Analysis & Opinion

Austria’s new chancellor wants his German counterpart to judge his government “on its deeds” and not on his far-right coalition partner. While both sides stress their closeness, it’s hard to ignore what divides them. Ahead of...

Feminism in France is as old as the revolution. It’s just not feminism as many of us know it. The anti-#MeToo letter signed by French national treasure Catherine Deneuve and 100 other well-known women has sparked an international...

Oprah Winfrey for president? That was the burning question in American politics on Monday after the entertainment celebrity and entrepreneur delivered a barnstorming speech that had many hailing her as the antidote to Donald Trump. Speaking...

It seems January is Gwyneth Paltrow’s go-to month for promoting potentially dangerous things that should not go in or near an orifice. January 2015 brought us vagina steaming, January 2017 was jade eggs, and here we are in...

No one would ever claim that 2017 was a slow news year. In fact, so much happened that events that seemed like a big deal at the time have already faded from our memories, crowded out...

Written by Mariya Cheresheva Maria Dimitrova, an editor-in-chief of Zovnews, a local newspaper in Vratza, northwest of Bulgaria, was attending a family gathering at the end of October when she started receiving threats over the phone and on Facebook....

Written by Rafael Behr It called to mind Bill Clinton’s sublimely evasive remark when questioned about the veracity of statements he had made about the nature of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. “It depends upon what the meaning of...

The United Nations is soon to decide whether to give Neapolitan pizza makers World heritage status. It’s one of the candidates to join the list of intangible heritage created by UNESCO, but we’re not talking about...

Latest figures show new car sales in the UK heading for first yearly drop since 2011   New figures reveal car sales in Britain have now fallen five percent so far this year, on track for...

So to the legions of experts required to make any sense of Northern Ireland we may now need to add lexicographers or semioticians. Where does the line, the border as it were, blur between regulatory “non-divergence” and “convergence”...