Interview by Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Christoph Scheuermann Andrew Testa / DER SPIEGEL Turkish author Elif Shafak is concerned about polarization in her country: “Erdogan is, in my eyes, the most polarizing politician in recent Turkish political history.” Turkish author Elif Shafak sees her country as a “wobbly democracy,” increasingly […]
Source: New York Times By Sara Lipton DO harsh words lead to violent acts? At a moment when hate speech seems to be proliferating, it’s a question worth asking. Attorney […]
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Federal Court rejects school headscarf ban DEC 11, 2015 – 15:33 School authorities appealed a cantonal administrative court decision that gave the green light to wear the headscarves. […]
SOUTH AMERICA’S DEMOCRACIES ‘The perfect system does not exist’ By Claudinê Gonçalves DEC 11, 2015 – 15:00 In Appenzell, a rural region of eastern Switzerland, decisions are still taken by the annual open air assembly – a landmark of Swiss direct democracy (Keystone) The Swiss system of direct democracy is […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be […]
Source: The Washington Post By Fareed Zakaria Writes a foreign affairs column for The Post. He is also the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and a contributing editor for […]
Source: CNN (CNN)A British soldier who had his leg blown off by a bomb while serving in Iraq has taken the internet by storm after his Facebook post attacking Islamophobia […]
Source: Religion News Service By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Writes about faith and public policy. From 2011 to 2015, he worked at the National Immigration Forum mobilizing Christians to advocate for the […]
Source: The Express Tribune LAHORE: The district administration in Lahore on Thursday removed anti-Ahmadi posters and stickers from the city’s largest mobile and computer equipment market. Numerous shopkeepers in Lahore’s Hafeez Centre, […]
Source: BBC One of China’s richest men, Guo Guangchang, has been detained by police. His company, Fosun International, confirmed on Friday that he was assisting authorities with an investigation. The […]
Source: BBC Across the forests and prairies of Asia, and vast savannahs of Africa, live secret societies of architects. They are masters of construction, their sophisticated and innovative green-energy designs […]
Source: NPR Evangelical leaders are speaking out against Donald Trump’s controversial call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Russell Moore, president of the Southern […]
Source: Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic stunned a courtroom Wednesday when he declared himself a […]
Source: Los Angeles Times The year was 1915, and the strange new newspaper in Aurora, Mo., had grown so quickly in its first four years that rail officials had to […]
Source: The Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor Writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. He previously was a senior editor at TIME, based first in Hong Kong and later in New York. It has become a sort of mantra in the U.S. election cycle. When faced with questions of national […]
By Kashif N. Chaudhry; Physician, writer and human rights activist Source: Huffington Post I am a Pakistani immigrant to the United States. With the recent rise of Islamophobia here in […]
Source: Washington Post By Elahe Izadi Muslims are at the center of today’s roiling debate over religious freedom in the United States. But they’ve actually been a part of that […]
Reuters International DEC 11, 2015 – 13:48 By Emmanuel Jarry and David Stanway PARIS (Reuters) – Efforts to craft a global accord to combat climate change stumbled on Friday with China and many other nations refusing to yield ground, forcing host France to extend the U.N. summit by a day […]
By Anand Chandrasekhar with input from Pradyot Debbaraman, The Northeast Today DEC 10, 2015 – The watch was purchased at an auction and is now in the Jaeger-LeCoultre museum (Jaeger-LeCoultre) […]
Dec 10,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Dani Rodrik In mid-December, the United Nations will launch the latest of its annual landmark Human Development Reports. This year’s report focuses on the nature of work: how the way we earn a living is being transformed by economic globalisation, new technologies and innovations in […]