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Do Spain and Portugal Finally Share a Destiny?
Madrid, Spain - In his novel “The Stone Raft,” Portugal’s Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago imagines the Iberian Peninsula breaking away from mainland Europe and drifting off into the …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Can Democrats “Up Their Game”?
Washington - From Ohio, Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy describes “the worry, the anguish and sometimes despair” among her constituents and urges President Obama to spend more time with people …
Sen. Bernie Sanders | “Today in America We Have the Most Unequal Distribution of Wealth Since the Great Depression!” (VIDEO)
Outline Emerges of Deal to Extend Tax Cuts, Jobless Insurance
Leading senators from both parties on Sunday sketched the broad outline of a compromise to extend the expiring Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans in exchange for another extension …
The Green Economy Is Here and It Ain’t Pretty
Many of us have long advocated a green economy where jobs were generated in sectors like alternative energy and recycling. It was our hope that this economy could be …
Sudan Pulls Apart
GlobalPost Editor's note: “Divided they stand” is a three-part series on Sudan, covering the lead-up to January's referendum vote on the South's independence, the divisions that already split the …
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Arrested in London on Sex-Related Charges
Julian Assange, editor in chief of WikiLeaks, was arrested Tuesday morning in London on rape charges from Sweden, adding a new wrinkle to the ongoing furor over WikiLeaks' controversial …
Crocodile Tears
Privacy Is Passe, So Broadcast Yourself (to Big Brother)
"You had to live – you did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every …
Phlogiston Economics: The Need to Dispel the Free Hand and Create Jobs Instead
We can laugh now at phlogiston theory – the 17th century idea that all materials that could be burnt contained phlogiston, an odorless, colorless substance. The concept seemed sound, …