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Scarcity and the threat of another ‘final solution’
Russia’s botched war of neo-colonial conquest in Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin’s mendacious justifications for it, bear the closest resemblance in our age to Hitler’s campaign for…
War talk is not cheap, the play ‘Ruined’ shows
Plot shows how women characters refuse to be victims in a conflict situation
Inside the illicit trade in West Africa’s oldest artworks
Nok terracottas are proof that an ancient civilisation once existed in Nigeria. Now they are at the centre of a multimillion-dollar, globe-spanning underground industry — and…
Laundering Isabel dos Santos
“African corruption” is only African as regards its victims. Its perpetrators are institutions and individuals from across the globe who are willing to loot without conscience as…
Coleman steps down from Goldman Sachs
The ‘capitalist comrade’ has been with the international banking firm since 2000
Yale expels student implicated in admissions scam
Yale University becomes the first American institution to expel a student implicated in the admissions scandal which emerged earlier this month
Yale opens up to the world
One of America’s top universities is making a difference with online courses that — it hopes — will transform global education.
A neocon by any other name
Robert Kagan, author, essayist, former diplomat, pre-eminent thinker of what is called ”neoconservatism” — and now foreign policy adviser to Republican presidential nominee John…
Student’s artwork purports to show abortions
Yale University says it will not install an art project by a student who claims to have filmed herself inducing repeated abortions unless she includes a disclaimer saying it is a…
Workers slowly uncover rare mummified dinosaur
Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big, greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota’s state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a…
Marry your like, says the Bible
I am a proponent of same-sex marriages and as a Christian minister of religion, I want to make it very clear that the Bible nowhere gives an indication that such marriages should…
Global whistle-blowing website shut down
A secretive Swiss bank landed an apparently novel censorship blow against the internet this week. Anyone who tried to call up Wikileaks.org, a global website devoted to…
Clinton and Obama neck and neck
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spent the final, tension-filled hours before Tuesday’s Super Tuesday primaries squeezing out votes in the East Coast battlefield states where…
Spirit of Che Guevara follows Argentina
Had things turned out differently, one of the seats in the press box in the Stade de France last Sunday night might have been occupied by a 79-year-old Argentinian newspaperman…