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Debating the merits of the Third Reich; The thugs who won’t go away
feature Debating the merits of the Third Reich; The thugs who won’t go away
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A case based on wild theories
feature Amanda Knox, an American student in Italy accused of murder, may be the victim of a wacky conspiracy theorist, said Peter Popham in The Independent (U.K.).
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Turkey: Exposing a shadowy cabal of nationalists
feature Turkey has put some of its most prominent citizens on trial for allegedly belonging to a secret cabal of ultranationalists—known as Ergenekon—that has been undermining the country’s democracy for decades.
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Britain: Members of Parliament abuse expense accounts
feature The British are enraged by the expenses claimed by members of Parliament, details of which were leaked to the Daily Telegraph by a whistleblower.
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Germany: A growing gap between rich and poor
feature According to a report published in Germany, the gap between rich and poor has widened sharply over the past decade.
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Italy: One sex scandal too many for Berlusconi?
feature Italians are becoming fed up with Silvio Berlusconi's sexual antics.
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United Kingdom: Exposing the lies of Bush’s poodle
feature The British government inquiry into the launching of the Iraq war “threatens the gilded new life of multimillionaire Tony Blair,” said Peter McKay in The Daily Mail.
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France: Why banning the burqa won’t work
feature I agree that the burqa is a symbol of fundamentalist oppression of women, but let’s just consider how a ban on the burqa would be enforced, said Gilbert Collard in France Soir.
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Italy: Has Berlusconi finally gone too far?
feature The wife of the 73-year-old Italian prime minister touched off a scandal when she revealed her husband's relationship with an 18-year-old aspiring model.
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Ireland: Blurring the meaning of ‘alcoholic’
feature The push to relabel alcoholism as “alcohol dependence” threatens to water down the term until it loses its kick, said Declan Lynch in the Irish Independent.
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United Kingdom: Tabloid journalism gone wild
feature Are the Guardian, the BBC, and The Labor Party milking the scandal over the sleazy reporting tactics of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World?
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Switzerland: Shamed into accepting an Iraqi refugee
feature The Justice Minister of Switzerland intervened at the last moment to cancel the deportation of Fahad K., an Iraqi who worked as a translator for the U.S. Army in Baghdad and starred in a movie about Switzerland's poor treatment of refugees.
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Northern Ireland: Refusing to let the terrorists win
feature Both of the main parties in Northern Ireland's power-sharing government condemned the murders of two British soldiers and one police officer by IRA splinter groups.
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Britain: Where children are a low priority
feature A report in Britain, A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age, has ignited a debate over the state of child rearing.
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