Campaigns challenging the country’s environmentally destructive, low-wage economic model are gaining ground, despite political insecurity.
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The EU needs to increase funding to help out the economically dislocated, or it will face more exits.
Young people have been pushed to the margins in South Korea -- can they transform the country's political system?
With secular autocrats and rigid Islamists equally discredited in the Arab world, the space is wide open for progressive democrats to save the Arab spring.
Events since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi have been ominous for democracy and for Egypt.
Poor Bulgaria. Once again the Germans are headed her way—this time armed with nothing more than a change of currency and the policies of austerity that go along with it.
Comparing Hugo Chavez's accomplishments to his U.S. obits was like taking a trip through Alice's looking glass.
Why is the Obama administration pressing Europeans to increase military spending? And what should it matter to Washington if Britain remains in the EU?
Some politicians and commentators have dismissed the recent British riots as pure criminality. But they ignore the politics at their own risk.
In occupied Iraq, the population living in urban slums has skyrocketed. Why haven't we heard more about this shocking statistic?