Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
The World Is Not As Bad As We Think, Says Harvard Psychologist
The scientist, psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker recently spoke with the Berggruen Institute’s Alex Gorlach at Harvard University, where Pinker teaches in the department of psychology. He is most well-known for his 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. His forthcoming book is on “the new enlightenment.”...
Shirtless Justin Trudeau Spotted Emerging From Cave, Photobombing Wedding
Canada is well known for its breathtaking nature ― and, increasingly, for its prime minister’s propensity to go shirtless.PM Justin Trudeau is causing quite a stir after being caught running around without a shirt twice in recent weeks. (Eat your heart out, President Putin).The 44-year-old politician was most recently snapped standing...
This Is What NATO Is Up To As Donald Trump Threatens To Destroy It
WASHINGTON ― While one of the two top contenders for the presidency of the United States has spent weeks exploring ways to throw America’s allies under the bus, the U.S.’s most important international partnership, the NATO alliance, has been hard at work.NATO held its latest major summit in July, a few days before Republican...
It’s Time for Armenia’s Leader to Go
Image: Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan. Public Domain YEREVAN, Armenia — The bloody siege of a police station in Armenia is over, with President Serzh Sargsyan’s administration prevailing against the station’s 32 fringe-party occupiers. But the depth of public anger that surfaced in street demonstrations supporting the...
There Should Be A Global Debate On Gun Violence
I have spent most of this summer in Europe, during one of the most volatile periods I can remember. In only the past several weeks, gun violence and terrorism have hit Orlando, Dallas, Baton Rouge, Nice and Munich. In the US, the continued violence has reignited the crucial debate and search for an explanation on the specific cause of our...
Murder, Love, And A Black Widow: The Mysterious Case Of Pavel Sheremet
July 22, 2016 — the day that journalist Pavel Sheremet came home. Thousands lined up to see him in his hometown of Minsk, Belarus — for the last time. Two days earlier, Sheremet was killed in a car bombing in Kiev. The New York Times reported: Another Russian journalist falls. On the surface, his story is not uncommon. Let’s...
Europe’s Pseudo-Solidarité
As the tug-o-war pulling apart Europe’s political, social and economic cohesion plays out on the fringes — with the improbable Brexit vote on one side and the failed coup in Turkey on the other — forced solidarity is being called into question by an increasing number of once loyal countries. The once minuscule cracks in the...
The DNC Hack Is Just One Instance of the Kremlin Meddling in Western Politics
MOSCOW — The Democratic National Convention was in scandal last week after WikiLeaks released thousands of hacked emails between DNC members, showing what many believed to be corruption in the party’s inner workings. The leak led to the resignation of the party’s chairwoman and a lot of bad press for Hillary Clinton, but while...
Trump Pushed For GOP To Change Ukraine Position, Now Claims He Didn’t
WASHINGTON ― Both Donald Trump and his campaign chairman said Sunday they had nothing to do with altering the Republican Party’s position on Ukraine ― which must have been news to GOP leaders who confirmed last week that Trump’s campaign insisted on exactly that change.The modified party platform drops its call to provide arms to...
It Appears Donald Trump Doesn’t Know About The Crimea Annexation Or Doesn’t Care
Donald Trump appears either unfamiliar with Russia’s annexation of Crimea or directly supportive of the intrusion that began in the winter of 2014, further chilled U.S.-Russian relations and has left thousands dead. In a conversation about Trump’s nebulous relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview with...
