United-states

As the world looks back at the events of 11 September 2001 and their influence on the decade that followed, Mark Engler argues that patriotism does not equate to revenge.…

Sokari Ekine looks at the founding of Liberia and the context it might provide to the country's two civil wars.…

The US has a legal duty to protect Iranian dissidents under attack, says Moussa Zabeti, who has eight family members living there.…

‘And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor,And the subsequent proceedings, interested him no more.’(Francis Brett Harte, 1836-1902)Felicity Arbuthnot considers the evidence.…

Southeast Asia’s ‘war on drugs’ is about managing profitable criminal enterprises, not closing them down.…

We allow animal species, languages and customs die out at our peril.…

Comedian Dean Obeidallah aims to build bridges between the Jewish and Arab communities in the US through laughter…

Malalai Joya was one of the first women to be elected to Afghanistan’s parliament…

The US National Debt Clock – a fixture at New York’s Times Square for over twenty years – has recently run out of numbers to display the correct level of national debt which now exceeds a mind-boggling $10 trillion.…

Why should we listen to the 'economic experts' and policymakers who got us into this mess in the first place? Let's listen instead to people who saw the crash coming.…