Oscar victory spotlights Pakistan’s grim culture of violence

When "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" won the 2016 Oscar for best short-subject documentary, the film and its director, Pakistani-born Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, were understandably feted on social media. Obaid-Chinoy's victory was seen as a triumph for women, South Asia and the power of cinema. The documentary details the harrowing story of […]











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France’s most famous intellectual urges Jews not to leave

There is no American equivalent of Bernard-Henri Lévy. Known as “BHL,” he is among the last of a quintessentially French breed, the 20th century intellectuel engagé. As a “nouveau philosophe” disenchanted with Marxism, communism and the excesses of 1968, when civil unrest roiled France, Levy has enjoyed a long and theatrical career since the 1970s, […]











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The many ways Canada’s Trudeau is the anti-Trump

For some, the improbable presidential candidacy of Donald Trump stopped being funny long ago. Republican eminences and custodians of the establishment gawk at the GOP front-runner's  belligerent braggadocio, his irreverent attacks on party grandees, his far-fetched proposals, his aversion to substance or basic facts, and his not even thinly veiled bigotry. And yet, Trump stands on the cusp of winning the Republican […]











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China’s ‘Donald Trump’ silenced: latest crackdown sparks fear — and mockery

You like potato, I like potahto. But if the Communist Party tells us to call it a radish, then a radish it is. China’s war on free speech -- and the silencing of an influential real estate tycoon who some have nicknamed China’s “Donald Trump” for his outspoken views – has sparked some dark humor […]











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North Korea’s recipe for bargaining: detained Westerner, script, TV cameras

These are some of the previous cases of strange confessions by detained Americans – which have been explained after their release.











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‘Senile granny’ is just one of the bad names bestowed upon female world leaders

It's hard out there for a female head of state.











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