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Political and cultural conditions in a civilization
Society is supposed to be the realm within which citizens can practice their rights, artists can present their creations, scientists make their
The future of the sharing economy
Less than four years ago, the idea of opening up your home to a stranger on vacation was a fringe trend to
Restructuring the Chinese economy
Husband and wife entrepreneurs Yang Yang and Winnie are working on a prototype for a pen that writes in plastic. Unfortunately, the
Resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe
I survived the Holocaust in a sub-cellar in Tarnopol (Ternopil), a city now located in the Western Ukraine that once had a
Why Benjamin Barber and the Global Parliament of Mayors are wrong
At the end of September, the first planning session of the Global Parliament of Mayors took place in Amsterdam: a platform for
Mohamed ElBaradei’s vision for a peaceful world
It is irrelevant whether we fear change or welcome it. Change is inevitable and is the only constant. So the one option
Paris’ cultural heyday and decay
When George Gershwin wrote his classic symphonic poem _An American in Paris_ in 1928, the French capital was widely regarded as the
German-American gridlock over spying scandal
The spying scandal now galling Berlin reveals two things about one of the world's most important relationships: The American government has limited
ISIS and the return of terror in Iraq
It was only last year that I watched a group of Iraqi paragliders fly through the morning spring air, with their brightly
Why lobbying hinders European development
Three major structural problems are affecting Europe: The polarization of regional competitiveness, the inability to push towards a restructuring of the finance