Editorial – The Guardian Governments will need to spend big to protect vulnerable people this winter Europe is sweltering during a prolonged summer heatwave. But the attention of political leaders is increasingly focused on the coming winter.
By Wesam Besindawa* – Newsweek In a square meter grave-like cell waits Fateh, a Houthi prisoner. She has been deprived of food and drink for hours.
by Jennifer Zacharia* – Boston Review Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist During the summer of 1998, my cousin Shireen’s alarm would wake us both at 6 a.m. every morning. She shared her room…
By Andrea Tornielli – Vatican News French economist Gaël Giraud, SJ, comments on Pope Francis’ appeal on Sunday, 3 July, in which he called for de-escalation over Ukraine, in order “to avoid disastrous outcomes which could lead to a new world conflict,” noting that “it is…
By Tamas Ibolya* – EUobserver The Hungarian parliament is about to adopt a new law that will transfer the ownership of three central public squares in Budapest from the municipality — to the state. In return, the state is handing over asset-management rights to the respective…
By Murad Qureshi* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute The West seems more fixated on spending social wealth on the military rather than addressing the climate catastrophe. During late April and early May, South Asia experienced the terrible impacts of global…
By Ben Rhodes* – The Atlantic A presidential visit to Saudi Arabia feels sadly inevitable About the author: Ben Rhodes is the author of After the Fall: Being American in the World We Made. He is a former speechwriter and deputy national security adviser to Barack Obama.
The National Interest Viewpoint of Mushahid Hussain, Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan’s Defence Committee Five fundamentals are pointers to the United States embarking on an unwinnable Sisyphean quest that will end up hurting its interests more than stopping China’s rise in…
Kathleen Belew, David Hogg, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (*) – Boston Review The strategy of “leadership resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing. But their desperation to prevent a public reckoning with the country’s racist…
By Pedro Marques, Paul Tang and Aurore Lalucq (*) – POLITICO Unanimity in tax policy is detrimental to the principles that are supposed to underpin Europe’s social model Following a global agreement on a minimum tax for multinational corporations, the deal’s European…
