With Germans heading to the voting booths this Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands as the de facto, unchallenged leader of the country. Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union, is polling about 15 percent ahead of its main challenger, Social ...
The wave of anti-globalization that has overwhelmed the West over the past year has left no country untouched; political movements everywhere are questioning whether global integration should have measured “progress” for so long. Nowhere has integration gone further in the ...
Policy Pear President Lina Abisoghomyan and Glimpse From the Globe Senior Correspondent Luke Phillips sit down to discuss how Brexit affects the UK’s position in NATO, UK-US relations, and NATO cohesion. How does a post-Britain EU conceive of itself, and what ...
When a church closes its doors for the last time, it can be a gut-wrenching, emotional experience for the community. A place that once held peonies at weddings, poinsettias at Christmas time and lilies at Easter will now begin to ...
The European Union has recently taken crucial steps towards a more humane response to the ongoing refugee crisis, which, despite being a positive development, seem to endanger existing EU asylum law and border systems. It is time for EU policymakers ...
A sense of exceptionalism is bred in people of the United States, starting as early as preschool. From its very genesis, the US was a “City Upon A Hill,” an ideological beacon of light that Puritans sought to erect as ...
93-year-old Oskar Groening pushed his walker into a German court in April of this year to testify in the opening of his trial. Known by the media as the “accountant of Auschwitz,” Groening has confirmed that he collected money and goods ...
We look back upon World War II with a furrowed brow and incredulous gaze, wondering how millions of people could be led to espouse such hateful ideas, based exclusively on unsubstantiated leaps in logic, pseudo-scientific assertions, and politically-engineered ‘truisms’. How ...
On a periodic basis, several organizations administer international exams for the purpose of comparing primary and secondary students to their international counterparts. Most notable of these exams are the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), organized by the OECD, and ...