Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
The Environment in 2025: News Flash, Direct from the Future!
Concerns about the environment are generally approached in one of two ways: one being about environmental catastrophes to come; the other, solutions to avoid them. It is never a good idea to live your life based on simple predictions, but all signs are pointing to the next decade being characterized by a dual trend. On one hand, an increased...
Celebrating Destruction
Everyone on the Mall near the Washington Monument was looking up at the sky. I was there, too. But I wasn’t looking up, at least not that far up. On May 8, I was playing Ultimate Frisbee during the noontime game on a stretch of level grass behind the Holocaust Museum. This time we were joined by thousands of people eager to commemorate the...
Nadiya Savchenko’s Letters from Prison, Part 4
“Bring back our girl!” (continued). This is the fourth installment of our publication of the prison writings of Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian pilot abducted by pro-Russian separatists on June 18, 2014, and held ever since in Putin’s prisons. With this installment Huffington Post/WorldPost pursues the awareness-raising campaign...
Marco Rubio Lays Out Hawkish Foreign Policy Doctrine Invoking Kennedy
NEW YORK — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) set forth a foreign policy vision Wednesday that invoked President John F. Kennedy in an assertive call to project American power abroad. In comments delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations, the conservative senator vying for the GOP presidential nomination said the world would be safer if the...
Looking Forward, Nuclear Proliferation Is Still Greatest Existential Threat We Face
As a former covert CIA operative, specializing in counter-proliferation, I still believe that the spread of nuclear weapons and the risk of their use is the greatest existential threat we face. Twenty-six years after the end of the Cold War, the world still has more than 15,000 nuclear weapons. Whatever other issues people care about —...
Nadiya Savchenko’s Letters from Prison, Part 3
This is the third installment of our publication of the prison writings of Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian pilot who was abducted by pro-Russian separatists on June 18, 2014, and who has been imprisoned since then. It is also the continuation of the campaign for her release launched by La Règle du Jeu in partnership with Kyiv Post, Ukraina...
Coming to Terms With the Past, as a Citizen, a Writer and a Human Being
“Vergangenheitsbewἄltigung” is a coinage in German that is used to mean something like “coming to terms with the past.” That is the major theme of post-World War II German literature, but, considering the effort that was expended, leading literary figures have done a remarkably poor job of it. It was an obsession of...
Securing Europe’s Future Is About Securing Our Own Future
Co-authored with Tobias Bunde, Maksymilian Czuperski and Marietje Schaake (please create separate profiles for them) After centuries of war, since 1945 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, freedom, democracy and tolerance have served as the unifying forces during the longest era of peace and prosperity on the European continent. What was once...
John Kerry Meets Putin To Gauge Flexibility On Ukraine, Syria
By Arshad Mohammed and Denis Dyomkin SOCHI, Russia, May 12 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to probe Russia’s willingness to curb its involvement in Ukraine and its backing of Syria’s president. Kerry met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for more than four hours before...
Stunning Photographs Show Crimea’s Beauty In Every Season
For photographer Sergei Anashkevitch, taking remarkable images of China, France, Tanzania and seemingly everywhere in between is just another day in the life. He posts images of his travels to his blog, “A Life In Travel,” and to his Instagram account, where he’s amassed more than 13,000 followers. But no matter where he goes,...
