How To Be Alone In Our Techno-Consumer Culture: A Conversation With Jonathan...
Jonathan Franzen is a novelist and author of "Freedom" and "The Corrections" He spoke with Nathan Gardels, editor of The WorldPost, about his most recent book, "The Kraus Project." WORLDPOST: As you...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson's SodaStream Controversy May Leave Her Caught In An...
(RNS) In the run-up to the Super Bowl, advertisers work hard to get their money’s worth, even before their spot has run. They leak teasers and hype the stars who will appear in them. If they can find a...
View ArticleAfrican Anglican Church's Stance On Gay Rights Is Seriously At Odds With...
(RNS) Ahead of his five-day visit to Africa, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby issued a statement reminding Anglicans of the commitment the Church of England made eight years ago to the pastoral...
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Guatemala: The Quest for Justice
Guatemala is one of the world's most violent countries. Over the past half century, it has endured a 36-year civil war, a genocide and a huge, ongoing wave of organized crime and drug trafficking....
View ArticleUkraine: Police Attacked Dozens of Journalists, Medics
(Kiev) – Ukrainian police assaulted and injured dozens of journalists and medical workers while trying to disperse street fighters and protesters in Kiev from January 19 to 22, 2014. Ukraine’s...
View ArticleIt's All About History
For the three key nations of East Asia to move forward, Japan must confront its modern history. The American reaction to the escalating tension in East Asia has been a mix of befuddlement and...
View ArticleWomen Presidents Outperform Their Male Counterparts in Complex Economies
This post was co-authored with Susan Perkins, Assistant Professor of International Business and Markets at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and Katherine Phillips, the Paul...
View ArticleU.S. Assassination Program in Colombia & Why We Are Learning of This Now
On December 21, 2013, The Washington Post published a story entitled, "Covert action Colombia," about the intimate and critical role of the CIA and the NSA in helping to assassinate "at least two...
View ArticleLack of Women at Davos Reflects the Gender Gap in Global Leadership
As world leaders met on a global stage for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this past week, it wasn't hard to notice that something was missing. Women make up half of our planet's...
View ArticleAlleged Cartel Leader's Son Captured By Mexican Troops
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican soldiers and marines captured the son of the alleged leader of a drug cartel during a raid Thursday near the western city of Guadalajara. Monte Alejandro Rubido Garcia,...
View ArticleWorld Leaders Line Up To Meet With Fidel Castro
HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro has lived mostly out of the public eye since a near-fatal illness in 2006 forced his retirement after nearly five decades at the helm of Cuba. This week he had his busiest...
View ArticleHonduras: The Secrecy Law
When the National Congress, under the leadership of Juan Orlando Hernández, arbitrarily voted on December 12, 2012 to dismiss four of the 15 Supreme Court justices (Gustavo Enrique Bustillo Palma,...
View ArticleThe U.S. Role in Iraq's Upsurge of Violence
Originally posted in the Jan 31-Feb 13, 2014 edition of the National Catholic Reporter. The tragic upsurge of violence in Iraq in recent months, including the takeover of sections of two major Iraqi...
View ArticleA Stronger Civic Alliance for New Europe
There are certainly many plausible reasons to conceive of the current situation in the EU as the critical juncture, at which failures of the past come to the surface and, in the meantime, very few...
View ArticleDeciphering the Ambiguities of U.S. Strategy Towards Al Qaeda and the...
Judging by recent statements and actions, President Obama might be concerned by the unparalleled proliferation of Al Qaeda, but he's hardly alarmed that it has become a rallying cry for Jihadi...
View ArticleHabitat For Humanity To Build More Than 800 Homes In The Philippines
Habitat for Humanity has pledged to build more than 800 homes in the area hardest hit by Typhoon Haiyan, the organization announced earlier this month. More than 1 million homes were damaged or...
View ArticleHow Is Technology Driving Job Creation In Poor Countries?
As the old wisdom goes, if you lost your job you could blame two suspects: cheap labor in the developing world or computers. Of course, it is a truism that technological change causes disruption in...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup
The WorldPost got off to a running start with our launch high in the Alps last week in Davos, Switzerland. Our content in these early days has been true to our aspiration to create a site where the...
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Dear Indian Media, Please Stop Calling the Kettle Black
I woke up the other day to a photo from a friend who lives in north India. It was a headline from The Times of India, and it read in thick bold font "One in five women raped in US"; it was an eye...
View ArticleIran Occupies Center Stage at Davos But Finds Itself Under the Microscope
A lot of things happen behind the scenes in Davos, in parallel with the official program of the World Economic Forum (WEF), traditionally attended by more than 40 heads of state and government. The...
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