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North America

I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA

By Alex Hern - 30 Aug 2012

The President enters the source of memes, and comes out unscathed...

2 comments
Paul Ryan's convention speech heralds a post-factual age

By Alex Hern - 30 Aug 2012

Time and again, Ryan mislead, misspoke, and made Demonstrably...

8 comments
The political impossibility of the Ryan-Romney budget

By Andrew Polsky - 29 Aug 2012

You are better off believing in the tooth fairy than the...

1 comments
CNN tries to bury RNC racism

By Alex Hern - 29 Aug 2012

News network confirms the abuse of a camerawoman at the...

10 comments
Word Games: Ryanomics

By Sophie Elmhirst - 23 Aug 2012
Mitt Romney to Todd Akin: "Exit the Senate race."

By New Statesman - 22 Aug 2012

Quote of the day.

7 comments

Global issues

The battle to tackle drug addiction is not lost

By Paul Hayes - 16 Aug 2012

The debate about legalisation is a distraction.

6 comments
Chart of the day: Visit Britain

By Alex Hern - 01 Aug 2012

The top ten countries visiting Britain last year.

1 comments
Blair, Olympic deals and why another world is possible

By John Pilger - 18 Jul 2012

The criminality of Tony Blair, rehabilitated by Ed Miliband,...

34 comments
Kevin Rudd: The west isn’t ready for the rise of China

By Kevin Rudd - 11 Jul 2012

Distracted by economic crisis, social unrest and slipping...

31 comments
Family planning is a matter of social justice

By Helen Clark - 11 Jul 2012

Leaders have the opportunity to unleash women's full potential....

17 comments
Age of extremes: Mehdi Hasan and Maajid Nawaz debate

By Maajid Nawaz an... - 04 Jul 2012

What's to blame for persistent Muslim extremism - the violent...

97 comments

South America

Will the Ecuadorian embassy be stormed?

By David Allen Green - 16 Aug 2012

Litigation, and not broken glass, is the more likely consequence...

77 comments
Crises and radical thinking on drug policy

By Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch - 16 Aug 2012

Reform has always been a “two-steps forward, one-step back”...

10 comments
Amanda Feilding: "Tobacco kills 100,000 a year - cannabis a handful throughout history"

By Helen Lewis - 08 Aug 2012

The campaigner on what's wrong with our drug laws - and how magic...

119 comments
Mexico's drug war: the battle without hope

By Malcolm Beith - 08 Aug 2012

Beheadings, torture, shootings uploaded to YouTube – the “war on...

9 comments
Cruising at altitude, edgy Rio and Bowie’s London boys

By Dylan Jones - 25 Jul 2012

GQ's Dylan Jones gets out and about.
The real reason Julian Assange sought asylum

By Ryan Gallagher - 20 Jun 2012

The WikiLeaks chief fears he could face the death penalty in the...

53 comments

Middle East

"Rachel Corrie died trying to protect her friends"

By New Statesman - 28 Aug 2012

Tom Dale, who witnessed Corrie's death, reacts to the verdict...

1 comments
Syria: Cutting out the Middle Man

By Tam Hussein - 25 Aug 2012

What hope for democracy after Assad?

4 comments
A tense autumn to come in the Middle East

By Ian Lucas - 23 Aug 2012

The international community must do everything possible to...

11 comments
Chaos in Cairo, packing a flak jacket and life without caffeine

By Jeremy Bowen - 16 Aug 2012

The BBC's Middle East editor on his return to Egypt's capital....
Sinai: A war zone in waiting

By Max Strasser - 15 Aug 2012

Developments in Egypt since the revolution began have moved at a...
The refugees trying to get into Syria

By Ruth Michaelson - 15 Aug 2012

The Syrian refugees who are fighting to return to their country...

Australasia

Tobacco ban for people born after the year 2000 passes Tasmanian upper house

By Alex Hern - 27 Aug 2012

Dangerous restriction on liberty, or "unslippery slippery dip"?...

