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Ironies abound. While America is engaged in a bitter partisan battle during this election season over who will control the “non-partisan” U.S. Supreme Court, China�...

At this stage in the American election season it is far from clear, despite early wins and losses, who the presidential nominees will be. As Julian Baggini writes, what...

Many seem to fear the rise of China as a challenge to the West. Not Pope Francis.In a remarkable interview published this week in Asia Times, he takes the long view, tr...

The Berggruen Institute, an independent, non-partisan “think and action tank” that is co-publisher of The WorldPost, announced this week that Craig Calhoun will bec...

The tragic outcome of the Arab Spring doesn’t get any less bitter with time. The repercussions of that pan-Arab rebellion five years ago are still traumatizing the re...

As global elites gathered in Davos this week, the World Economic Forum released a daunting survey that estimates that 5 million jobs will be lost across the world in co...

Even before the “Night of Shame” on New Year’s Eve in Cologne further fueled an already fervent anti-foreigner backlash, German leaders were desperately looking t...

What lurks behind the incapacity to resolve the destabilizing crises of North Korea’s latest nuclear test and Saudi Arabia’s frontal clash with Iran are the realpol...

Day in and day out, The WorldPost chronicles two competing futures: a world coming together and a world falling apart. The year gone by has turned out to be decidedly m...

This week marked an historic milestone: More than 1 million refugees and migrants fleeing the global disorder of civil war, poverty and persecution this year landed on ...

Google and Facebook would love to operate in China, especially now that it’s officially confirmed that it has 668 million Internet users. One man stands in their way:...

To become a self-conscious “global thinking circuit,” the virtual territory of the Internet needs a map that charts the currents and connects the dots of the worldw...

The 2015 Global Thought Leaders Index, a “collective intelligence” analysis that maps the global conversation on the Internet and ranks its most influential voices,...

Whatever the final outcome, the United Nations climate summit convening in Paris is already a unique event in the history of the planet. Using the scientific tool of re...

The Turkish downing of a Russian jet that crossed into its territory while bombing targets in Syria complicates even further the play of contraries in an already bewild...
