John Feffer

Far-right nationalists and neoliberal capitalists will survive the demise of institutions like the EU. What about the rest ...

Young people have been pushed to the margins in South Korea—can they transform the country's political system?

As the Paris climate deal nears implementation, the possibilities for corporate subterfuge are endless. But the real problem ...

Donald Trump and a majority of South Koreans believe that South Korea should have a nuclear weapon. Are ...

In February 2015, after a dozen years in limbo, Iraq’s National Museum reopened. But it was a bittersweet ...

A trade referendum in tiny Holland may influence the future of Ukraine, the trajectory of the EU, and ...

As the world focuses on the war in Syria, the refugee crisis in Europe, and the primary slugfest ...

Diamond-rich Botswana avoided the dreaded resource curse and established a prosperous, stable democracy—but political turmoil has begun to ...

The market was supposed to save the planet.

Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement on the "comfort women" issue that has made a lot ...

When will Korea reunify? Or is that the right question to ask?

If we continue to think about the Islamic State as a force to be fought on the battlefield, ...

There are more refugees adrift in the world today than ever before. If they formed a country, it ...

A surprising poll shows North Koreans thinking about their future in a way that is independent of their ...

Turkey’s ethnic minorities have handled the nation’s president a setback at the polls.

The classic image of the dictator clinging to power, resisting the world’s entreaties to resign, and fending off ...

Cuba and North Korea have a great deal in common. They are both led by dynastic rulers. They ...

“All happy families are alike,” Leo Tolstoy wrote at the beginning of “Anna Karenina.” “Each unhappy family is ...

For all the hands shaken and hamburgers eaten, President Obama has never quite shaken his reputation for detachment. ...

The EU needs to figure out how to make membership as vital to those on the inside as ...

After repeated “reinterpretations,” Japan’s peace constitution has become increasingly enfeebled, with the latest change nearly euthanizing the document.

The creation of the European Community was specifically meant to put to bed the national passions that gave ...

Amid floundering peace talks, Jewish artists, historians, and activists are taking an increasingly critical look at Israel's founding ...

For the second year in a row, the world is spending a little less on the military. Asia, ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization just hit 65. That’s retirement age, especially for an alliance structure that was ...

Between 1990 and 2010, according to the World Bank, the number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide was ...

The influence that the far right has right now on the interim government in Kiev is indeed worrisome. ...