7 comments
John Pilger: How the Chosen Ones ended Australia’s sporting prowess and revealed its secret past

By John Pilger - 08 Aug 2012

Australia’s sports administration and Olympian “stars”, from Nick...

42 comments
Misaligned incentives in the Australian immigration system, or: moving to jail

By Alex Hern - 23 Jul 2012

Mandatory sentencing isn't so scary if you would quite like jail...

10 comments
Australian wine wants to be more Kylie than Jason

By Nina Caplan - 20 Jun 2012

The talent is there, if only we could get our hands on a bottle...

5 comments
When Mr Cameron went to Jakarta

By Purwadi Soeprihanto - 30 Apr 2012

What the outcome of Cameron's Indonesian tour means for...

1 comments
Up, up and away — how money power works Down Under

By John Pilger - 22 Mar 2012

Qantas, the oldest continuously operating airline, was also the...

10 comments

Asia

Is feminism in Russia a mortal sin?

By Valeria Costa-Kostritsky - 16 Aug 2012

The trial of Pussy Riot is encouraging Russians to talk openly...

9 comments
Niall Ferguson's ignorant defence of British rule in India

By Paul Cotterill - 16 Aug 2012

Oddly for a historian, Ferguson doesn't appear to have taken much...

31 comments
Pussy Riot's protests threaten more than just the Putin regime

By Nelson Jones - 31 Jul 2012

The treatment of Pussy Riot says much about the close...

32 comments
Propaganda in Hong Kong: "If there are problems with the brain, then it needs to be washed"

By Alex Hern - 30 Jul 2012

Efforts by Beijing to brainwash Hong Kong children spark protests...
Cruising at altitude, edgy Rio and Bowie’s London boys

By Dylan Jones - 25 Jul 2012

GQ's Dylan Jones gets out and about.
Parminder Nagra: “Los Angeles oozing Indian culture? No way”

By Alice Gribbin - 18 Jul 2012

The actress talks to Alice Gribbin about ER, East London and...

Europe

What can Iceland teach us about a wealth tax?

By Margarida Madaleno - 29 Aug 2012

The country instituted an emergency tax for three years to sort...

1 comments
Time-banking offers hope to the dispossessed youth of Europe

By Margarida Madaleno - 29 Aug 2012

Everyone has something to offer if you treat their time as the...
European impasse

By Margarida Madaleno - 24 Aug 2012

The EU should channel its funds towards more productive ends
The grotesque manipulations of Anders Breivik

By Åsne Seierstad - 23 Aug 2012

Åsne Seierstad questions a system that gives Anders Breivik...

37 comments
What Pussy Riot taught the world

By E V Crowe - 23 Aug 2012

The Royal Court's EV Crowe on the Russian punk band.

7 comments
Greek government pushed into deeper cuts

By Margarida Madaleno - 22 Aug 2012

The country is attempting to get a further loan of €30bn.

2 comments

Africa

Desmond Tutu refuses to share a platform with Tony Blair

By Caroline Crampton - 28 Aug 2012

The Archbishop withdraws from event, citing Blair's support for...

53 comments
History repeats itself in Somalia

By Dr Roland Marchal - 20 Aug 2012

From a tragedy to a bloody farce.
Behind the Marikana massacre

By Martin Plaut - 20 Aug 2012

South Africa is not a country at peace with its people.

10 comments
Will the Tunisian constitution erode the gains of women in the Arab Spring?

By Heather McRobie - 15 Aug 2012

The dignity of gender equality could have a hard time penetrating...

3 comments
Female genital mutilation: what the UK can learn from overseas

By Marie Staunton - 25 Jul 2012

We would do well to learn from the openness, engagement and...

8 comments
Pity the financiers in the heart of darkness

By Nick Dearden - 23 Jul 2012

It's the people of Africa who are being ripped off.

1 comments

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