Author: Colman

The reaction to the latest proposal aimed at defusing the row between Iran and the US over Iran’s nuclear intentions has been greeted positively by the Iranians. Incentives aimed at persuading Iran to halt sensitive atomic...

At least not in the way being pushed by the right. One of the key justifications, that I am still hearing, for strong action against Iran is that the President said that Israel must be wiped from the face of the earth. The...

Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for the London Financial Times, which is the newspaper of choice for the European economic elite, is concerned about the “new gilded age” in the US: Between 1997 and 2001, the...

Current political discourse is dominated by Freedom: it forms the foundational myth of the US and it’s being exported to the world – apparently the US has excess supply. The neo-liberal reform programme in Europe is...

As he desperately pushes his new book and tries to distance himself and his crazy theories from the debacle in Iraq, Francis Fukuyama is warning Europeans not to enjoy the smug feeling of schadenfreude that is so hard to avoid...