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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

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

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

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

The original scroll on which the Marquis de Sade wrote the draft of his novel on sexual depravity, murder and paedophilia “The 120 Days of Sodom” has been returned to France following years of legal wrangling. The parchment piece —

A major new poll of public perceptions of freedom across various countries shows that people in the West can often feel less free than those under tyrannical regimes. The research, conducted by GlobeScan for the BBC, shows that people in

In most cases, the humiliation of French socialist President Francois Hollande in Sunday’s final round of national local elections could mean nothing but joy for the eurosceptics among Britain’s Conservatives. The euro-enthusiast Hollande has been battered by Marine LePen’s anti-EU

Another week in which European inflation data dominated the headlines, following an unexpected slip by Spain in to deflation (down 0.2 percent), saw pressure mount on the ECB to undertake some kind of intervention- and fast- to avoid the region

The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism has Undermined the Middle Class is one of the most important books written about American politics in the past fifty years.  The author, Fred Siegel, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for

British and American intelligence have been monitoring traffic over satellite links owned by German companies, and have been targeting Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The documents, seen by German newspaper Der Spiegel, reveal that British

The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians has reported that homosexual activists in Germany attacked parents who were protesting a new “sexual diversity” curriculum in their schools. The parents felt that the new curriculum featured a pro-homosexual agenda., and

Major German industrial company Siemens voiced support for ties with Russia despite the economic and diplomatic tensions between Moscow and the West. CEO Joe Kaeser visited Russia President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow to reassure him Siemens will not

Derek Jeter is the 11th best leader in the world, according to Fortune magazine. President Barack Obama is not even in the top 50.  Pope Francis, with whom Obama met on Thursday, topped Fortune’s 2014 list of the the “world’s 50

Maybe because he’s got a guilt complex, maybe because he subconsciously hates his “staunch Conservative” father, maybe because he’s just a bit nuts, or maybe for reasons beyond our imaginations, John Mills — multi-millionaire founder of the JML shopping channel

German customs officials have intercepted a package addressed to the Vatican containing 14 condoms filled with cocaine, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Bild am Sonntag said that a box packed with 340 grammes of cocaine valued at 40,000 euros ($55,200)

During the first week of December 1944, U.S. Army private Pedro Cano, from Edinburg, Texas, on two consecutive days, crawled through minefields under heavy machine gun fire to destroy six German emplacements–saving the lives of many of his fellow soldiers.

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Kerry threatens sanctions against Russia, but ‘nothing personal’ Germany’s Angela Merkel warns of a ‘catastrophe’ and sanction war Saudi cleric issues fatwa against all-you-can-eat buffets Kerry threatens sanctions against Russia, but ‘nothing personal’ On

Today’s passing of Tony Benn ends an important chapter in British political history. Widely respected but controversial for his views, we review the best and worst 5 things about him: THE BEST 1: He opposed Ted Heath’s application to join