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Last month, CNN released video footage of Brahim Abdeslam and his younger brother Salah dancing in a nightclub alongside a blonde woman, with whom Brahim, the report claimed, was flirting. “This was life before Isis,” the voiceover to the report says...

After the Supreme Court’s landmark gay marriage decision, can a constitutional right to plural marriage be far behind? It seemed that way in 2013, when a federal district court in Utah followed the Supreme Court ruling by striking down part of the st...

As the behind-the-scenes battle for delegates between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz intensifies and devolves into nastiness, Democrats are laying the groundwork to capitalise on the scenes of chaos that seem likely to erupt at a contested GOP convention ...

When I was a single mother in my early 20s, reality was routinely choosing between buying diapers or buying food, and struggling to find sitters to watch my infant son while I tried to get a job that would feed us and keep a roof over our heads — eve...

Europe is gearing up for a summer of discontent. There’s the British referendum on European Union membership, a simmering refugee crisis and an increasingly desperate European Central Bank. Taken together, this list gives reason enough to be fearful...

There is hardly anyone in the world by now who is unfamiliar with the affable, down-to-earth, conspicuously humble persona projected by Pope Francis. His style of governance, however, is a far cry from this carefully cultivated public image. Influenc...

Lawyers for al-Jazeera filed a motion on Friday to dismiss the defamation suits filed in early January by two Major League Baseball players over the network’s late December investigative story on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional...

The revelations about offshore accounts contained in the so-called Panama Papers are sensational, but they are unlikely to put an end to these tax havens favoured by the world’s rich and powerful. Rather, the disclosures are a reminder that these she...

The primary abusers of the offshore financial system are onshore individuals and entities. Therefore, the problem lies onshore and it is the onshore regulators’ responsibility to monitor and hold their citizens and companies accountable — they are th...

The Court of Appeal has recently confirmed in the case of the Minister of Home Affairs v Williams that people who belong to Bermuda under the Constitution cannot be treated differently to Bermudians in terms of work-permit restrictions. Belongers in...