The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization founded in 1909 to fight racists, now provides indulgences to them. Disgraced Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s lifetime achievement award, revoked by the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP
Britain is “killing” the European Union and should leave, according to a former Prime Minister of France. Michel Rocard, a Socialist who served under President François Mitterand, blamed Britain for all the EU’s problems and said that it is only
Gerard Schroeder, the former German chancellor whose Social Democrat party is now in coalition with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, has been pictured embracing Vladimir Putin after a party in St Petersburg. The embrace, which has attracted widespread criticism in Germany,
Germany is using drones to locate deer hiding in tall grass and protect them from farm machinery. The project, which costs €2.5 million, has the backing of the country’s agriculture ministry. The project involves deploying small aerial drones, fitted with
In the run up to next month’s European Elections, many commentators have been focusing on the rise of Eurosceptic parties across the continent. Parties such as UKIP in Britain, the Front National in France, the Party for Freedom in the
Sinn Fein, the political wing of the terrorist Provisional IRA, is emerging as “the kingpin” of Irish politics, according to the latest opinion poll taken in the run-up to the elections to the European Parliament. The party, once considered so
BERLIN, April 24 (UPI) —A new app called Peppr was launched in Germany this month to connect potential clients with nearby prostitutes using GPS. It is like a cross between the car-ordering service app Uber and the dating app Tinder.
A senior member of Germany’s Eurosceptic Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has pleaded for Britain to stay in the European Union, or else the whole Union could collapse or become a tyranny: “For me the idea that Britain could leave
If there are two things we know about the Germans it’s that they don’t have a sense of humour and that they are greener than the Jolly Green Giant’s favourite emerald St Patrick’s Day outfit. This hilarious video from a
One parody of UKIP’s recent poster that has received a lot of attention over the past 24 hours is this: Most intelligent UKIP poster parody » @DuncanStott: Check out http://t.co/JVM4LiSKyh for more info: pic.twitter.com/u2qOEGLilU — Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) April 22,
With eight million Americans enrolled in health insurance through federal and state exchanges, President Obama has declared the Affordable Care Act a success. That’s disingenuous, and big changes are needed to make the law work well. Overall, the ACA’s goals
With eight million Americans enrolled in health insurance through federal and state exchanges, President Obama has declared the Affordable Care Act a success. That is disingenuous, and big changes are needed to make the law work well. Overall, the ACA’s
Marathon Monday, atop October’s Head of the Charles Regatta and November’s even-year Harvard-Yale game, ranks as the most festive sports holiday in Massachusetts. When a couple of poor sports crashed the party last year by killing three and maiming dozens,
Edward Lucas is a senior editor at The Economist. Lucas has had a distinguished, 30+ year career covering Russian and Eastern European affairs. His most recent title, The Snowden Operation: Inside the West’s Greatest Intelligence Disaster, is available on Kindle. His
Many, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have compared what Russia is currently doing with Crimea to what Hitler’s Germany did with the Sudetenland in 1938. Although Clinton has backed off her comparison, the juxtaposition of the two is
Ayn Rand’s 1938 novella Anthem is coming to the stage complete with song and dance numbers. What better way to get the message of conservative-leaning individualism to a leftist arts culture who dreams of utopia only to wake to the creation of
Americans struggle with stagnant wages and rising prices. Yet the Federal Reserve is obsessed with boosting inflation with easy money policies that may actually discourage reforms that would help jobs creation and lessen income inequality. Over the last year, consumer
The President of the largest political grouping in the European Parliament has praised the EU for allowing young Frenchmen to access porn movies in Germany. Joseph Daul, president of the European People’s Party, which incorporates centre-right parties from most EU
Intolerance of tolerance is certainly no virtue. But bowing to pressure from the intolerant is cowardly. That is what Brandeis President Frederick Lawrence displayed when he revoked the honorary degree the university had planned to bestow on Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A project purporting to measure the number of anti-Muslim attacks in Britain exaggerated the scale of the problem, according to a report now backed up by Press Complaints Commission. Fiyaz Mughal, founder of ‘Tell Mama’, had claimed there had been
Last week saw another European Central Bank interest rate meeting in which the ECB chose to remain active in the face of inflation declining to its lowest level in 5 years. Only five years ago, the Eurozone was in the
Now that Game of Thrones has been established as a global modern classic – season four starts this evening in Britain, having premiered in the US last night – maybe it’s about time we introduced it to the school curriculum.
Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr. is the embodiment of today’s California–a whimsical figure entwined in the California legend. Governor Brown’s great grandfather emigrated to the U.S. from Germany–took a brief respite back East–and then in 1852 covered-wagoned it to Colusa
A religious sister from the highly respected Nashville Dominicans has come under attack from liberal Catholic parents and students who objected to her lecture on same-sex attraction and divorce at a Catholic high school in the Diocese of Charlotte, North
In a three-part series of outrageous invectives that seem over-the-top even for North Korean state media, the newspaper Rodong Sinmun is accusing South Korean President Park Geun-Hye of lying about their healthcare program, inflicting “malignant abuses” upon North Korea, and
