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President Barack Obama is a stronger president overseas today than he was yesterday. His victory on health care reform is very good for American national security.
It is astonishing that forced marriage is still prevalent in some, mainly tribal, cultures in the name of religion. Sadly that includes some Muslim cultures as well. But mainstream Muslims have been outspoken against forced marriage.
The Grand Mosque in the West Bank was burned and vandalized on June 19. This act of hatred, this desecration of a sacred space, is beyond the pale. This is not how Jews are meant to act. Not toward anyone. Not ever.
A "xenophobic" ad campaign in Egypt caught my eye during this past week of presidential election drama. Last night, however, I was transfixed as I read a British journalist named Natasha Smith's account of being sexually assaulted in Tahrir.
The right question to ask isn't whether all options are on the table with Iran -- because clearly they are -- but which is the most likely to achieve the right outcome with the least danger of making the region and the world even more dangerous.
I write about the hatred of LGBT people in Eastern Europe by religious and governmental authorities. I write about Jamaica where hating gays is a popular topic for music lyrics and where murders are escalating. Pride and persecution are both real. We rejoice in the good and confront the evil.
Who can be stoic, if not a journalist? You would think in Afghanistan people would be used to it. Another attack. Another body. No, this is not something anybody gets used to.
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the start of world's first global court to prosecute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity -- widespread and systematic atrocities -- wherever they occur around the world.
The seduction of drones' short-term impacts loses its appeal alongside the significant long-term strategic and moral costs of this tactic.
I firmly believe a new generation of pragmatic and committed leaders was hard at work at the conference in Rio. Our job now is to identify who these leaders are and how to work with them to ensure they succeed.
The responsibility lies with the U.S. government to ensure that these workers -- who provide valuable services to our troops and embassies -- are not trafficked, forced into indentured servitude, or otherwise exploited on the taxpayer's dime.
Two dissenting Iranian religious figures -- an imprisoned cleric and an exiled spiritual Sufi -- have issued messages to the world condemning the Iranian theocratic authorities and calling on all religious believers to assist Iranians against the governing hierarchy.
Israel's fateful hour is approaching. The chances of Israel existing by mid-century are no more than twenty percent if its governments continue to pursue the settlement project.
Victim is one of the two roles we allow our soldiers and veterans (the other is, of course, hero), but most don't have PTSD, and this isn't one of those stories.
For the first time ever, a woman could win Mexico's presidential election. Recently Vázquez Mota added an unexpected twist to the campaign by asking her female followers to withhold "hanky panky" until their husbands agree to vote.
Let's face it. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio 20) was a flop -- at least the part that involved negotiations amongst governments.
The crisis in the Sahel has gone on for far too long, with far too little coverage from media around the world. This means that women and their families have been suffering silently while the situation continues to worsen.
Yesterday Oxfam and Amnesty drove a tank around central London, startling passers-by and even getting stopped by the police for a documentation check.
In the U.K. and the rest of Europe, when it comes to the environment, judges often don't know the law. And they can be wilful in remaining ignorant.
Otaviano Canuto, 2012.29.06
Kenneth Jeyaretnam, 2012.29.06
Matt Kohn, 2012.29.06
