American threatened by social turmoil
Human progress is not a given. Great achievement can be squandered if treated carelessly. Modern-day "progressives" like President Obama, who were "liberals" before they gave the word a bad odor, are...
View ArticleOut of Ashes by Konrad Jarausch: more ‘modernity’ than any reader can take
According to Konrad Jarausch, a doyen of German historians, the legend of Dr Faustus “anticipates the paradoxical trajectory of twentieth century Europe, where humanist ethics were discarded in the...
View ArticleRSC names three York U professors to The College of New Scholars, Artists and...
(Source: York University) The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has named three York University professors to The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Mark Jurdjevic, professor of history,...
View ArticleTop Officials Hail Milestones from Beijing to Paris on Path to Gender...
(Source: United Nations General Assembly) The new Sustainable Development Goals could not be achieved without full and equal rights for all women, top United Nations officials told the Third Committee...
View ArticleThe settlers gave this place the name Blacktown. Now should they take it away?
Voters in the Blacktown local government area in western Sydney are to be asked to choose a more ‘positive’ name. But many Indigenous people see it as a powerful link to their community’s history...
View ArticleUnderstanding the culture of the Clinton Era (Brookings Institution)
(Source: Brookings Institution) Writing about the Clintons as a real-time commentator during the 1990s and then again as an historian when writing my new book, The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s,...
View ArticleA Historic Event at the United Nations in Mental Health; UN Defines Mental...
Mental health advocates calling for people to sign petition and send emails in support of strong indicators to help ensure accountability and success. This past weekend the United Nations made a...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Culture of the Clinton Era
Writing about the Clintons as a real-time commentator during the 1990s and then again as an historian when writing my new book, The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s, was an interesting intellectual...
View ArticleThe President of the Republic receives the credentials of the Ambassador of...
(Source: Government of the Republic of Cyprus) The President of the Republic, Mr Nicos Anastasiades, received today, at a formal ceremony at the Presidential Palace, the credentials of the Ambassador...
View ArticleA toast by the President during the official dinner for the Belgian Royal...
(Source: President of the Republic of Poland) A toast by the President of the Republic of Poland Mr Andrzej Duda during the official visit paid by His Majesty the King of the Belgians and Her Majesty...
View ArticleUSI’s Berger Lecture to focus on social justice, Spanish Civil War...
(Source: University of Southern Indiana) Dr. Allison Guzman, assistant professor of Spanish at Providence College in Rhode Island, will present the University of Southern Indiana's College of Liberal...
View ArticleOn Building Armies (and Watching Them Fail)
Why Washington Can’t “Stand Up” Foreign Militaries By Andrew J. Bacevich October 13, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "TomDispatch" - First came Fallujah, then Mosul, and later Ramadi in Iraq. Now,...
View ArticleRemarks by President Obama and President Gauck of Germany before Bilateral...
(Source: President of the United States) Oval Office 11:15 A.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, it is a great honor to have a great friend of the United States, President Gauck, visit the Oval Office. It...
View ArticleDe Blasio’s plan to socially engineer cultural groups
President Obama liked the show “Hamilton” so much that he’s coming back again and bringing a lot of his friends. Earlier this week, the DNC announced that it was paying the show’s producers to put on...
View ArticleThe secret to forgiving yourself
Trust this mistake experience happened because it could teach you something. See if you can name 10 positives that making the mistake has created in your life. This will help you see it as your perfect...
View ArticleIndia's cultural greatness-past and present
Education is a subset of culture. So, it is to be expected that cultural issues will be addressed by academicians. But culture is not written in stone. It is being made and remade continually, like the...
View ArticleObama celebrates American music with 'eclectic bunch'
Bopping his head to the beat and swaying to a blues version of "America the Beautiful," President Barack Obama on Wednesday night celebrated what he called one of the country's most precious gifts:...
View ArticleObamas Celebrate American Music at White House
Associated Press WASHINGTON— Bopping his head to the beat and swaying to a blues version of America the Beautiful, President Barack Obama on Wednesday night celebrated what he called one of the...
View ArticleBuilding Armies and Watching Them Fail
First came Fallujah, then Mosul, and later Ramadi in Iraq. Now, there is Kunduz, a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan. In all four places, the same story has played out: in cities that...
View ArticlePresident Obama turns books journalist in Marilynne Robinson interview
In a lengthy piece for the New York Review of Books, the president talked about the moral roots of the Gilead author’s work...
View ArticleA week in politics tells us a lot, but the year to the election will tell us...
EDITORIAL The end of its first working week is too soon to say whether the government led by Malcolm Turnbull will meet the ambitious "new Liberal" label some would pin on it. The Herald isn't asking...
View ArticleModern Hunter-Gatherers Probably Get Less Sleep Than You Do
Although it might seem that the glowing lights from smartphones and other trappings of modern life reduce people's ability to get a decent amount of shut-eye, scientists now suggest that people do not...
