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The Turkification of Poland: Kaczynski Vs. Duda
By Stephan RichterWhy is Kaczynski, a staunch Catholic, leading his rightfully proud nation toward its own Turkification?For any man of Jaroslav Kaczynski’s convictions, it must be considered a grave...
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Brothers in Power: Trump and Netanyahu
By Frank VoglThe Binyamin and Donald show threatens to undermine, perhaps irredeemably, the institutions of democracy in Israel and the United States.The world has many countries with long histories of...
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Balkans Vs. Journalists
By Alon Ben-MeirTruthful reporting in the Balkans is life-threatening.Kosovo investigative journalist Parim Olluri knew the assailants who physically attacked him two years ago in front of his house,...
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In praise of ambivalence: Lessons from living between worlds
By Sarah KaracsThe world is complex. In trying to make sense of it, let’s not resort to divisive cliches. After my grandmother passed away last year, I typed her name into my Google search box. I...
View ArticleExxon’s Pegasus Oil Spill — and the Myth of U.S. “Energy Independence”
A strange thing happened over Easter. On March 29, 2013, an oil pipeline operated by ExxonMobil ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of heavy oil across...
View ArticlePress Freedom in the G-20
It is well-known that journalists are restricted in what they can write and report in Saudi Arabia and in China. We wonder: Other than these two nations, which of the G-20 countries performs worst when...
View ArticleJust the Facts: Social Media, Back to the Future
1. The era of top-down mass media will turn out to have been an exception to this rule. 2. The historic rule is that social media are the ways in which people get and share information. 3. The mass...
View ArticleWomen’s Rights Are Human Rights
While women perform 66% of the world’s work and produce 50% of the food, they earn just 10% of incomes and own 1% of the property globally. And out of 197 countries, only 22 of them have women...
View ArticleLiberalism in the Arab World?
Egypt’s selection of a new strong man, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who will take over the presidency after a strained effort to mobilize unenthusiastic voters and who — if one looks at his rhetoric — seems...
View ArticleAnti-Corruption Fight in China: How India Undermines Progress
It is not just Westerners, but also smart Chinese thinkers and leaders who acknowledge that, in order to combat corruption, a whole package of measures is needed. Criminal trials are only the first...
View ArticleThe West Against the Rest
Imagine a bomb going off in a European or U.S. city — and a pregnant mother being killed by the blast. The West Against the Rest ▪ Part I: A Short History of the West’s Geopolitical Dominance ▪ Part...
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The Achilles Heel of the West
“The Open Society and Its Enemies,” Karl Popper once titled his book, written in his New Zealand exile during the totalitarian horror of Nazi Europe. Strangely and sadly, that topic is as relevant and...
View ArticleThe Night Ben Bradlee Came to See Me in the Emergency Room
It seems that everyone who worked in the newsroom at The Washington Post when Ben Bradlee was executive editor has a story to tell about a man who really was larger than life. A Boston Brahmin with...
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The Human Side of North Korea
Since he was young, faraway countries and travelling have fascinated Eric Lafforgue. He took up photography in 2006. His work on North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Ethiopia and other countries has appeared...
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The Myth of Asia: The Absence of an Asian Intellectual Space
There is no such thing as common Asian values, a uniform Asian paradigm or a collective Asian dynamic. The space that covers Asia is far too diverse to allow for generalization. Read first part of this...
View ArticleThe News Beyond the Camera
The daily news is a greedy monster that must be fed. I learned that long ago when I stumbled, accident upon accident, into journalism. I like to write, like to learn, like to look, sometimes even like...
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Migration Crisis: How to Break the Cycle of Death and Amnesia
Waiting for a European solution to this colossal humanitarian crisis is irresponsible and immoral. Proximity to the primary conflict zone in the world made Europe the preferred destination for those...
View ArticleMuslim-American Immigrants
1. At some 2.8 million people, the share of Muslims in the total population of the United States is just under 1%. 2. Nearly four in 10 Muslim Americans are U.S.-born. 3. Over 60% of today’s Muslim...
View ArticleCensuring Trump in the Age of Disinformation
Let’s stop beating around the bush: President Trump’s behavior threatens U.S. national security, and directly serves the interests of adversaries such as Russia and China. While the investigation of...
View ArticleThe Tourist Conquest of Space
On July 20, the anniversary of the moon landing, Jeff Bezos is setting off on his very own quick trip into space, eight days after Richard Branson and a few months before Elon Musk. This band of...
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