany, as the daughter of a Greek immigrant in Germany. On October 21st of 2010 I posted a "note to Angela Merkel" wondering about her statement that multiculturalism has apparently failed in Germany. With her...

Do you know this feeling, when you unexpectedly stumble upon a hidden treasure of physical or non-physical nature and it fundamentally changes, but completes, your day? In this instance this author took an inquisitive peek into the windows of the building that is 80 Grand Street, across from Paulus Hook...

On this year's Holocaust Remembrance Day, psychologist Dr. Kurt Gruenberg of the Sigmund-Freud-Institute in Frankfurt, Germany talks of the sometimes disturbing force of unconscious memory. Gruenberg has been working for the Sigmund-Freud-Institute since 1990, he also heads the initiative "9th of November" and established a meeting group for survivors of...

Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a German politician, active in France and Germany and a member of the European Parliament. His German-Jewish parents had fled Nazism in 1933 to France and Cohn-Bendit was born in Montauban in 1945, where he spent his entire childhood.

Cohn-Bendit turned into a student leader...

The fears about a nuclear meltdown in the Fukushima power plant after a tsunami hit Japan last Friday requires an all-embracing, around-the-clock-analysis by the media outlets in the U.S. to keep the American public informed. An obligation that comes, (if you as the contemporary cynic gave up on the educational...

Once upon a time the artist tended to also be an intellectual of wide, general knowledge with an impact on society in the fields of fine arts, politics, journalism and education. Now the smart phone is replacing decades of everyone's accumulated knowledge at the touch of a button. It is...

Lawrence Baldassaro, professor emeritus of Italian at the University of Wisconcin-Milwaukee offers with his latest book, Beyond DiMaggio, a profound analysis on how baseball links to the Italian-American experience. Publishers Weekly, the international news website of book publishing and bookselling writes about Beyond DiMaggio:

Lawrence Baldassaro explores the role Italian-Americans...

A night before the official opening of the current exhibition "Global Africa Project," lines were forming in front of the Museum for Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City. People were impatiently waiting to catch a glimpse of what Africa has to offer artistically today. They were overwhelmed by...

Liebe Frau Merkel,

Normally I wouldn't abuse my platform at The Huffington Post to burden the public with my subjective views on the world. Your remarks last week made it time for an exception.

Since Saturday of last week, Frau Merkel, the remaining trust in my home country's rational regarding...

The commercial sexual exploitation of children or, colloquially, child prostitution, is nothing New Yorkers would expect in their own back yards. Pictures of Phuket or Rio de Janeiro are more common to the average news consumer, but New York City is no exception. Mia Spangenberg pointed out in her study,...

Schlingensief was one of those absolute-need-to-be-around people in Germany. A custodian of artistic decency in its very best sense: we will question anything that is presented to us, no matter who is paying, no matter whose friend we are, or might lose on the way to the discovery of truth,...

New York's Mayor Michael Rubens Bloomberg is a controversial political figure. Ranking at number 17 on Forbes magazine list of the super rich, he represents a New York, which has little to do with the former haven for progressive art and intellectual inspiration, known from the 60s, 70s and 80s....

Nobel Prize winner and Professor for Economy at Columbia University, Joseph Stiglitz, just returned from a book tour in Europe where he introduced his widely acclaimed analysis of the Financial Crisis, called Free Fall. In an interview he explains the future of the Euro Zone, how it was possible to...

News about a record number of suicides within the US Army, 160 soldiers on active duty who took their own lives in 2009, sparked a debate in the US media in late 2009 that didn't last very long. The shame, the horror and if nothing else, the war fatigue is...