from the Guardian

Yesterday's gathering was by far the largest civil liberties convention ever held in Britain and it was held a day after a leading UN hu...

The intriguing thing is whether the recession could lead to a sea change in attitudes to poverty. As a million people lose their jobs throug...

Shareholders are called to assemblies to elect a new CEO. The shareholders of Israel settled for choosing the directors, who agree on nothin...

"I'd be talking to people like you only if I'm armed with a baton." from Haaretz.com

It takes an extraordinarily heartless conman to swindle a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and Nobel Peace Prize winner out of all his ...

People buy gold when they are nervous about the economy, and they are right to do so because gold is a unique commodity. It has to a high de...

It is not only Mill but his biographers, and many scholars as well, who have been loathe to recognize that Mill's 35...

In 1667, the Dutch traded Manhattan for the island of Run, described by David Quammen as "the world’s most inconspicuous yet eloquent s...

Amelio has tried to do moral cinema, a difficult task anywhere. He's done it for four decades with actors like Lo Verso and Volonté (an...