Turkey has become too diverse demographically, too big economically and too complicated politically for one person to shape in his own image.

In calling snap elections for the UK on June 8, the British Prime Minister may have entered into a game of Russian Roulette.

Trump’s White House resembles rowdy free play in the schoolyard under a substitute teacher. The world is at risk.

Pope Francis is shining a spotlight on complex battles for the soul of Islam as well as the survival of autocracy in the Middle East and North Africa.

The issue of the intense connection between corruption and violence fails to secure the attention it deserves.

Fake facts, presented under the cover of academic neutrality, become a 2017 election topic in Germany.

The United States needs to put monstrous and mostly self-serving financial institutions in proper check.

The United States and China both cozying up to Saudi Arabia (and irritating Iran) could mean global trouble.

How the U.S. government constantly cozies up to Saudi Arabia.

Will the “cathedral” – aka the EU – ever be completed? Is it worth the effort? Or might it fall down and bankrupt its builders?