Here’s how the U.S. can leverage its wealth, safety, and diplomacy to serve the refugees it helped to create.
These Four Elections Could Decide the Future of Europe
In upcoming votes for the EU’s most indebted countries, the left will have to battle both the forces of austerity and a resurgent xenophobic right.
Where’s There’s War, There’s Refugees
War inevitably spawns refugees.
Drug Abuse in Poland Part of the Social Fabric
As with most Western countries, in Poland drug abuse has spread from criminals and the impoverished to all levels of society.
The U.S. Is Betraying the Kurds — Again
Turkey’s offering Washington a fig leaf of cooperation against the Islamic State, but it’s turning all its firepower against the most effective anti-ISIS fighters in the region — the Kurds.
The Middle Passage
For the refugees pouring into Europe, their journeys can be just as deadly as the war zones they’re fleeing.
The Remarkable Saga of the Pankow Peace Group in East Germany
It was one thing to establish a peace group in Poland or Hungary during the Communist era, another entirely in East Germany.
How Austerity Economics Is Fraying Europe’s Social Contract
It’s a new kind of barbarism, one that sacks countries with fine print.
Pope Francis Blesses Environment, McKibben Gives Pope His Blessing
Laudato Si’, the papal encyclical letter written by Pope Francis, is helping to move global warming to the forefront of the world’s consciousness.
East-Central Europe’s Moral Revolution
To Vaclav Havel, government wasn’t about a well-oiled economy or keeping the streets safe and clean, but whether the system allowed people to live with integrity.