The Kennedys, the Democrats, and Obama, Godfrey Hodgson
Ted Kennedy lived hard. It was the family way.
The first time I met him, on a boat trip along the coast in Florida at Easter 1962, just before he was manoeuvred into the Senate by family clout, arguably before he had reached the...
Pskov: the Paratroopers’ Town, Anna Lipina
One summer evening recently I was approached by some tourists in the centre of Pskov to ask where they could find the nearest supermarket. I was taken aback: the Pskov Kremlin, the Trinity Cathedral, the streets of old Pskov, the...
Afghanistan: point of decision , Paul Rogers
The world media's attention on Afghanistan in the past week has, most unusually, been focused on the country's domestic politics rather than its internal-security situation. The questionable process and equally uncertain outcome of the...
The judicial system in Mexico (part 1), Nancy J. Blake Kathleen Blake Bohne
Sponsored by the AVINA Foundation
The words “judicial reform” imply change; a system that has been struggling will be transformed into something new and improved. This sounds simple enough, unless of course one is talking about Mexico, where...
The world after glaciers, Øyvind Paasche
The natural rhythm that has characterised climate on Earth during the last 3 million years is broken. It has taken humans less than 200 years to accomplish this. The industrial extraction and burning of fossil-fuels have fed the atmosphere and...
Israeli settlements and “ethnic cleansing” , Martin Shaw
An intense political engagement over the question of West Bank settlements is continuing between the Barack Obama administration in the United States and the government of Binyamin Netanyahu in Israel. A failure to resolve the issue would be fatal...
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