It was already clear that we are very likely to break through all the “do not exceed” limits and go into runaway warming later this century.
Unless you just want a list of events, a year-end piece should try to identify where the flow of events is really taking us.
He was not a saint; he was just a man. But he was the right man at the right time.
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych had much explaining to do at the summit meeting of the European Union in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Obama needs more time to work on Congress. But Israel may still win this tug-of-war.
Politicians and government officials rarely tell outright lies; the cost of being caught out in a lie is too high.
The AU’s modest proposal has been greeted with an outcry all over the continent.
Two governments did bold, brave things last week. One of them quit and called a new election even though it had a viable majority.
It’s not a question of whether “Mutti” (Mom) will still be in power after the German election this Sunday.
The psychodrama in Washington grows ever more bizarre.
Egypt and Turkey have the same basic political problem.
President Barack Obama has been trapped by his own promise to arm Syrian rebels
There are not all that many 3D printers in circulation yet, but in five or 10 years they may be as common as mobile phones.
There are close to 200 independent countries in the world, and only one in a hundred is currently at war
After a spectacularly unsuccessful term as Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe has adopted a different approach in his second try
No Western government — nor any Arab government, either — is willing to put soldiers on the ground in Syria
U.S. Department of Justice calls homemade bomb used at Boston Marathon a weapon of mass destruction
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
Margaret Thatcher the first to realize it was possible to win elections on a platform that simply ignored the wishes and needs of the poor
The winner of last week’s election in Italy was a mythical beast called “Grillosconi”