Politics

Sweden, the humanitarian superpower, is ridiculed, after ultra-liberal approach to fighting ongoing drug gang wars sees them invite violent criminals to meet with police, relatives of victims and prosecutors over...

Voting can be a tumultuous affair, dividing people and causing anxiety even if it'snot about Brexit or Trump – like in the case of picking the sexiest celebrity, whichthese days...

"Star Wars" used to be religion to past generations, but Disney's oversaturation of the franchise has gone too far with "The Mandalorian." The fever-pitch enthusiasm that surrounded the franchise is...

A lot has happened in 25 years; mobile phone batteries have got worse, social media has overtaken our lives, music has got worse, and Donald Trump is now president. But...

The divisive new title by Hideo Kojima is already leaving gamers split on their views towards the storied game developer, but now his narcissism, big mouth, and fragility to critique...

With increasing speculation that the coup which ousted Evo Morales in Bolivia might be linked to the lithium contract the country signed with China, the government in Beijing is at...

So, here we are, almost six years since the first “EuroMaidan” protests in Kiev, and Ukraine's most prominent oligarch has finally voiced the unmentionable: the project has failed. “You all...

For the past 10 years, BRICS has navigated dramatic turns in global politics and the economy to emerge as an association of countries that is likely to play a key...

Highlighting how climate change hurts humans is now a key strand of the green ideology. In fact, humanity is thriving – and taking bad advice from a new environmental report...

So far, the efforts to impeach President Donald Trump have revealed far more about the corruption in US foreign policy and the Washington bureaucracy than any White House wrongdoing. Nevertheless,...

Launch of Disney+ was accompanied by an announcement that some of its movies would be shown edited to suit modern day censors. This is a cowardly, ineffective, and intellectually dishonest...

Recent developments indicate that Donald Trump's unilateralist and protectionist “America First” doctrine is pushing a trilateral nexus of China, South Korea and Japan to begin working closely together. When it...

The financial worries of French university students are so bad that one Lyon student set himself on fire in protest, calling out President Emmanuel Macron, the EU, and other politicians...

Russophobia has reared its head in the UK general election campaign, with ‘centrists' & ‘liberal-leftists' getting into a right old flap over the delayed release of a report into alleged...

A renowned journalism school's paper recently apologized for ‘traumatizing' students by posting photos of their participation in a public protest. Is protecting people from the consequences of their actions now...

From the claim of a ‘stolen' election to the opposition burning ballots and the forced resignation of President Evo Morales, the events in Bolivia have followed the script of the...

What's wrong with the American left? Suffering from Trump anxiety disorder, acting like cult members, and engaging in a new McCarthyism, the left has lost its collective mind. I saw...

Boris Johnson's pledge to end prosecutions of soldiers accused of unlawful killings during Northern Ireland's conflict not only denies justice for victims, it's a license for British forces in all...

The term 'conspiracy theory' has long been used to discredit anyone pointing out collusion between powerful people, but efforts to pathologize dissent as 'conspiracism' are doomed to collapse under the...

From Hollywood to Europe, the film industry is hopping on the environmentalist bandwagon by hiring “eco-producers,” dumping bottled water, recycling props and going vegan on-set. Saving the planet or virtue-signaling?...

Evo Morales, an indigenous leader who bucked the IMF and condemned US imperialism, has been pressured by the military to resign after winning an election. Yet Washington calls this blatant...

In recent conflicts in the Middle East, the heaviest battles have been for big cities. Still, in terms of warcraft, the issues surrounding the storming of urban areas and minimizing...

Polar bears have become the poster child for climate change, their population supposedly devastated by shrinking ice cover. But when one zoologist disproved the myth, she came under the inquisition...

The death of the White Helmets co-founder, British mercenary James Le Mesurier, instantly led to suggestions of Russian involvement from the BBC. They deleted the rumours from Twitter too late,...

Sitting atop the privilege pile, men rarely get awareness campaigns aimed directly at them. Movember is one of the few, yet now a brand of women's razors wants that for...

India doesn't believe it is reading too much in the designs of arch-rivals Pakistan in opening up its doors for Sikh pilgrims to visit the resting place of their founder,...

In June, whistleblower Zach Vorhies dumped internal Google documents exposing the company's shady practices and political agenda. Rather than investigate, US lawmakers are offering Big Tech political cover and a...

India and Pakistan are opening a cross-border corridor letting Sikhs to travel between two of their holiest shrines. The head of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee shared his thoughts...

Emmanuel Macron says that NATO is “brain dead” but the epithet perhaps applies to him. The French president has shocked allies by telling the Economist that NATO is in a...

The cottage industry of ‘experts' predicting the inevitable demise of Russia for years is ignoring the hard evidence of progress such as the infrastructure projects that the West is unable...

Germany celebrating 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall is seen as a moment of unity. Yet, lessons East Germany once had to offer were cast aside, a...

Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the symbols of the Cold War, Europe remains divided because it chose confrontation over a common future, Willy Wimmer,...

Scorsese's claim that Marvel movies are not ‘cinema' highlights the gap between the films people want and the ones the film industry, and culture at large, esteems. This gap reflects...

Scorsese's claim that Marvel movies are not ‘cinema' highlights the gap between the films people want and the ones the film industry, and culture at large, esteems. This gap reflects...

Almost daily for three years, Democrats and their media have told us very bad things about Donald Trump's life, character, and presidency. Some of them are true. But in the...

As the UK approaches Remembrance Sunday and the country prepares to commemorate the sacrifices of those who died in war, an aspect of the broader culture war has intruded. When...

A new report has confirmed what some analysts have been saying for some time: that Iran is winning the regional struggle for strategic influence. The 217-page report, published by the...

While the news landscape might be a noisy hybrid of information war and geopolitics, the dairy, seafood and meat industries are wanting to make a point about misinformation too. It...

The October climate protest cost the Met Police £24m, but the High Court now says the ban that ended the 10-day action was unlawful, opening the way for up to...

The brains of pedophiles are hardwired from the womb and nothing can change them, according to a study by a prominent doctor. Will this research serve to give child sex...