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A highly significant essay, “A Thousand Yes-Men Cannot Equal One Honest Advisor,“ appeared recently on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspecti...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s surprise announcement this week of a withdrawal of some forces from Syria has put an end to the narrative that Russia was bound to ...

When Justin Trudeau’s sophisticated and cosmopolitan father Pierre was prime minister in the 1970s and early 1980s, Canada’s brand became synonymous with an open, l...

Could it be that the ‘Persian Spring,’ manifested by the anti-hard-line vote this week in which over 60 percent of Iran’s eligible electorate went to the polls, h...

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:...