View ArticleContemplating Post-Harper Healing in Canada
Stephen Harper, the most anti-democratic prime minister in our history, may have done democracy a favour by mandating the longest election in Canadian history. One-month elections only exposed our...
View Article“Jamaican Heritage: Impacting the World” 2015 NATIONAL HEROES DAY MESSAGE BY...
(Source: Office of the Prime Minister of Jamaica) “Jamaican Heritage: Impacting the World” NATIONAL HEROES DAY MESSAGE BY THE MOST HON. PORTIA SIMPSON MILLER, ON, MP PRIME MINISTER '...
View Article‘To be Jamaican is now one of the most powerful identities worldwide’
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller, in her message to mark National Heroes Day today, says that Jamaican youth and children, "in whose hands rest our future and the great legacy of our amazing...
View ArticleNo, Carly Fiorina, a degree in medieval history doesn't qualify you to fight...
Carly Fiorina received a BA from Stanford in medieval history and philosophy almost 40 years ago, but she’s always ready to revisit her undergraduate glory days. Last Sunday, the Republican...
View ArticleObama, nearly a statesman
A word that we hear less and less today is ‘statesmanship’. Statesmanship is after all the quality of a politician who could utilise the legitimacy accorded by the state and his/her charisma to achieve...
View ArticleGeneral Assembly Urged to Assume ‘Rightful Place at Centre of Deliberations’...
(Source: UN - United Nations) The myriad peace and security challenges facing the world, the United Nations ability to address them, and the link between security and the new Sustainable Development...
View Articlea Thoughtful Approach to Communicating in the Workplace
"In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange." -Brennan Manning How many words do you speak in a day? More importantly, are you aware of their great impact on...
View ArticleFrom mystics to Marxists: Karbala in South Asian culture
There is history and then there is the memory of history. While history is preserved in annals, its memory comes down to generations through the interplay of culture, traditions and oral accounts....
View ArticleShinzo Abe must rethink his stance if there is to be an improvement in...
China and Japan recognise the need for a warming of their icy relationship and are making efforts to ease tensions. A summit between President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would...
View ArticleScenes From a Wonderful Parade Against the TPP
Berlin. It was a day to remember, a date for the record books! It marked a surprising development in German politics! And who said Germans don’t like protest marches or demonstrations? The organizers...
View ArticleMake America Good Again
“Make America Great Again” is the slogan for Donald Trump’s phenomenally popular presidential campaign. With it, Trump has tapped a deep well of frustration among American conservatives about the...
View ArticleIndividual members to elect a new steering committee (ELDR - European...
(Source: ELDR - European Liberal, Democratic and Reform Party) Since it was established nearly two years, the steering committee of individual members has made individual membership grow in size and...
View ArticleOn Political Revolution and the Meaning of a Sanders Presidency
As grassroots enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders's campaign continues to grow, many -- including progressives -- have expressed doubts about his ability, if elected, to achieve even a fraction of his...
View ArticleWe shouldn't trust orators, visionaries and dreamers to lead us
If there’s one thing we could say for sure about Tony Abbott’s replacement by Malcolm Turnbull, it is that we’ve gained an orator, and lost a prime minister whose inability to make anything like a...
View ArticleDick Cheney's Pax Americana
This story originally appeared on The Washington Spectator. Exceptional, the new book from former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, is not. It is nothing more than an unhinged rant that...
View ArticleWhat Does Bernie Want?
Last week’s Democratic “debate” was – surprise! surprise! — a multi-candidate infomercial. It was also a game changer because Hillary Clinton “won.” The pundits said so, just as soon as the candidates...
View ArticleRise Up to End Police Terror
Ferguson protester. Photo: AP. The Americanism that voting is the legitimate means to legitimate political ends assumes a starting point that never existed and an end point that somehow never arrives....
View ArticleCalifornia Bans “Redskins,” Is Columbus Next?
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling As long as the perpetrators’ domination is allowed to last, their cruelties will continue to refashion the victims’ world. Therefore, California Gov....
View ArticleReflections on courtship and opposite sex friendship
Last week on his radio program, Radical, Pastor David Platt discussed the topic of what is and isn’t appropriate behavior for men and women prior to marriage. Platt said that pastors tend to fall into...
View ArticleBarack Obama celebrates American music with 'eclectic bunch'
Washington: Swaying to jazz and blues tunes while bopping his head to the beat, President Barack Obama on Wednesday night celebrated what he called one of the country's most precious gifts: "American...
View ArticleIn search of the self
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, like her protagonist Draupadi, in the Palace of Illusions appears to be “buoyant and expansive and uncontainable”. The acclaimed author of 16 novels, which include The...
View ArticleHow can countries measure social wellbeing? - First national conference on...
Today marked the first national conference for social wellbeing, where experts in the field gave insight as to factors affecting a person's wellbeing, as well as raised questions regarding how this...
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