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The invention of the flush toilet was probably one of the most unsustainable innovations in human history.
Colombia’s plan to turn coca-leaf farmers into coffee growers has a fatal flaw: the market.
The integration of Turkey into the European Union could have embodied a counter-discourse to the so-called ‘Clash of Civilisations’. Perhaps it is not too late.
Can social media create opportunities to identify and challenge government pitfalls and problematic policies?
Today young people are the first victims of the increasing job insecurity in the world. Can a universal basic income, as proposed by a number of politicians, change things for the better?
A suicide in Tijuana casts bleak light on the trauma that undocumented immigrants face in Donald Trump’s America.
Myanmar’s Rohingya issue has become a full-blown humanitarian crisis that affects all of southeast Asia. ASEAN nations would do well do move beyond their non-interference policy and help.
EU leaders will breathe a sigh of relief after the centre-right saw off the populist threat.
The world’s biggest desert used to be green, lush and full of hippos. A new theory suggests humans could have tipped the environment over the edge.
Some deride a Carnival trend in which women revel in the streets wearing swimsuits and feather boas. But to feminists, ‘bikini mas’ is a highly political act.
After a short suspension of anti-drug operations, President Rodrigo Duterte has resumed his bloody war.
Single-issue parties and inflammatory rhetoric are causing extreme fragmentation in Dutch politics.
In north-east India, children of the Khasi Hills (Meghalaya) learn slash and burn cultivation, an intergenerational yet controversial indigenous practice.
Proponents of inward-looking politics have demonstrated an impressive capacity to exploit the globalisation of the political sphere.
A recent spat between Turkey and the Netherlands reveals how Dutch-Turks are badly served by politics.
Dutch populism goes back much further than Trump, Brexit or even Geert Wilders.
Venezuelans, fleeing hunger and repression at home, have surpassed Central Americans as the top US asylum-seekers.
Pakistani pulp fiction often portrays Hindu characters as evil demons and Muslims as heroes, an attempt to spread nationalist ideology.
Delays in setting up disarmament camps for former guerillas have cast doubt on the Colombian government’s commitment to peace. But the real problem is its national history.
Thanks to foreign backing, social impact start-ups led by young entrepreneurs are flourishing in North Africa.
Is organic produce better for you? Can organic farming feed the world? Those might be the wrong questions.
Viral hepatitis sheds light on key challenges faced by health system in Africa and how social and culture factors can help in prevention.
Although the uprising in Syria will mark its sixth anniversary this month, the Syrian war has far from run its course.
Since the 1970s, several Asian countries, such as China, Japan, and South Korea, have strongly increased their influence in the Olympic movement.