Argentina, Bolivia, Egypt: Countries around the world embrace resource nationalism and pursue the nationalization of oil and gas companies.
Robert Koehler | Posted 04.19.2012
We have to begin thinking and organizing ourselves beyond the arbitrary constraints of nations and beyond our current, resource-devouring economic system. We have to imagine a global culture that doesn't pit humanity against nature.
The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 04.19.2012
Few people have anything good to say about Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed perpetrator of the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway that killed 77 pe...
Stephen Palacios | Posted 04.16.2012
The global economy benefits from a labor force that can transact business in more than one language, which would seem to reinforce the need for bilingual education. While English is the lingua franca of today's global economy, it is hard to argue that knowing another language is a disadvantage in today's (or tomorrow's) market.
Dr. Ali Binazir | Posted 04.11.2012
With Valentine's Day approaching, here's an interesting letter I got recently, applying to both men and women.
Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 02.07.2012
In a country that often sees race in terms of White America and Black America, like Latinos, Asian Americans live in a racial middle where we must choose between being Asian (or Chinese or Filipino or Indian) or American, but not both.
Farah Jassat | Posted 04.03.2012
Bundle the Beatles, Madonna and Elvis into a cultural exchange time-travelling cabinet. Open its door in Egypt and out will step Umm Kulthum. No, it's not an exaggeration. That was how much she meant to the Arab world. That is still how much she means.
Lawrence Wittner | Posted 03.21.2012
Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so.
Amarnath Amarasingam | Posted 02.18.2012
Little has been written about North Korea's driving state ideology - the "Juche idea" - and the clues it may hold for predicting the nature of post-Kim Jong Il North Korea
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie | Posted 01.19.2012
Like religious people before me, I struggle with the conflict that arises between love of country and love of God, a conflict that seems to be particularly acute at this moment in American history.
Robert Koehler | Posted 11.29.2011
The division of the world into 194 random fragments, mostly born of war and exploitation, locked in a state of perpetual mistrust and ever-shifting tensions toward one another, is more problem than solution in the 21st century.
Grant Lyon | Posted 11.08.2011
If you believe in freedom of religion but don't understand the irony behind your anger at a mosque being built near ground zero, then you are the number one culprit of dumb nationalism in 2011.
Carlo Strenger | Posted 11.01.2011
Israeli society and its polity have moved towards increasing fragmentation. As opposed to the picture Israel's right wing tries to paint, it goes way beyond the tensions between Jews and Arabs.
Reverend Billy | Posted 10.19.2011
Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture -- all wrapped into one big institution -- that is simple common sense! Â When we...
G. Roger Denson | Posted 08.02.2011
No it's not a printing error. ILLUMInations is the title of the 54th Venice Biennale, which opens June 4 and runs through November 27. The mixing of...
Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011
Embracing our economic obligations to our own countrymen would be a far more meaningful step for anyone who really cares about other people than the phony humanism of economic globalists and "free trade" advocates.
Uriel Abulof | Posted 01.03.2012
For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011
My friend had a big gash in his head. "Please, help us tell the world what is happening. Tell them how we were viciously attacked," he said. "Tell them we will die here if we have to, but we will not turn back."
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011
One problem with Friedman's September 14 column is that it creates the erroneous impression that Chinese online politics equals blogging. In reality, online bulletin boards and chat rooms are also very important.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
The South African novelist J.M. Coetzee writes with a pen that's sharp as a knife, in ink made from his own blood. Or so it seems, for each word seems carved or cut, obtained at great price, offered as a sacrifice.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011
The Chinese are fascinated by America, and often perplexed by our society's inherent contradictions. They are amazed a nation of 300 million self-starters does not come apart at the seams.
Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011
Even the cynics might have felt a sputter of optimism when the Kremlin youth group Nashi, Vladimir Putin's militant pep squad, announced its plans for this year's doctrinal summer camp at lake Seliger.
Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011
Take action, do something good, and by your deeds as well as your words, you can live the patriotic spirit every day. This is one great reminder of the holiday we've just experienced, and the mindset it helps us to celebrate.
Leonard Zeskind | Posted 05.25.2011
During the past year the Tea Parties have managed to capture the angst and the sense of political and social dispossession felt by a definite strata of middle and working class white people.
Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011
Never mind that Keflezighi is an American citizen. Never mind that he's lived in the United States for 22 years. Never mind that he has raced for the United States in the Olympics.
The European Magazine | Posted 05.29.2012