JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 3, 2015. There is no shortage of villains in this Greek tragedy. Indeed, what is really challenging is to point to someone in Greece or anyone who has inhabited the upper echelons of the European Union in the
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS July 2015 As a quartet, they went by the rather cumbersome stage name of “The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.” They moved from Ireland to America in their 20s to try and make their living as actors, and
The world is holding its breath with Greece on the knife-edge deadline on its €1.6 billion loan repayment due to the IMF. its stalemate with its international creditors, and upcoming referendum, could make Greece the first advanced economy to default to the fund in its
DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE June, 2015 “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian,” Paul McCartney famously said. There are no walls in the alleys that served as slaughterhouses in Yulin, China. Yulin celebrated its annual Dog Meat Festival in
JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 26, 2015 After more than half a century as one of the few pillars of stability in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is rapidly morphing into a dangerous and unpredictable rogue elephant. The transformation has accelerated since, six
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Here is F&O’s lineup of good reads, for your weekend lingering, or to launch the new week with information that matters. New Reports: Pope Francis throws down the gauntlet On eve of encyclical, Pope Francis appeals for “our ruined” planet. Our package
JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 19, 2015 The campaign for and against democracy in Hong Kong has tottered on the edge of farce for some time and this week it tumbled over the edge. Thursday’s vote in the Hong Kong legislature on plans
By Penney Kome June, 2015 “Mom, I want braids,” I said one day, as we walked home from my kindergarten to our apartment on the South Side of Chicago. “All the girls in school have braids. I want braids.” “Don’t you like your hair
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS June, 2015 At age 18, Debbie Lori Kaye became the youngest performer in history to have her own variety special on CBC TV. A tiny singer with a big voice, her star had been rising steadily for four
