Children should not be used as an argument for or against gay marriages
The right to adopt is a distraction in the gay marriage debate. The real discussion should be on how to build societies that treat everyone with equal dignity.
Dialogue
EU’s first state funeral: Remember the past to build the future
Kohl’s funeral showed just how far Europe has come since the division and war. His vision of peace, unity and shared identity is gradually becoming a reality.
Analogies between the Ayotzinapa disappearances and the Grenfell Tower fire
It would be hard to understand either disaster without a reference to the brutal ravages of two out-of-control markets which habitually devastate lives.
Who did you vote for?
We asked a number of voters to explain the political earthquake that shook the UK last week and to say what the opposition parties should do next.
How Europe should tackle terrorism and extremism
Building walls and sacrificing our freedoms will not make us safer. Europe’s response to terrorism should focus on cooperation, coordination and inclusion.
Theresa May and the art of political forgetting: A special way to use and abuse history
Politicians are forever legitimising their actions by co-opting history to their side, often quite cynically so.
In defence of people smugglers
The abuses and exploitation that refugees face at the hands of human traffickers fail to explain or justify the level of opprobrium in the Western media.
Migración, integración y yihadismo
- World , En Español , Dialogue
Encontrar una solución a los apuros derivados de la inmigración significa reconocer y evaluar la correlación entre los asuntos de seguridad y supervivencia inmediatas y los asuntos sociales y culturales.
Corruption is the elephant in the room
Corruption weakens economies, deepens inequality and undermines democracy. And the citizens are always left to foot the bill. It’s time to say enough is enough.
Mélenchon could be the French Bernie Sanders, and that’s not a good thing
Already 16% of Mélenchon’s voters have apparently decided that if they can’t have his version of socialism they’ll happily vote for the national variety instead.
